Invited Seminar for the Society of Professional Journalists National Convention to Focus on Educating the Media to Anticipate and Ask: `The Next Logical Question'

Journalists Will Explore How to Decipher: Disinformation, Divergence, and Double-Speak


MEDIA ADVISORY, Sept. 12, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- Invited Seminar for the Society of Professional Journalists National Convention to Focus on Educating the Media to Anticipate and Ask "The Next Logical Question."


 WHAT: The Society of Professional Journalists will hold its National
       Convention in Tampa, Florida September 11 - 13, 2003.
       Journalists from around the country meet to experience 
       opportunities for professional development.  The society is 
       committed to offering cutting edge educational programs for its
       members that push the envelope to produce better critical 
       thinking processes and outcomes.

       In this day and age when spokespersons for industry and
       government are trained in spin, obfuscation, double-speak,
       misinformation, and even disinformation, the job of the 
       professional journalist is made even harder.  There is a need
       to understand and decipher these tactics.  There is a need to
       be prepared to respond through asking the next logical 
       question.  Skills-based information gathering techniques are
       useful in accomplishing this goal.  Dr. Saul Wilen will present
       a professional development seminar for journalists to introduce
       them to the next logical question process and to show the
       usefulness of skills-based information gathering in order to
       formulate incisive questions.

       Saul B. Wilen is the President and CEO of International
       Horizons Unlimited (www.intlhorizons.com, (210) 692-1268), a
       national consulting and resources consortium, which utilizes
       "educational foundations and processes that support prevention
       strategies to solve problems."  Dr. Wilen's background is in
       political science, education, and medicine, and he is a
       recognized authority in prevention strategies, problem solving,
       systems dynamics, and informatics.  
 
 WHEN:    Saturday, September 13, 2003
          2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
 
 WHERE:   Hyatt Regency Tampa
          Esplanade 1


            

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