"Confessions of an ink-stained wretch: My life in the newsroom" Lecture

From 1974 until 2008, Dick Rogers was a reporter and editor at small, medium and large newspapers. In that span, he covered everything from small town pancake fund-raisers to courtroom dramas to scientific developments at the Lawrence Livermore Lab. At his retirement he was the San Francisco Chronicle's ombudsman, a combination human lightning rod for reader complaints and internal affairs officer. Since then, a seismic shift rocked the news world. Today commuters no longer stare into newspapers on their BART and Caltrain rides. Instead they hold smart phones, perhaps following the day's events, or maybe just listening to their favorite tunes. Thousands of newspapers across the country disappeared, creating vast "news deserts." More than 40,000 newsroom jobs have been lost. Yet against those odds, the soul of journalism persists.

This Lecture will be hosted at MOAH’s Livermore Learning Center, located at 351 Homer Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94301. $10 for Non-Members, Free for MOAH Members.

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