Growing Community Media is hosting two reader events in October. Both focus on the importance of journalism in this moment and looking back generations to Watergate.
Alongside the League of Women Voters of Oak Park and River Forest, on Thursday, Oct. 9 GCM is sponsoring a conversation titled Can Local Journalism Survive? Thrive? There will be four people on the panel who are working hard to make local news sustainable.
- April Alonso is a founder of the Cicero Independiente
- Tracy Baim is executive director of Press Forward Chicago, a pooled funding source for local newsrooms
- Amethyst J. Davis is the founder of the Harvey World Herald
- Max Reinsdorf is interim executive director of Growing Community Media which publishes Wednesday Journal, Austin Weekly News, Forest Park Review and the Riverside-Brookfield Landmark.
Judith Crown, a co-president of the local league will moderate.
This event is free and open to the public. Thursday, Oct. 9 at 6 p.m. at the Oak Park Public Library’s main branch on Lake Street.
This conversation marks the League’s annual fall kick-off and is part of GCM’s 45th anniversary celebration.
And on Oct. 29, GCM invites you to the movies at the Lake Theatre. We’ll host a timely showing of “All the President’s Men,” the film based on Woodward and Bernstein’s breakthrough reporting of Richard Nixon’s Watergate coverup.
This will be a good night to gather and is also a modest fundraiser for GCM. Tickets are $25 but if you are already a donor or subscriber, give yourself a discount and hit the $15 ticket price.
We’ll have two local people with direct ties to the Watergate era introducing the film at 7 p.m.
Seats are limited. Buy your ticket at ClassicCinemas.com/wj
We’ll see you there.
