November 10, 2010
Location: Melville Marriott
1350 Old Walt Whitman Road
Melville, NY
5:30PM - 7:30PM
The intractable John Kominicki, publisher of Long Island Business News, and Dr. Robert Papper, chair of Hofstra University's School of Journalism, will go head to head on the topic of how news gets reported in the 21st century. Don't miss the face off of these two intellects and great wits, as Bob fires the questions and John takes the hot seat! Let the fun commence!
John L. Kominicki is president and publisher of Long Island Business News and director of editorial operations for the firm’s corporate parent, Dolan Media Co.
Before coming to Long Island, John ran business newspapers in Fort Worth, Texas and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Prior to joining the business side of publishing, he was a longtime writer and editor for such publications as European Stars and Stripes, the New York Times, USA Today, and the Dallas Morning News, among others.
Mr. Kominicki serves on a variety of local boards, including the Long Island Association, the Long Island Business Development Council and LISTnet. He has been named an advocate for small business by the Small Business Administration and was honored as a Distinguished Citizen by Dowling College, from which he received an honorary doctorate of humane letters. In June 2008, the Press Club of Long Island presented Mr. Kominicki with its Journalist of the Year Award, and his community and charitable work have garnered him numerous other honors.
Bob Papper is the Lawrence Stessin Distinguished Professor of Journalism and chair of the Department of Journalism, Media Studies, and Public Relations at Hofstra University.
For 17 years, Papper has overseen the RTDNA/Hofstra University Annual Survey on the state of local radio and television news. He also conducts Future of News studies for the RTDNF; he originated the Middletown Media Studies (which morphed into the Video Consumer Mapping Study funded by The Nielsen Company), and is co-editor of Electronic News, the official journal of the Radio Television Journalism Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
Papper is at work on the 5th edition of his Broadcast News & Writing Stylebook and has won more than a hundred state, regional and national awards, including four regional Edward R. Murrow Awards and a DuPont-Columbia for "Excellence in Broadcast Journalism."
He's worked at television stations in Minneapolis, Washington, DC, San Francisco and Columbus, OH. He's a past president of the Maine Association of Broadcasters and a long-time member of the national education committee of the Radio Television Digital News Association. In 2006, Papper was honored as the Ball State University Researcher of the Year, and in 2007, the Associated Press Broadcasters inducted him into the Indiana Hall of Fame for Distinguished Service in Broadcast Journalism.
Teaching specialties include convergence news, broadcast news writing, reporting and producing, the business of news and the future of news.