LIBERTARIAN JOURNALISM CONFERENCE: I can’t go to this, but maybe you can. If you can, reply NOW! or forever hold your peace–the relevant email address is at the end of this post. I got this info from cool libertarian artblogger Kelly Torrance:

I am pleased to invite you to a networking and career development seminar for young journalists sponsored by the Institute for Humane Studies. The all-expense paid conference will run from Friday, December 6, to Sunday, December 8, 2002, in the Washington, DC area.

The Institute for Humane Studies’ mission is to help build a freer society by helping to develop talented intellectuals interested in the

ideas of freedom. Journalists, as you know, are crucial to changing the current climate of opinion to one more congenial to liberty.

To that end, we are launching a new program of career development and networking for young journalists. We want to help you in your careers and, at the same time, encourage communication and collaboration among journalists sympathetic to classical liberalism. The first step is a seminar gathering together aspiring and established journalists for a weekend of advice and networking.

The conference will begin with a reception and dinner at 5:30 pm on Friday and conclude with lunch on Sunday. Jonathan Rauch, senior writer at the National Journal and author of Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought, will be our opening speaker Friday night. All day Saturday and Sunday morning we will hear from other journalists and discuss issues such as the pursuit of journalism, bias and objectivity, and networking. You will have some free time Saturday afternoon.

The seminar will be held at the Crystal City Courtyard by Marriott in Arlington, VA. IHS will pay for your hotel room, meals, and discount coach airfare to the seminar.

Please let me know by Wednesday, November 20, whether you will attend.

A schedule and some short readings for some of the discussion sessions will be mailed to you soon. When you RSVP, please let me know your preferred mailing address.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

I look forward to seeing you next month.

Yours,

Kelly Torrance

Program Director

Institute for Humane Studies

www.TheIHS.org

[email protected]

703-993-4969