If you happen to be on the Big Island, you may have already heard about the UH Hilo Media Syposium scheduled for Saturday, October 1.

The day-long event, was organized by journalist Tiffany Edwards Hunt, advisor to the University of Hawaii-Hilo student newspaper, Ke Kalahea, among other hats she wears.

I’ll defer to the write-up describing the event in her Big Island Chronicles, a blog of Hawaii Island news and commentary.

It’s a pretty ambitious undertaking, “a gathering of statewide journalists and bloggers with Sunshine Law champion senator Les Ihara and Office of Information Practices Director Cheryl Kakazu Park.”

Symposium attendees will explore journalism fundamentals, receive refreshers on the Sunshine Law, libel and citizens rights and responsibilities, at the same time that they discuss how new media has changed the professions of newspapering, radio, and television and explore press credentials in the age of new media. State legislators’ exemption of themselves from the Sunshine Law and social media for members of County Councils and other community boards and commissions will also be discussed. Intro to blogging, an AP Style Quiz, an iPad workshop, a review of the Hawaii Police Department’s General Orders on media credentials, and a press conference on legislative and other issues pertaining to the Sunshine Law can be expected.

I’ll be there among the lineup of island journalists, bloggers, and others.