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Distance Learning Telephone Seminar

Employee Classifications and Independent Contractor Issues

When: Wednesday, March 24
Time: 3:30pm – 4:45pm Eastern
Cost: $74/member or $94/non-member
CPE: Up to 1.5
[Field of study: SKA Level: Update; No course prerequisites or advance preparation required. Method of Delivery: Group, Live]
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Refocus...Revitalize...Rebuild: Roadmap to Success
50th Annual Conference Celebration
May 23 -25, 2010
The Renaissance Hotel - Nashville, TN

What you will hear:

Newspaper/Publishers transition into paid content

Using social networking as a business tool

Independent Contractor issues and audits

Motivating and keeping employees as the economy recovers

Accounting for deals with multiple elements

Impairment, Valuation and Downsizing

Credit and Collections in an unstable economy

Also...CPE available all sessions, multiple networking opportunities,
Expo with key suppliers, social events, topical roundtables...

Entertainment by BMI singer/songwriters: Lee Thomas Miller, Wynn Varble and Luke Laird

Keynote Speakers: Frank Sutherland, former editor of the Tennessean Newspaper will kick off the Sunday general session. Frank is a Nashville native, and has a host of stories and tales about the Music City. In honor of its 50th annual conference, MFM will also be presenting the Founders Award to Tom Carroll, Chairman of Carroll Publishing, a print and online publishing company he founded in 1973. Carroll, who served as the Association’s chief elected officer from 1962-1963 and its first vice president, began his career in the industry in 1953. In the final morning General Session on Tuesday, May 25th, Steven Waldman, FCC Senior Advisor to Chairman Julius Genachowski, will expand upon his remarks on the future role of the Internet and journalism. Also confirmed to speak are: Josh Sapan, President & CEO of Rainbow Media and this year’s winner of the MFM Avatar Award; Dr. David E. Altig, SVP and director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta; and Alison Brown, CFO of Compass Records and Grammy Award winning banjo player.

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MFM & INFE Combine to Form One Organization

AUGUST 1, 2009 - We are very pleased to announce that an agreement has been reached between INFE (Interactive and Newsmedia Financial Executives) and MFM (Media Financial Management Association) that will combine the organizations into one under MFM's leadership. With the ongoing convergence of media, we believe this will provide a very powerful, collaborative, and educational base to our members. Both organizations have well respected brands in the industry, as INFE and MFM have been successfully serving their members in the newspaper, broadcast and cable industries for over 61 and 49 years, respectively...read more