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Credibility in Question
4/05
What ethical
standards should journalists strive to uphold? How
do new media technologies, such as Internet news sites and blogs, challenge
traditional journalism ethics?
GUESTS: Michael Getler, ombudsman for The
Washington Post and former executive editor for the International Herald
Tribune, and Jay Rosen, chairman of New York University's journalism
department and blogger of pressthink.org.
ONLINE
REPORT: Credibility
in Question
Political Advertising
9/04
How
do the Bush and Kerry campaigns know which ads will appeal to certain
voters -- and whether or not these ads succeed in reaching the targeted
groups?
GUESTS: Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director
of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania,
and Ken Goldstein, associate professor of political science and director
of the Advertising Project at the University of Wisconsin.
Copyright
Conundrum
6/03
Is
downloading copyrighted music tantamount to stealing?
GUESTS: Lawrence Lessig, an expert on Internet law
from Stanford University's Law School, and Matt Oppenheim, senior vice president
of business and legal affairs for the Recording Industry Association of America. Diana
Walker: Photographing the Presidency
12/02
What
was it like to have uncommon access to the White House and document the public
and private lives of presidents from Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton?
GUEST: Time magazine photojournalist Diana Walker.
Ethnic Media: California's
Changing Audience 11/02
How will the
growth of minority communities influence the way media outlets operate?
GUEST: Sandy Close, the executive director of New
California Media, an non-profit association representing more than 400 ethnic
media organizations. Searching
for Youth
3/02
How
should the media structure news programs to lure younger viewers?
GUEST: CNN Headline News anchor Robin Meade. Skewing
the News?
2/02
Do
members of the news media report with a liberal bias?
GUEST: Marvin Kalb, formerly of NBC and CBS News
and now with the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. Notes
at Issue
8/01
Should
freelance writer Vanessa Leggett be forced to turn over her research to a federal
grand jury?
GUESTS: Lucy Dalglish of the Reporters Committee
for Freedom of the Press and former Reagan Justice Dept. official Bruce Fein. A
Mysterious Manuscript
7/01
What
influenced the literary style of American author Mark Twain?
GUEST:
University of Virginia
professor Stephen Railton. Thirteen
Days
3/01
What
are the lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
GUEST:
Former Secretary of
Defense Robert McNamara. Layoffs.com
2/01
Will
the downshift in the online news industry continue?
GUESTS:
David Talbot, chairman
and editor-in-chief of Salon.com; Neil Budde, editor and publisher of Wall Street
Journal.com; and Hoag Levins, former executive editor of crime site APBNews.com,
now editor of AdAge.com, the Web site of Advertising Age magazine. Changing
Local News
2/01
What's
in the cards for local news broadcasts?
GUESTS:
Carol Marin, former
WBBM anchor and correspondent for CBS's "60 Minutes" and "60 minutes
II", Marty Haag of Audience Research and Development and Carl Gottlieb of
the Project for Excellence in Journalism. Editorial
Eye
10/00
Is
journalism heading in the right direction?
GUEST:
Bill
Kovach, former curator of Harvard University's Nieman Foundation for Journalism. Regarding
Race
7/00
What
is the state of race relations in the U.S.?
GUESTS:
New York Times reporter Dana Canedy, former Times writer and George Mason University
professor Roger Wilkins and Dartmouth College professor Mary Childers.
Reality TV
7/00
What's
behind the growing popularity of "reality" programming?
GUESTS:
Robert Thompson of the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse
University and Frank Farley, past president of the American Psychological Association.
Too Hot for TV?
6/00
Should
"Dr. Laura" Schlessinger take her radio program to TV?
GUESTS:
Keven Bellows from Premiere Radio Networks, Lucy Dalglish
from the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press and Joan Garry of GLAAD.
No-Frills News
6/00
Should
local T.V. news return to a hard news approach?
GUESTS:
WBBM Anchor Carol Marin and NewsLab Executive Director Deborah Potter.
Free Air Time
3/00
Should
television networks give free air time to candidates?
GUESTS:
Barbara Cochran, president of the Radio-Television News Directors Association,
and Paul Taylor, executive director of the Alliance for Better Campaigns.
Violence in the Media
9/99
Is
violence on film and television on the increase?
GUESTS:
Center for Media and Public Affairs President Robert Lichter, Washington Post
columnist E.J. Dionne and director Rupert Wainwright. "A
Virtual Whitewash?"
8/99
Should
there be more diversity in T.V. programming?
GUESTS: Actor Damon Standifer and author
and syndicated columnist Earl Ofari Hutchinson. | 
