Professor Renee Hobbs, BTMM, participated in the 2010 Aspen Institute Forum on Communications and Society Aug. 16 to 18, 2010, in Aspen, Co.

The theme was “News Cities: The Next Generation of Healthy Informed Communities.” Also participating in the annual invitational program were FCC Commissioners Michael Copps and Julius Genachowski; Marcus Brauchli, executive editor of the Washington Post; Richard Gingras, chief executive officer of Salon.com; Lawrence A. Jacobs, senior executive vice president and Group General Counsel of News Corporation; Paul Steiger, CEO of ProPublica; Stefaan Verhulst, chief of research at the Markle Foundation; Vivian Schiller, CEO of National Public Radio; Tom Rubin, chief counsel for Intellectual Property Strategy at Microsoft; Tom Rosenstiel, director of Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism; and Ernest J. Wilson III, dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California.

This year, the forum engaged government officials, media and business executives, civic leaders, user representatives, and other thought leaders in roundtables and private working groups to arrive at specific action steps that communities can take to improve their information health.

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