Delaware Chapter

The Future of News

Join us for a luncheon program where you'll hear insider thoughts on today's news media from David Ledford, vice president/news and executive editor of The News Journal.

You’ll walk away informed about:

• Watchdog reporting—it’s the fuel that will sustain media companies in the future, and the best institutions will invest in it.
• How successful media companies are making their content available to readers whenever and wherever readers want to consume it.
• The qualifications for today’s reporters—technological savvy and solid, sophisticated journalism skills.

David Ledford has served as vice president/news & executive editor of The News Journal in Wilmington, DE, since March, 2004. The News Journal is the eighth newspaper at which Ledford has served.

David began his career as an intern at the Lewiston Morning Tribune (Lewiston, Idaho) in 1979 while earning a bachelor’s degree in English. After graduation in 1980, he moved to the Daily News, which covers the university communities of Moscow, Idaho and Pullman, Wash., where he worked as a reporter one year before moving to The Spokesman-Review in Spokane as a roving reporter, and ultimately a projects reporter. In 1985, Ledford returned to the Daily News as managing editor. In 1989, he moved to the East Coast to become city editor of The Trentonian in Trenton, N.J. Less than two years later, in 1991, he returned to the West, becoming deputy editor of the Salt Lake Tribune, where he served until 1998. That year he joined Gannett and moved to Sioux Falls, S.D., to become executive editor of the Argus Leader. In 2001 David took the top editor’s job at the News-Leader in Springfield, Mo. And in March 2004, he moved to his current post in Wilmington.

He has spoken at several National Writers’ Workshops around the country sponsored by newspapers and the Poynter Institute, at API conferences and at Freedom Forum workshops. He is also a past president of the Associated Press Managing Editors group.

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Tues., March 23, 2010
11:30 a.m.
registration
Noon - 1 p.m. lunch/program

Hilton Wilmington/Christiana
100 Continental Drive
Newark, Delaware

$30 members
$35 non-members

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