Open Photojournalism Education Network

Live webinar with BAG NEWS NOTES on Egypt's 18 day Revolution Date: March 20th Time: 17.00 GMT

Event Details

Time: March 20, 2011 from 5pm to 7pm
Location: Wimba
Website or Map: http://uoartslive.wimba.com/l…
Event Type: webinar
Organized By: OPEN-i
Latest Activity: Mar 20, 2011

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Event Description

Assignment Egypt: Analyzing News Photos from the 18 day Revolution

Date: March 20th

Time: 10.00 am PST, 13.00 pm EST, 17.00GMT/ London, 19.00 pm Cairo

An invited panel will discuss the images from the recent events in Egypt. Participants include

David Campbell, Lecturer, Researcher, Producer, Multimedia and Photojournalism

Michelle Woodward, Photo Editor, Middle East Report

David Degner, photographer, Cairo

Loret Steinberg, Professor of Photojournalism and Documentary Photography/R.I.T. – BagNews Consultant

Nathan Stormer, moderator - Professor of Communications and Journalism/U. of Maine

Michael Shaw, Publisher, BagNews

Ida Benedetto, Producer, BagNewsSalon

Laura El-Tantawy photographer, Cairo

About BagNewsSalon:

The BagNewsSalon is dedicated to understanding how the visual media frames the key social and political events of the day. The Salon brings together the world's leading photojournalists, visual academics and other informed observers to analyze select edits of still news and political images in a 90 minute on-line discussion format.

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