ADVISORY/National Federation of Press Women to Feature Prominent Speakers at Annual Conference September 4 - 6 in Wilmington, Delaware.Business Editors/Calendar Editors ADVISORY...For Thursday (Sept. 4 - 6) WILMINGTON, Del.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 28, 2003 The National Federation of Press Women will hold its annual conference, "Brave New Media World," at the Wyndham Hotel in Wilmington, Delaware Wilmington is the largest city in the state of Delaware and is located at the confluence of the Christina River and Brandywine Creek, near where the Christina flows into the Delaware River. , from September 4 - 6, 2003. Wilmington will be home to media and communications professionals from throughout the United States as the Delaware Press Association, an affiliate of the National Federation of Press Women, hosts the 2003 NFPW NFPW National Federation of Press Women NFPW National Fire Prevention Week Communications Conference. For more information about the conference, go to www.DelawarePressAssociation.org. Jim Axelrod, a CBS News correspondent who was embedded with the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry in Iraq, will be the keynote speaker Friday, September 5. Mr. Axelrod will present "Shocked and Awed: A Journalist's Reflections of Life on the Front" from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. The session is open to the public free of charge. (Mr. Axelrod replaces the previously scheduled keynote speaker, Judith Miller of The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times.) Other conference speakers include U.S. Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D-Del.), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, "Foreign Relations and the Media: Are We Well Enough Informed?"; Ralph Begleiter, former CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. world affairs correspondent and Distinguished Journalist in Residence at the University of Delaware [3] The student body at the University of Delaware is largely an undergraduate population. Delaware students have a great deal of access to work and internship opportunities. , "The Era of Media Globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation "; and Jim Bohannon, Westwood One national radio talk show host, "Talk Radio Today." NFPW is a membership organization of professional journalists and communicators, headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. For more than 65 years, NFPW has promoted the highest ethical standards while fostering professional development, networking, and protection of First Amendment rights. For more information about NFPW, go to www.nfpw.org or contact Carol Pierce, executive director, (800) 780-2715 or presswomen@aol.com. The 2003 NFPW Communications Conference is sponsored by Business Wire, Community Publications, Inc., Delaware Today, HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber. Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy , Morgan Stanley and The News Journal. Mr. Axelrod's presentation is partially underwritten by a grant from the Delaware Humanities Forum, a state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) U.S. independent agency. Founded in 1965, it supports research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities. .
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WHO: NFPW members, non-member allied professionals, general public
(keynote session only)
WHAT: 2003 NFPW "Brave New Media World" Communications Conference
WHEN: September 4 - 6, 2003
WHERE: Wyndham Hotel, 700 King Street, Wilmington, Delaware
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