Knight Fellowships symposium: "Credibility in an Age of 24-7 News"

Newsweek editor Mark Whittaker has canceled his lecture. The Knight Fellowships Symposium will be held in its place.

Katrina Heron, author and former editor of Wired magazine; Tim Porter, editor of the journalism blog, First Draft; and Sandra Mims Rowe, editor of the Portland Oregonian will discuss recent issues in media credibility. Jim Bettinger, director of the John S. Knight Fellowships for Professional Journalists, will moderate the discussion.

Katrina Heron is co-author of "Safe: How We Can Change the Rules of Engagement in a Newly Dangerous World," published earlier this year. She was a top editor at the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker before moving to Wired magazine. She was editor-in-chief from 1997 through 2001, during a period that the magazine solidified its importance to information technology coverage. She was a Knight Fellow in 1995-96 and delivered the Knight Lecture in 2001.

Tim Porter is an editor and writer with an extensive background in print and web journalism. He is associate director of Tomorrow's Workforce, a newsroom development project, and author of First Draft, a blog on quality journalism and newsroom innovation. Formerly, he was an assistant managing editor with the San Francisco Examiner, editor of Examiner.com and editor of the Richmond Independent.

Sandra Mims Rowe is editor of the Portland Oregonian. She is past chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board and a past president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.

The Knight Fellowships program brings outstanding mid-career journalists, 12 from the U.S. and six to eight from other countries, to study at Stanford for an academic year. It has sponsored an annual lecture since 1988. Beginning last year it expanded the event to include a symposium the day following the lecture.