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The 16th Walter and Leonore Annenberg Distinguished Lecture in Communication
"Journalism’s Rocky Path To The Future"
presented by
Paul Steiger, Editor-in-chief, President and Chief Executive of ProPublica.org, and former Managing Editor, The Wall Street Journal
April 1, 2008
About ProPublica/Paul Steiger
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that will produce investigative journalism in the public interest. Its work will focus exclusively on truly important stories, stories with “moral force.” According to its web site, “We will do this by producing journalism that shines a light on exploitation of the weak by the strong and on the failures of those with power to vindicate the trust placed in them.”
Mr. Steiger is also the chairman of the Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based nonprofit organization founded in 1981 to promote press freedom by working for the rights of journalists world-wide. He is a trustee of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, based in Miami, which supports transformative programs in areas including journalism and community development.
About the Lecture
Established in 1992 to honor Ambassadors Walter and Leonore Annenberg, this event brings alumni, faculty, and graduate students together to hear from a leader in the academy or in the professional world.
Past speakers:
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The Honorable Daniel J. Boorstin, Librarian of Congress Emeritus “The Rise of Public Discovery” |
1992 |
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Haynes Johnson, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, best-selling author,
television commentator, and Annenberg Professional-in-Residence “America and the Crisis of Change in the ‘90s” |
1993 |
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Anne W. Branscomb, Harvard University Professor of Information Resource
Policy and Annenberg Scholar-in-Residence [Deceased] “Roadblocks on the Global Infobahn” |
1994 |
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Professor Mary Douglas, Anthropologist “Up, Down and Sideways: Space as Medium and as Message” |
1995 |
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Professor Jaroslav Pelikan, Historian “Rhetoric and Beyond: Learning from the Greeks” |
1996 |
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Sir Jeremy Isaacs, Documentary Filmmaker, Television Producer “Television and History” |
1997 |
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Dr. David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Secretary for Health and Surgeon General of the United States, U.S.Dept. of Health & Human Services |
1998 |
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Duncan Kenworthy, Annenberg School Alumni (MA ’73), Filmmaker, Producer (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill) |
1999 |
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Vartan Gregorian, President, Carnegie Corporation of New York “The Role of Philanthropy in the Nation” |
2000 |
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Cass R. Sunstein, Karl N. Llewellyn Dist. Service Professor of Jurisprudence,
University of Chicago Law School, Dept. of Political Science and the College “Why Groups Go To Extremes” |
2001 |
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Rebecca W. Rimel, President, The Pew Charitable Trusts “Philosophy, Philanthropy and Philadelphia” |
2002 |
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Michael Delli Carpini, Dean, The Annenberg School for Communication “What’s the Difference Between Dan Rather and Bill Maher? Informing the Public in the New Media Environment” |
2003 |
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Amy Gutmann, President, University of Pennsylvania, Professor of
Political Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences and the Annenberg School “Deliberation in Education and the Media: Rising to the Challenge?” |
2004 |
| Oscar H. Gandy, Jr. , Herbert I. Schiller Professor of Communication The Annenberg School “If it weren’t for bad luck…” |
2005 |
| Shashi Tharoor, Librarian of Congress Emeritus “The Rise of Public Discovery” “The Information Revolution: Where Do We Go From Here?” | 2006 |
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