July 17 (Tuesday) *7:00 PM (Free)* ILWU Local 34 -*801 2nd St. next to the AT&T Ball Park, SF * Journalists, Journalism, Labor and New Media *Thousands of professional journalists have faced layoffs throughout the United States. At the same time there are only a handful of labor journalists left at major daily papers in the United Sates. Journalists are being pressured to work for free as bloggers and the campaign against Ariana Huffington and Huff Post was an example of a political campaign to highlight the plight of journalists in the new media. At the same time, labor does not even have a labor radio or TV channel that could broadcast 24 hours a day from the picket line, and the life and death struggles that working people are facing. This panel will also look at the attacks on journalists by corporate America, the censoring of labor stories and the transformation of the newspaper and news industry by the Internet. What does this mean for the future of professional journalists and the relationship of organized labor to the defense of journalists and journalism? Speakers: *Frank Emspak*, Founder of Workers Independent News (WIN), Madison, Wisconsin *Bill Snyder*, Vice Chair, Pacific Media Workers Guild Freelancers Unit,CWA 39521 *Steve Early*, Labor Journalist *Dick Meister*, Labor journalist formerly with SF Chronicle & KQED Newsroom *Larry Goldbetter*, President, National Writers Union/UAW Local 1981 Sponsored by Labor Video Project, CWA-TNG Local 39521/Pacific Media Workers www. laborvideo.org <http://www.%20laborvideo.org/> www.labortech.net