FTC Posts Future of Journalism Discussion Draft, Announces Third Workshop

The Federal Trade Commission announced yesterday that it has scheduled a third and final workshop on the Future of Journalism at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on June 15, 2010. Information about the FTC’s workshop series on the Future of Journalism is available on the project website at http://ftc.gov/opp/workshops/news/index.shtml. The workshop will be webcast.

Although the FTC has not yet posted an agenda, the commission has indicated that the workshop will include

…a small group of experienced journalists, publishers, academics, economists, and other policy experts [who] will compare, contrast, and evaluate the ideas for sustaining journalism that have been set forth in two previous FTC workshops and in a wide variety of reports and conferences. This discussion will help inform potential recommendations to be contained in a report the FTC will release later this fall.

In preparation for this meeting, the FTC has posted a Staff Discussion Draft of Potential Policy Recommendations to Support the Revinvention of Journalism. The public may submit comments on this draft to the FTC at http://public.commentworks.com/ftc/newsmediaworkshop.