FORMER SENATOR BOB KERREY TO SPEAK ON "MAPPING THE NEWS"

Former Senator Bob Kerrey will speak at the Mapping the News conference on May 14, 2004, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Former Senator Kerrey is now President of New School University in New York City and a member of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States (also known as the 9-11 Commission). A decorated Vietnam War veteran, he was also instrumental in creating the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (now the National Geospatial-intelligence Agency) while in Congress.

The Mapping the News conference explores how maps integrate with journalism and how they help the media to tell the story and the public to better understand the news. It will feature panels on elections mapping, investigative journalism and GIS, crime mapping in the news, and sources of information for journalists and media cartographers. Speakers from major media organizations such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Associated Press, CBS News, the National Geographic Society, and others, will discuss mapping as a narrative device at their publications. The Mapping the News conference will be held at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, on May 14-15, 2004. It also will feature hands-on workshops in news mapping, a luncheon at the National Press Club, and a Friday evening reception at the National Geographic Society Explorers Hall. For more information, please visit www.aag.org/mapnews  or contact Heather Heimbuch at (202) 234-1450 or hheimbuch@aag.org .

AAG News Release

April 16, 2004

The Mapping the News conference is sponsored by the Association of American Geographers, the National Geographic Society, and the Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. For more information contact Heather Heimbuch at 202-234-1450, or visit www.aag.org/mapnews