The 1995 Society of Professional Journalists
Region 11 Conference explores these questions:

Will the "Info Superhighway" alter the very concept of news?
What if only an elite can log in?
Who owns the new technology?
How can today's journalists make the leap into "Way New News?"


Many journalists have already jumped on-line. Some have begun multimediating their stories, blending text, image, sound and interactivity -- the beginning of a new collaboration with their "readers." On-line or multimedia... these are journalism's first digital baby steps.

Ultimately the Information Superhighway will transform journalism as profoundly as did the printing press, the camera, the telegraph, radio and television. Maybe even more profoundly, sdince it so radically changes the relationship between journalists and the public. On the 'net, everyone -- and no one -- is a potential "authority."

Enter what WIRED Magazine has dubbed the era of Way New Journalism, which summons an onslaught of new questions. These provide themes for variation at the Way New Journalism Conference, starting with a keynote by Mr. Virtual himself: author, newspaper columnist and digital adventurer Howard Rheingold