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FORMER NEWS MAN WILL SPEAK AB0UT A NEW NEWS INDUSTRY

JAMESTOWN - Justin Catanoso, director of journalism at Wake Forest University, will talk about "Why Newspapers are Dying and What's Taking Their Place" when GTCC hosts another speaker Feb. 21 in connection with the  school's all-college read content.

The former executive editor of the weekly Business Journal will speak at noon in the auditorium of the Sears Applied Technologies Building.  Catanoso, 52, also is a former reporter for the News & Record in Greensboro, the Centre Daily Times in State College, PA, and the Knoxville (TN) Journal.
Catanoso earned his undergraduate degree at Penn State and his master's degree at Wake Forest University.

"This year's all-college read, 'The Dumbest Generation,' has triggered much intellectual activity on campus, as well as access to (author) Mark Bauerlein last November and a film series to name just a few," said Joanne Buck, professor and department chair for English/Humanities at GTCC.
In his presentation, Catanoso is expected to survey how newspapers survived news media threats for nearly a century until they miscalculated the reach and influence of the Internet, Buck said. "Catanoso will explain how the industry's business broke down and isn't on the mend. Communities without newspapers is suddenly conceivable," she said.

Catanoso has said that while the future of newspapers may be dim, the future of news is not. "A new and innovative news industry is taking root. Now, if we could just figure out how to pay for it," he said.

Buck said that Catanoso's talk and the question and answer session will be appropriate for students in communications, journalism, computer technologies, history, political science, English and humanities.
Also is connection to the all-college read, a reception will be held for "The Dumbest Generation" author Mark Bauerlein at GTCC on March 14. That event will be hosted by the GTCC Foundation and the college's board of trustees.

Bauerlein will conduct professional development sessions for faculty on three campuses on March 14-15. He will address how to engage the "connected" student population in their education.
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