Spotlight for Good: A Conversation with The World's Marco Werman

Join inewsource and Marco Werman for an evening of engaging conversation of local journalism and its future in the United States.

• Tickets are $50 and includes tasty bites and beverages.
• Additional guests are encouraged and welcomed.
• Cocktail attire appreciated.
• Valet and metered street parking available.

**Space is limited, so register today!**

In today’s climate, newsrooms face very real threats to reporting and funding, yet the urgency of our work has never been more important. Come ready for engaging conversation, tasty bites and beverages and to financially support the work of inewsource.

Moderator: Lorie Hearn, CEO and Editor, inewsource

Lorie Hearn is founder, CEO and editor of inewsource, one of the first local nonprofit newsrooms in the nation. inewsource serves 3.4 million people in San Diego and Imperial counties and has become a model for local reporting with individual and wide impact, spurring congressional inquiries and positive change in local, state and national policies and laws. Lorie started inewsource in 2009 as a nonprofit solution to the drastic downsizing of commercial media.

Featured Speaker:

Marco Werman, Host, The World

Marco Werman, host of the international news program "The World" from GBH and PRX, is currently serving as UCSD's First Journalist in Residence. He hosts the public radio show from the new broadcast studio located in UCSD's Department of Communication and built as part of the Democracy Lab initiative. He has been working in journalism since he was 16 when he worked as a copy-boy at the News and Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina. His journalism experience has run the gamut from documentary photography, print, radio and television. A former Peace Corps volunteer, Werman got his start in radio while freelancing in Burkina Faso, West Africa, for the BBC World Service, where he later worked as a producer. In 1990, he started up a new public radio station in the Adirondacks in New York State, and hosted a daily two hour news and public affairs show there for four years. This was followed by a half year stint in Rome, Italy where he was the correspondent for Monitor Radio. In 1995, he was invited to assist in creating the format for The World where he has worked since. In 1997, he began providing the daily punctuation mark for The World in the Global Hit segment, in which musicians and musical trends around the globe are linked to the news. Werman has been the recipient of awards from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters for an original radio drama that he wrote; the Sony awards for an expose on child labor in West African gold mines; from the New York Festivals for a BBC documentary on the 1987 assassination of Burkina Faso's president; and the first annual Unity award from the Radio and Television News Director's Association for coverage of diversity issues.