“Public Accountability After the Age of Newspapers” with Paul Starr + Martin Baron + Dan Kennedy

Ford Hall Forum

A roundtable of media vets will really give you something to tweet about, when they gather for “Public Accountability After the Age of Newspapers” to discuss the fate of public responsibility and the decline in journalistic integrity as newspapers (you remember those) rapidly become more and more irrelevant. Three speakers -- Paul Starr, co-editor of The American Prospect, Boston Globe editor Martin Baron, and former Phoenix scribe/media blogger Dan Kennedy -- will hash out the possibility of dark days ahead: when social media sites, blogs, and, yes, that all-encompassing outage-prone thought-blip beast Twitter will provide the lion’s share of the world’s news consumption. Frogs will fall from the heavens and the Charles will run red with the blood of journalists past, but perhaps some shred of public responsibility will endure. Or at least that's what we hope to hear, at Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University, 120 Tremont St., Boston | 6:30-8 pm | www.fordhallforum.org.

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