The New England News Forum together with Quinnipiac University will be co-sponsoring a symposium on gambling next Tuesday from 7 until 9 PM at the Mancheski Executive Seminar Room at the Lender School of Business Center at Quinnipiac. There will be two movies and two half hour long panels.

The first panel will be moderated by William "Liam" O'Brien, a media-production professor at Quinnipiac. It will include Attorney General Dick Blumenthal, Massachusetts secretary of economic development Dan O'Connell, as well as Barry J. Cregan, interim president of the Foxwoods casino and UMass Dept. of Public Health Adjunct Professor Rachel A. Volberg.

The second panel will “will cover the challenge of reporting on the news and effects of casinos in Connecticut.” It will include UMass journalism instructor Stephen J. Simurda, New York Times editorial writer Maura J. Casey, David Collins, editorial columnist at The Day, Marvin Steinberg , founder and director of the Connecticut Council on Problem Gambling , and Indian Country Today staff reporter Gale Corey Toensing.

Earlier in the day, starting at 4:30, two short documentaries about gambling will be screened.

More information can be found on The New England News Forum website