Keynote: Media Trends
Nicole Speulda, Project Director,
Nicole Speulda is Project Director at the Pew Research Center for The People & The Press for the Global Attitudes Project, a series of worldwide public opinion surveys. She is involved in all aspects of the polling process. She holds an M.A. in politics from Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where she studied comparative ethnic conflict with a particular interest in British colonial history in Ireland, Northern Ireland, and India. She received her B.A. in international politics from the Elliott School, George Washington University. She is a member of WIIS (Women in International Security), CENSA (Council for Emerging National Security Affairs), AAPOR (American Association for Public Opinion Research) and WAPOR (World Association of Public Opinion Research).

The Center for People and the Press is an independent opinion research group that studies attitudes toward the press, politics and public policy issues. We are known for national surveys that measure public attentiveness to major news stories, and for polling that charts trends in values and fundamental political and social attitudes.

The Center's purpose is to serve as a forum for ideas on the media and public policy through opinion research. In this role it serves as an information resource for political leaders, journalists, scholars, and public interest organizations. All of our current survey results are made available free of charge. The Center for People and the Press explores public attitudes about the credibility, social value and salience of the news media.

Lee Rainie, director of Pew Internet & American Life Project
Lee Rainie was managing editor of U.S. News & World Report. While there, he edited in several departments including online operations, the national news, and culture and trends. Stories he has overseen have won the top prizes for education, science, health, environmental, and religious coverage. He has appeared on news shows as an analyst and commentator on national affairs, including ABC's "Nightline," CBS' "48 Hours" and "Face the Nation," and NBC's "Meet the Press."

The Pew Internet & American Life Project creates and funds original, academic-quality research that explores the impact of the Internet on children, families, communities, the work place, schools, health care and civic/political life. The Project aims to be an authoritative source for timely information on the Internet's growth and societal impact, through research that is scrupulously impartial. The Pew Internet & American Life Project is a non-profit initiative of the Pew Research Center for People and the Press.