Journalism is more than the news. It is the anchor point, upon which we learn about the world around us as told by passionate story-tellers. STORIES THAT INSPIRE, EDUCATE, AND INFORM. As technology evolves and methods of communication are enhanced through YouTube, FaceBook, Twitter, and more the world becomes ever-more connected. How are these technologies harnessed? How are these stories captured, edited, and shared in real time from remote locations?

The changing face of journalism. This panel is comprised of award-winning print, TV, film and photo journalists who have traveled the world, covering a vast array of issues in politics, business, and entertainment. The session will be an open discussion about storytelling in the modern age when social networking tools like Twitter, Facebook and MySpace have completely changed the industry.

• How do journalists cover news in the field, sift through the facts and then present the issues on the front page of your newspaper, the lead story on the evening news or in documentaries?
• Skeptical of the way the media handles important issues?
• Curious about which stories are chosen and why?
• How has social networking changed the industry?
• Come to the Journalism panel to get the answers!

Jeffrey Pohlman

Jeff Pohlman

Jeff has spent the past 15 years telling stories through Emmy and other award-winning investigative reports, specials and in-depth profiles for CNBC, NBC and CNN. He’s gone undercover for pieces about airport security, cults, government corruption, national security and corporate malfeasance. He recently Executive Produced “Inside Track: Refueling the Business of NASCAR”,”The Fastest Growing Companies of 2009″ and “NEWBOs: The Rise of America’s New Black Overclass”, a documentary based on WSJ writer, Lee Hawkins’ forthcoming book of the same title, which features LeBron James, Torii Hunter, Kirk Franklin, Terrell Owens, Robert Johnson, the Williams brothers of Cash Money Records, Mellody Hobson, Jim Brown and Dr. Alvin Poussaint.

He has traveled extensively in this country and around the world overseeing productions in India, the United Arab Emirates, Spain, Central America, Mexico, China, Saudi Arabia and Russia. In 2003 he produced CNBC in India, an award-winning documentary about the economy of India. In 2005 he traveled to Saudi Arabia where he produced The Kingdom Built on Oil, a documentary that included an exclusive interview with Ali al Naimi, the influential Saudi oil minister and Prince Alwaleed bin Talaal. In 2006 he traveled to the Zhejiang Province in China where he produced the Emmy-nominated series, China Watch.

In the spring of 2006 he traveled to Russia and was the first Western journalist to film at the Yasny military base. Located near the Kazakhstan border, Yasny was ground zero during the cold war but is now home to Kosmotros, a Russian aerospace company that facilitates commercial space launches. At the end of 2006 he produced Warren Buffett: The Billionaire Next Door.

In 2007 he Senior Produced the award-winning documentary, Alan Greenspan: Money, Power and the American Dream. In the fall of 2008 he wrote and Senior Produced The Hunt for Black Gold. Hosted by Maria Bartiromo, the highly-rated documentary took an in-depth look at the world’s addiction to oil and the declining crude reserves.

Pohlman has produced hundreds of breaking news packages and dozens of specials including The Baja 1000 Off-Road Race, NASCAR and America’s Cup Sailing, all with Dylan Ratigan and live reports from the World Economic Forum in Davos. Additionally he created and produced In Profile with Ron Insana and Day in The Life with Sue Herrera, which featured in-depth profiles of leaders in business, fashion, music and entertainment. Pohlman also directed commercial projects for Pepsi, Coach and MusicChoice.

He has covered politics extensively. In 2003 he produced his first White House/President Bush special, the second in 2005. He’s produced profiles of Presidents Clinton and Gorbachev, Governors Palin, Pataki, Jeb Bush, and Schweitzer, Rudy Giuliani, John Kerry, First Lady Laura Bush, Karl Rove, Tom Ridge, John Edwards, and dozens of other influential leaders in America and around the world.

He’s been stranded at Mt. McKinley’s base camp, he produced a series about Guantanamo Bay, he made it to lower Manhattan minutes after the towers fell, borrowed a camera from a Pace University student and filmed the aftermath. He chased Navy Seals through Morocco’s Atlas Mountains during the grueling Eco-Challenge, and interviewed Hurricane Katrina victims in New Orleans’ 9th Ward.

Anne Sherwood

Anne Sherwood

Anne is a freelance photojournalist based in Bozeman, Montana. She has traveled to all 50 States and over 50 countries on six continents covering everything from the civil war in Liberia to the bison cull in Yellowstone National Park for publications including the New York Times, National Geographic Adventure, and Sports Illustrated. In 2003, she won a Pew Fellowship in International Journalism which sent her to South Africa. where she documented life in an informal settlement. Other projects include photographing the tsunami disaster in Sri Lanka, AIDS orphans in Zambia, the ski industry in Western Ukraine, the devastation of Hurricane Mitch in Honduras, and ecotourism in Panama.

A graduate of Princeton University where she studied with fine art photographer Emmet Gowin while majoring in Public and International Affairs, Sherwood began her journalism career in 1994 at the Lillehammer Olympics. She then headed to graduate school at Ohio University’s School of Visual Communication. She shot over 1000 assignments as a staff photographer for the Bozeman Daily Chronicle and won numerous NPPA clip contests, Society of Professional Journalists awards, and a couple of spots in the Communication Arts Photo Annual before becoming a full-time freelance photographer.

Sherwood lives the stories she tells and the people she meets along the way become a part of her. She has cried with tsunami victims, comforted AIDS patients, and laughed with drunken Ukrainians.

Some of her favorite experiences on assignment are being greeted at a South African shack by 40 singing children, sharing a coconut with a Sri Lankan family who had lost everything in the tsunami, and watching Liberians embrace peace after 14 years of bloodshed.

Daniel Lorenzetti

Daniel

Daniel is an awarding winning writer and documentary photographer. As a television journalist he was an investigative reporter on Capitol Hill for the McNeil-Lehrer Report and former documentary team member for public television.

As a documentary photographer, he has written and photographed for over 20 magazines and newspapers including The New York Times and The Miami Herald. In collaboration with his wife, writer Linda Rice Lorenzetti, they have produced two transmedia projects, The Birth of Coffee published by Random House and Collecting Visual Artifacts. Their innovative projects combine words and images to produce books, companion web sites and traveling exhibitions. Last year, The Birth of Coffee exhibition appeared in five U.S cities and was seen by over 350,000 people.

Lorenzetti’s photographs are part of the permanent collection of some of the most prestigious museums in the world, including the esteemed Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. He attended the University of Maryland’s Masters Degree program in Journalism and served as a White House Staff intern in the Executive Office of the President under Jimmy Carter. Lorenzetti is currently working on a new documentary project and has just completed his first novel, a work of speculative fiction entitled Arkadia. He lives in Three Forks, Montana and Austin, Texas.

Geoffrey Stephens

Geoffrey Stephens

Geoff is an independent documentary filmmaker who lives in Bozeman, Montana where he focuses primarily on making conservation films. Geoff also volunteers time with regional conservation and political organizations.

For twenty years Geoff worked for NBC Network News in New York City, where he earned dozens of awards including an Emmy, Gracie and Gabriel; covered politics and social issues; produced stories all over the world; and produced for many notable correspondents, including Katie Couric, John Hockenberry, Jane Pauley, Stone Phillips, Bryant Gumbel and Garrick Utley.

Geoff graduated from Princeton University in 1984 with a BA in Politics. He is married to Susan Quarles and they have two children.

Mike Finkel

Mike Finkel

Michael Finkel has reported from more than 40 nations across six continents covering topics ranging from the elephant poachers of central Africa to the conflicts in Afghanistan and Israel to the international black market in human organs. His articles have appeared in National Geographic, The Atlantic Monthly, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Vanity Fair, Sports Illustrated and The New York Times Magazine.

He is the author of the book “True Story,” about his association with a man accused of murder, and “Alpine Circus,” a volume of wintertime travels. Mike has also been anthologized in “The Best American Sports Writing,” “The Best American Science and Nature Writing,” and “The Best American Travel Writing.” In the line of reportorial duty, he has run a 100-mile ultra-marathon, bicycled across America, worked as a crab fisherman in Alaska’s Bering Sea, crossed the Sahara desert, skied off the Mount Kilimanjaro summit, been attacked by a swarm of African killer bees, and appeared on the television show “Sale of the Century.”

Mike is 40 years old and lives with his family in Bozeman, Montana.