Thursday, May 04, 2006

Journalism Under Fire

4 discussions. Tuesdays, June 6, 13, 20 & 27, 7:00 p.m.
Series ticket $15, single admission $5.
Location: Swayduck Auditorium, 56 Fifth Avenue.Webcasts and online discussions at www.online.newschool.edu.This four-part series is co-sponsored by The New School and the Missouri School of Journalism New York Program. A reception follows each event.
Journalists Under Fire--The View from the Newsroom
Tues., June 6, 7:00 p.m.
Two veteran editors talk about what it is like back in the newsroom when the news is the kidnapping and murder of one of their own reporters: Paul Steiger, managing editor of the Wall Street Journal and vice president of Dow Jones, and Barney Calame, public editor of the New York Times and former deputy managing editor of the Wall Street Journal.
Aren't Women Citizens?
Tues., June 13, 7:00 p.m.
How and why are women and their perspectives underrepresented in news stories and in the newsroom, in this country and around the world? Sheila Gibbons, vice president of Communications Research Associates and co-author of Taking Their Place: A Documentary History of Women and Journalism; Carol Jenkins, Emmy award-winning news anchor and correspondent, founding member and now on Board of Advisors of the Women's Media Center. Moderated by Geneva Overholser, professor and Curtis B. Hurley Chair of Public Affairs Reporting, Missouri School of Journalism.
Writers Taking the News Personally
Tues., June 20, 7:00 p.m.
Reporters sometimes become part of their own stories. Three writers talk about the risks and advantages of inserting their own voices and viewpoints: Walt Harrington, professor of literary journalism, University of Illinois, and author of The Beholder's Eye, widely used in writing classes; Mike Sager, visiting writer at the University of California-Irvine and writer-at-large for Esquire whose collected essays, Scary Monsters and Super Freaks: Stories of Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll and Murder, was an LA Times bestseller; moderator Mary Kay Blakely, associate professor, Missouri School of Journalism, and writer for Ms., the New York Times, Mother Jones, Life, and Vogue, and author of Red, White and Oh So Blue, Memoir of a Political Depression.
Covering the Holes in History
Tues., June 27, 7:00 p.m.
Photojournalists talk about the real dangers they face in the field and what happens when their images are censored by editors and governments: Lois Raimondo, photojournalist for the Washington Post, whose pictures and stories have also appeared in the New York Times, Life, Newsweek, and Time; other panelists to be announced. Moderated by Jan Colbert, assistant professor, Missouri School of Journalism.

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