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	2002 DECEMBER Dec. 26, 2002 Covering Conflict Terence Smith talks to New York Times correspondent Chris Hedges about his new book War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning and his firsthand experiences reporting from conflict zones.The NewsHour Media Unit is funded by a grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts.

	Dec. 17, 2002 Battlefield Bylines Terence Smith reports on a boot camp session at Quantico Marine Corps base where journalists are preparing for the rigors of covering war.

	Dec. 9, 2002 Remembering Roone Arledge Terence Smith remembers ABC News Chairman Roone Arledge.

	Dec. 5, 2002 America's Image Assessing the results of a new poll on U.S. world policy with Andrew Kohut of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, which conducted the survey, and two opinion writers.

	Dec. 5, 2002 War of Words As the deadline for Iraq to declare its weapons program nears, U.S. and Iraqi leaders have continued to trade accusations. Two opinion writers discuss the charged rhetoric between the Bush administration and the government of Saddam Hussein.



	NOVEMBER Nov. 26, 2002 Televising Juries? Should the media be allowed to videotape trial proceedings -- including the jury deliberations -- in death penalty cases?

	Nov. 25, 2002 Tom's Journal Author and journalist Tom Friedman of The New York Times talks with Margaret Warner about his recent trip to South Korea.

	Nov. 21, 2002 Crossing the Line? Terence Smith investigates whether the chairman of the Fox News Channel crossed the line by sending a letter of post-Sept. 11 advice to the president.

	Nov. 15, 2002 Conversation: Public and Private Terence Smith talks with photojournalist Diana Walker about her new book of presidential photographs.

	Nov. 7, 2002 Information Gap Terence Smith looks at the story behind the information gap on election night with three media experts.

	Nov. 5, 2002 Tom Friedman's Journal: Trip to the Persian Gulf and Berlin Ray Suarez talks with New York Times columnist Tom Friedman about his recent trip to the Persian Gulf and Berlin.



	OCTOBER Oct. 29, 2002 Hi-Tech Election Coverage Terence Smith reports on how the media are using computers to provide better coverage of this year's campaign season.

	Oct. 14, 2002 Ethnic Media: Changing Times Terence Smith reports on the growth of non-English media in the United States.

	Oct. 14, 2002 Extended Interview: Phil Bronstein Phil Bronstein, the executive editor of The San Francisco Chronicle, talks about his paper's efforts to cover events and issues of concern to the Bay Area's ethnic communities.

	Oct. 14, 2002 Extended Interview: Sandy Close Sandy Close, the executive director of New California Media, talks about the rise of non-English news, and how ethnic media is attracting larger audiences and advertisers.

	Oct. 14, 2002 Extended Interview: Gerardo Lopez Gerardo Lopez, executive editor of the Los Angeles-based La Opinion, talks about the success of his newspaper in augmenting its audience and luring advertisers.

	Oct. 14, 2002 Extended Interview: Sandra Ball-Rokeach Sandra Ball-Rokeach, a professor of communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, talks about the rise of non-English news.

	Oct. 14, 2002 Extended Interview: Jon Yasuda KSCI-TV President Jon Yasuda discusses the station's mission to address the needs of southern California's expanding Asian communities.

	Oct. 11, 2002 College Perspectives on the Iraq Debate Media correspondent Terence Smith speaks with four college newspaper writers for the campus perspective on the Iraq debate and the talk of war.



	SEPTEMBER Sept. 19, 2002 Editorial Views on Iraq Terence Smith discusses the Iraq debate with four editorial page editors.

	Sept. 16, 2002 HBO: Creative Force A closer look at the secret of HBO's success -- and its competitive edge over broadcast television.

	Sept. 5, 2002 Then and Now: Pete Hamill Terence Smith speaks with writer Pete Hamill about how Americans have changed since September 11, 2001.

	Sept. 3, 2002 Impact on the News Terence Smith and some of his fellow journalists assess how the Sept. 11 attacks have affected the news industry.



	AUGUST Aug. 23, 2002 The Clarion-Ledger Appoints New Editor Jackson, Mississippi's Clarion-Ledger newspaper on Friday announced Managing Editor Ronnie Agnew had been promoted to executive editor, becoming the first African-American to head the formerly pro-segregationist newspaper.

	Aug. 12, 2002 Tom's Journal Ray Suarez talks with New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman about his overseas reporting trip to the island nation of Sri Lanka and the Indian cities Bangalore and New Delhi.

	Aug. 7, 2002 Background: Threat and Response Terence Smith looks at the Bush administration's efforts to weigh its options on Iraq.

	Aug. 7, 2002 Threat and Response Newspaper writers discuss reaction to President Bush's promise to exercise caution in taking military action against Saddam Hussein.

	Aug. 5, 2002 Advertising Angst Terence Smith reports on how the advertising crush is affecting the television and print media businesses.



	JULY July 23, 2002 Fears of the Future Business journalists discuss how Americans are reacting to continuing bad news from Wall Street and Main Street.

	July 19, 2002 Bad Marriage? AOL Time Warner On a day of further bad financial news and plunging stocks prices, Margaret Warner looks at the marriage of AOL and Time Warner, and explores why the company's stock has fallen more than 70 percent since its merger two and a half years ago.

	July 12, 2002 Still Missing Terence Smith looks at why the media cover some missing persons cases and not others with Greta Van Susteren of Fox News Channel and Keith Woods of the Poynter Institute.

	July 11, 2002 The Cat From Hue Terence Smith talks with former Vietnam War correspondent John Laurence about his new book, "The Cat from Hue: A Vietnam War Story."

	July 10, 2002 Frontlines and Datelines Examining the hazards of reporting on stories in unstable regions and how some news agencies are preparing their correspondents for the risks of working in the field.

	July 10, 2002 Frontlines and Datelines Examining the hazards of reporting on stories in unstable regions and how some news agencies are preparing their correspondents for the risks of working in the field.

	July 3, 2002 Background: Pressure Points Terence Smith reports on the outside pressures in reporting on the Middle East.

	July 3, 2002 Pressure Points The media struggles to present an unbiased view of the Middle East conflict.

	July 1, 2002 WorldCom Fallout Four editorial page editors and writers discuss the state of corporate responsibility in the wake of the WorldCom scandal.



	JUNE June 25, 2002 Merging Media Big media groups have continued to grow as the Federal Communications Commission and the courts roll back rules that once kept such companies from merging. What will this consolidation mean for consumers? Terence Smith reports.

	June 25, 2002 Bob Wright The chairman and CEO of NBC, and vice chairman of its parent company, General Electric, reflects on changes in FCC rules and how consolidation will affect the growth of the television industry.

	June 20, 2002 Tom's Journal New York Times columnist Tom Friedman on his recent journey to Iran.

	June 18, 2002 World Trade Center: Among the Ruins Terence Smith talks with William Langewiesche, a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly who was given exclusive round-the-clock access to recovery efforts at the World Trade Center.

	June 17, 2002 Watergate: Thirty Years Later Analyzing Watergate's journalistic legacy on the thirtieth anniversary of the historic break-in.



	MAY May 27, 2002 Trading Places: Arab and American Reporters Two journalists discuss a unique program that allows Arab and American reporters to sample each other's cultures.

	May 20, 2002 Ads in Schools Correspondent Lee Hochberg reports on a debate over advertising in public school classrooms.

	May 20, 2002 Background: Fighting Terror Terence Smith looks at the threat of future terrorism and the controversy over pre-9/11 hijack warnings.

	May 20, 2002 Fighting Terror Four editorial page editors react to government warnings about the continued threat of terrorism against the U.S.

	May 14, 2002 Images in Conflict Pictures of the destruction caused by the recent violence in the Middle East have galvanized public opinion worldwide, but are presented in vastly different ways by broadcasters in Israel and the Arab world. Terence Smith reports.

	May 6, 2002 Tom's Journal Jim Lehrer talks to New York Times foreign affairs columnist Tom Friedman about his recent travels in the Middle East and Indonesia.

	May 6, 2002 Clarion Call: The Reinvestigation of Civil Rights-Era Crimes Terence Smith reports on how The Clarion-Ledger newspaper of Jackson, Miss. prompted the reinvestigation of more than a dozen civil rights-era crimes.



	APRIL April 23, 2002 Extended Interview: Myrlie Evers-Williams The widow of civil rights leader Medgar Evers and founder of the Medgar Evers Institute discusses The Clarion-Ledger's role in prompting the first successful prosecution of her husband's 1963 murder. She talked with The NewsHour after speaking to The Clarion-Ledger's editorial board in April 2002.

	April 18, 2002 Extended Interview: John Hammack The Clarion-Ledger's online editor, Hammack has worked for the newspaper on four separate occasions since 1962. In this interview with Terence Smith, he compares the Clarion-Ledger of old with his current workplace.

	April 18, 2002 Extended Interview: Mayor Harvey Johnson The mayor of Jackson, Miss. discusses the evolution his city and the Clarion-Ledger underwent to disavow their segregationist past.

	April 18, 2002 Extended Interview: Bill Minor A correspondent for the New Orleans Times-Picayune who chronicled the civil rights struggle in Jackson, Minor discusses the shift in attitudes he's seen in the city and The Clarion-Ledger.

	April 18, 2002 Extended Interview: Jerry Mitchell The Clarion-Ledger's investigative reporter describes how his articles on past racially-motivated killings have led to renewed legal interest in civil rights era crimes.

	April 18, 2002 The Medgar Evers Assassination Perhaps the most significant martyr in the struggle for civil rights prior to Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination, Medgar Evers galvanized the civil rights movement in his life and also in his death.

	April 18, 2002 The Freedom Summer Killings James Earl Chaney lived in Mississippi his entire life. Michael Schwerner spent six months in the state and Andrew Goodman had been there only a day.

	April 18, 2002 The Birmingham Church Bombing The 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, which killed four young girls, shocked the city of Birmingham and the world.

	April 11, 2002 Redemption: Journalism and September 11 Essayist Anne Taylor Fleming considers this year's Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism for coverage of September 11th and its aftermath.

	April 3, 2002 Images of Grief Essayist Roger Rosenblatt looks at the images of sorrow and loss on television news.



	MARCH March 26, 2002 The Boston Globe: Challenging the Catholic Church A look at The Boston Globe, the newspaper that first uncovered extensive sexual abuse cover-ups in the city's Catholic Church.

	March 5, 2002 Cable News Wars It's the electronic version of an old-fashioned newspaper circulation war, with the nation's three all-news cable channels locked in a competition for viewers. Terence Smith surveys the battle lines.

	March 4, 2002 The Unreported Stories Despite coverage of Afghanistan, a new survey by the group Doctors Without Borders finds a long list of key stories receiving little or no coverage in the U.S. media. Terence Smith discusses some of these stories with the executive director of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning group.

	March 1, 2002 Late Night Shakeup Terence Smith and Bill Carter of the New York Times discuss the negotiations between David Letterman and ABC that could potentially displace "Nightline" with Ted Koppel.

	March 1, 2002 Media Networks Searching for Youth Terence Smith looks at the networks' quest to secure younger viewers.



	FEBRUARY Feb. 25, 2002 Scoring the Games Two reporters discuss the contests and controversy that characterized the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.

	Feb. 21, 2002 WSJ Reporter Daniel Pearl Confirmed Dead Terence Smith talks with Felicity Barringer of The New York Times about the death of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

	Feb. 20, 2002 Tom's Journal Margaret Warner launches a new feature called "Tom's Journal," a series of conversations with New York Times foreign affairs columnist Tom Friedman. Tonight, he discusses his recent trip to Saudi Arabia.

	Feb. 19, 2002 Asleep at the Switch? Media correspondent Terence Smith explores how business reporters largely missed the impending implosion of Enron, the largest corporate bankruptcy in U.S. history.

	Feb. 18, 2002 Reaching Out Examining U.S. government efforts to counter anti-American sentiment in the Arab world through broadcasts and ad campaigns. Terence Smith reports.

	Feb. 13, 2002 Extended Interview: Andrew Tyndall The publisher of The Tyndall Report, a newsletter that monitors television news, discusses his organization's NewsHour- commissioned study of cable news network content. The following are extended excerpts of his interview with Terence Smith.

	Feb. 4, 2002 Extended Interview: Gail Shister The television columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer gives her take on the continuing battle for cable news viewers. The following are extended excerpts of her interview with Terence Smith.



	JANUARY Jan. 31, 2002 Extended Interview: Brit Hume Fox News Channel's Washington managing editor and chief Washington correspondent discusses his network's evolution and its recent rise in the ratings. The following are extended excerpts of his interview with Terence Smith.

	Jan. 29, 2002 Missing Reporter Daniel Pearl Two regional experts discuss the apparent kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

	Jan. 28, 2002 Extended Interview: Walter Isaacson The chairman and CEO of CNN News Group discusses his network's role in the past, present and future of cable news. The following are extended excerpts of his interview with Terence Smith.

	Jan. 24, 2002 Media Bias: Skewing the News? Do members of the news media report with a liberal bias? Author and former CBS reporter Bernard Goldberg and Marvin Kalb, a former NBC and CBS reporter now with the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy address the issue.

	Jan. 16, 2002 Tom Dine Discusses U.S. Outreach Efforts to the Muslim World The president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty discusses U.S. outreach efforts to the Muslim world and plans for a new Radio Free Afghanistan. The following are extended excerpts of his interview with Terence Smith.

	Jan. 16, 2002 Mamoun Fandy on U.S. Public Outreach Efforts in the Arab World A professor of Middle East Studies at the National Defense University, Mamoun Fandy discusses how the Arab world may receive new U.S. public outreach efforts. The following are extended excerpts of his interview with Terence Smith.

	Jan. 16, 2002 Extended Interview: Christopher Ross A State Dept. special adviser and former ambassador, Christopher Ross discusses the scope of his agency's public diplomacy campaign. The following are extended excerpts of his interview with Terence Smith.

	Jan. 16, 2002 Extended Interview: Gary Thatcher The director of the Middle East Radio Network discusses strategy and content plans for broadcasts to the Arab world. The following are extended excerpts of his interview with Terence Smith.

	Jan. 15, 2002 Foreign Correspondence: David Filipov Terence Smith talks to David Filipov, Moscow correspondent for The Boston Globe, in this continuing series of conversations with American journalists reporting from overseas.

	Jan. 9, 2002 Zacarias Moussaoui: A Televised Trial? Should TV networks be allowed to broadcast the trial of alleged Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui?

	Jan. 1, 2002 NBC and Liquor Ads After a 50-year, self-imposed ban on television ads for hard liquor, NBC has decided to begin airing limited commercials. A congressional opponent of the move and a representative of the nation's distillers debate the decision.