Agenda and Breakout Sessions
| 8:00 a.m. |
Registration Coffee and tea, meet and greet |
| 8:45 a.m. |
Moderator Presentation Agenda for the day Objectives for the day, and for long range |
| 9:00 a.m. |
Keynote Speaker Newsman Steven A. Smith The problems faced by metropolitan Portland Questions and Answers from conference participants |
| 9:45 a.m. |
Panel Discussion What other communities are doing Possible solutions in the public interest in Portland area |
| 11:30 a.m. |
Facilitated Break-out Sessions Participants will divide into breakout sessions and present their findings to the conference at the end of the session. Box lunches will be provided during the sessions. |
| 1:30 p.m. |
Plenary Session, Part I Participants will give 5-minute reports per breakout session, including recommendations, planning guidelines, and barriers to overcome. |
| 2:45 to 3:00 p.m. |
Break |
| 3:00 p.m. |
Plenary Session, Part II All participants democratically accept, reject or modify recommendations and planning guidelines from break-out groups. Moderator combines or eliminates break-out sessions into Ongoing Working Groups. |
| 4:30 to 5:00 p.m. |
Ongoing Working Group Meetings Ongoing Working Groups meet to make assignments and plans to meet again |
Breakout Sessions
The facilitated breakout sessions will generate ideas for:
- An over-arching nonprofit that seeks grants and individual subscriptions, and supports a team of local investigative journalists that provides indepth enterprise journalism.
New nonprofit organization - A local news internet site that reports local news and is owned by the non-profit. The site will also index and archive video, audio, and background information.
New internet news site - A cable TV news channel that does real reporting about Metro Portland – including a community forum show, two hours of real news nightly, special shows on local business and the economy, and on local arts and entertainment. Linked to the local news internet site.
Local cable news program - Topic site modules, which are independent sites, but funded in part by, and connected to, the nonprofit. A network of local topic-specific websites -- the arts, the economy, politics, health, education, science, etc.
Small team nonprofit network - Innovative revenue models for this nonprofit, ranging from foundation grants to individual subscriptions, to sale of Internet advertising, to a new, single-article payment scheme. -- a customer-supported open source software system, allowing providers to charge whatever they wish. This new revenue source for our local journalism could also be promoted as a universal payment system for journalism on the Internet, plus a custom bundled weekly e-mail package and syndication of original articles.
Revenue models for an online news site - Expanded OPB's local reporting, including investigative reporting, for radio, and OPB’s website. Conceivably, OPB could become the over-arching community-based nonprofit, driving all of the ideas suggested above.
Expand OPB's news organization - New Strategies, including, but not limited to, a press council, improved civics education, citizen journalism, and lobbying for neutral government subsidies for investigative journalism. A place to put your own new idea forward.