After the Crisis: The New Shape of the Economy

The recession may have bottomed out – but the future of the U.S. economy is murky. What will drive future economic growth? Should Congress increase regulation of the financial industry?

Will so-called “green jobs” materialize or pass like a fad? Can the country afford budget deficits from stimulus programs and bailouts? And what happens to consumers whose retirement savings have been battered and whose jobs are uncertain?

Our seminar kicked off Sunday, Sept. 13 at 7:30 p.m., with an address from Austan Goolsbee, a member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers.

The conference continued Monday, Sept. 14 with a series of speakers on consumer spending, government debt policy, financial regulation, and international monetary policy.  Short video clips of their talks are available in the player below, followed by video of their talks in their entirerty.

8:30 - 10:00 a.m. - Martin Neil Baily – Bill Clinton’s final chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, now of the Brookings Institution – discussing the challenges consumers face in this economy.

10:15 - 11:45 a.m. - Concord Coalition chief economist (and EconomistMom.com blogger) Diane Lim Rogers on tax and spending policy, government debt – and the role of fiscal responsibility.

 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. - Contrasting views of regulating the financial industry from the American Enterprise Institute’s Alex Pollock and David Min of the Center for American Progress.

3:15 - 4:45 p.m. - Charles Kramer, chief of the North American Division of the International Monetary Fund. 

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The Economist's U.S. economics editor Greg Ip has put together a list of resources for the seminar. 

The seminar will also include four days of hands-on multimedia training, led by former Washington Post video journalist Christina Pino-Marina. Fellows will learn best-practices for using photos, audio slideshows and video in their reporting, and techniques to expose their work to the broadest-possible online audience. Fellows will spend the first two days in the classroom learning the equipment and editing software, followed by a reporting field trip in the Washington area, followed by a day of production.

At Knight Center seminars print, broadcast and digital journalists receive in-depth training, meet like-minded colleagues, get grounded in a new assignment or rekindle enthusiasm for a long-time beat. Seminars are free.

Thanks to the generous support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, fellowships cover the cost of seminars, including meals and lodging. The only cost to participants and their news organizations is travel to and from the Washington area. Applications are invited from print, broadcast and digital journalists, plus bloggers and citizen journalists who regularly write about economic issues.

Participants gain valuable sources and engage in thought-provoking discussions with colleagues from around the country. 

Seminars are held at the University of Maryland, in the metro Washington area.

The Knight Center is funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and is a professional program of the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism. Participants stay in a hotel on the University of Maryland campus, located near Washington, D.C.