The Edward R. Murrow Forum on Issues in Journalism
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Tufts University
Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts. It is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and on the eastern border of France...
. Dedicated to illuminating aspects of the many contributions Edward R. Murrow
Edward R. Murrow
Edward Roscoe Murrow, KBE was an American broadcast journalist. He first came to prominence with a series of radio news broadcasts during World War II, which were followed by millions of listeners in the United States and Canada.Fellow journalists Eric Sevareid, Ed Bliss, and Alexander Kendrick...
made to journalism and public diplomacy
Public diplomacy
In international relations, public diplomacy or people's diplomacy, broadly speaking, is the communication with foreign publics to establish a dialogue designed to inform and influence. There is no one definition of Public Diplomacy, and may be easier described than easily defined as definitions...
, the Forum brings together interdisciplinary panels to reflect on Murrow’s legacy and relate it to contemporary issues in journalism. The Forum debuted in 2006 with former Nightline
Nightline
Nightline, or ABC News Nightline is a late-night news program broadcast by ABC in the United States, and has a franchised formula to other networks and stations elsewhere in the world. It airs weeknights, usually for 31 minutes. Created by Roone Arledge, the program featured Ted Koppel as its main...
host Ted Koppel
Ted Koppel
Edward James "Ted" Koppel is an English-born American broadcast journalist, best known as the anchor for Nightline from the program's inception in 1980 until his retirement in late 2005. After leaving Nightline, Koppel worked as managing editor for the Discovery Channel before resigning in 2008...
serving as the keynote speaker and moderator examining the contemporary state of the news business. In 2007 retired CBS News
CBS News
CBS News is the news division of American television and radio network CBS. The current chairman is Jeff Fager who is also the executive producer of 60 Minutes, while the current president of CBS News is David Rhodes. CBS News' flagship program is the CBS Evening News, hosted by the network's main...
anchor Dan Rather
Dan Rather
Daniel Irvin "Dan" Rather, Jr. is an American journalist and the former news anchor for the CBS Evening News. He is now managing editor and anchor of the television news magazine Dan Rather Reports on the cable channel HDNet. Rather was anchor of the CBS Evening News for 24 years, from March 9,...
led a panel discussing the coverage of war and conflicts. In 2008 former NBC Nightly News
NBC Nightly News
NBC Nightly News is the flagship daily evening television news program for NBC News and broadcasts. NBC Nightly News has aired from Studio 3B, located on floors 3 of the NBC Studios is the headquarters of the GE Building forms the centerpiece of 30th Rockefeller Center it is located in the center...
anchor Tom Brokaw
Tom Brokaw
Thomas John "Tom" Brokaw is an American television journalist and author best known as the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News from 1982 to 2004. He is the author of The Greatest Generation and other books and the recipient of numerous awards and honors...
and panelists explored the current state of political coverage. The 2009 panel was headlined by MSNBC
MSNBC
MSNBC is a cable news channel based in the United States available in the US, Germany , South Africa, the Middle East and Canada...
’s Hardball host Chris Matthews
Chris Matthews
Christopher John "Chris" Matthews is an American news anchor and political commentator, known for his nightly hour-long talk show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, which is televised on the American cable television channel MSNBC...
, along with former Massachusetts Governor and 1988 Democratic presidential candidate Michael S. Dukakis, and Janet Wu, WCVB-TV’s political reporter discussing the press’ role in encouraging or discouraging people from seeking public office. In 2010 panelists Casey Murrow, author Lynne Olson, and producer/Massachusetts ACLU Vice President Arnie Reisman discussed Murrow and his efforts to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy
Joseph McCarthy
Joseph Raymond "Joe" McCarthy was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957...
after the blacklist and the contemporary state of blacklisting, self-censorship, and political redlines for the media. In 2011 panelists Katie Couric
Katie Couric
Katherine Anne "Katie" Couric is an American journalist and author. She serves as Special Correspondent for ABC News, contributing to ABC World News, Nightline, 20/20, Good Morning America, This Week and primetime news specials...
and Jonathan Tisch
Jonathan Tisch
Jonathan M. Tisch has been Chairman and CEO of Loews Hotels since 1989, as well as being Co-Chairman of the Board and Member of the Office of the President of Loews Corporation, its parent company. He is the son of Founder Robert Tisch....
discussed Couric's career as well as the state of journalism in a social media and technology-driven world.
2011 “Watching the News: Broadcasting, Webcasting, Forecasting”
Panelists:- Katie CouricKatie CouricKatherine Anne "Katie" Couric is an American journalist and author. She serves as Special Correspondent for ABC News, contributing to ABC World News, Nightline, 20/20, Good Morning America, This Week and primetime news specials...
, CBS Evening NewsCBS Evening NewsCBS Evening News is the flagship nightly television news program of the American television network CBS. The network has broadcast this program since 1948, and has used the CBS Evening News title since 1963.... - Jonathan TischJonathan TischJonathan M. Tisch has been Chairman and CEO of Loews Hotels since 1989, as well as being Co-Chairman of the Board and Member of the Office of the President of Loews Corporation, its parent company. He is the son of Founder Robert Tisch....
, Co-Chairman of the Board of Loews CorporationLoews CorporationLoews Corporation is a holding company run by the Tisch Family whose subsidiaries are engaged in the following lines of business:*property and casualty insurance...
2010 “DIXIE CHICKING: Murrow, McCarthy, and the Blacklist — History Lesson or Current Event?”
Panelists:- Casey Murrow, Executive Director, Synergy Learning
- Lynne Olson, author
- Arnie Reisman, producer and screenwriter
2009 “Digging Too Deeply? Headlines, Politics, and Public Service”
Panelists:- Chris MatthewsChris MatthewsChristopher John "Chris" Matthews is an American news anchor and political commentator, known for his nightly hour-long talk show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, which is televised on the American cable television channel MSNBC...
, MSNBCMSNBCMSNBC is a cable news channel based in the United States available in the US, Germany , South Africa, the Middle East and Canada...
, Host of Hardball with Chris MatthewsHardball with Chris MatthewsHardball with Chris Matthews is a talk show on MSNBC, broadcast weekdays at 5 and 7 PM hosted by Chris Matthews. It originally aired on now-defunct America's Talking and later CNBC. The current title was derived from a book Matthews wrote in 1988, Hardball: How Politics Is Played Told by One Who... - Michael S. Dukakis, Former Massachusetts Governor, 1988 Democratic Party candidate for President
- Janet Wu, Political Reporter, WCVB-TVWCVB-TVWCVB-TV, channel 5, is a television station located in Boston, Massachusetts, owned by Hearst Television and affiliated with the ABC Television Network. WCVB-TV's studios and transmitter are co-located in Needham, Massachusetts. WCVB is also one of six Boston television stations seen in Canada by...
2008 “Noise vs. News: The State of Political Coverage”
Panelists:- Tom BrokawTom BrokawThomas John "Tom" Brokaw is an American television journalist and author best known as the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News from 1982 to 2004. He is the author of The Greatest Generation and other books and the recipient of numerous awards and honors...
, Special Correspondent, NBC NewsNBC NewsNBC News is the news division of American television network NBC. It first started broadcasting in February 21, 1940. NBC Nightly News has aired from Studio 3B, located on floors 3 of the NBC Studios is the headquarters of the GE Building forms the centerpiece of 30th Rockefeller Center it is... - Matt BaiMatt BaiMatt Bai writes the “Political Times” column for the New York Times and is a frequent contributor for the Times Magazine, where he covered both the 2004 and 2008 presidential campaigns. Bai often explores issues of generational change in American politics and society...
, Political Reporter, The New York Times MagazineThe New York Times MagazineThe New York Times Magazine is a Sunday magazine supplement included with the Sunday edition of The New York Times. It is host to feature articles longer than those typically in the newspaper and has attracted many notable contributors... - Eric Fehrnstrom, Senior Communications Advisor to former Massachusetts Governor Mitt RomneyMitt RomneyWillard Mitt Romney is an American businessman and politician. He was the 70th Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 and is a candidate for the 2012 Republican Party presidential nomination.The son of George W...
- Peggy NoonanPeggy NoonanPeggy Noonan is an American author of seven books on politics, religion, and culture and a weekly columnist for The Wall Street Journal...
, Columnist, The Wall Street JournalThe Wall Street JournalThe Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....
2007 “What Would Murrow See Now? How the Press Covers War and Conflict”
Panelists:- Dan RatherDan RatherDaniel Irvin "Dan" Rather, Jr. is an American journalist and the former news anchor for the CBS Evening News. He is now managing editor and anchor of the television news magazine Dan Rather Reports on the cable channel HDNet. Rather was anchor of the CBS Evening News for 24 years, from March 9,...
, Global Correspondent, Dan Rather ReportsDan Rather ReportsDan Rather Reports is a weekly news television show hosted by former CBS news anchor Dan Rather that airs on HDNet. After being broadcast, episodes are available on DVD and in the iTunes Store. Like all HDNet programming it is broadcast in high definition....
, HDNet - Kimberly Abbott, Media Adviser for North America, International Crisis GroupInternational Crisis GroupThe International Crisis Group is an international, non-profit, non-governmental organization whose mission is to prevent and resolve deadly conflicts around the world through field-based analyses and high-level advocacy.-History:...
- Dave MarashDave MarashDavid Marash, known as Dave Marash is an American television journalist.Marash garnered considerable attention when he joined Al Jazeera English in January 2006 as the network's Washington, D.C. anchor, thus becoming the de facto American face of the new English language station. Two years later,...
, Anchor, Al Jazeera English - Charles Sennott, Staff Writer, Special Projects Team, The Boston GlobeThe Boston GlobeThe Boston Globe is an American daily newspaper based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Boston Globe has been owned by The New York Times Company since 1993...
- Commander Joseph “Cappy” Surette, APR, Public Affairs Officer, U.S. European
Command Liaison Office
2006 “What Would Murrow See Now? The U.S. Press and the World”
Panelists:- Ted KoppelTed KoppelEdward James "Ted" Koppel is an English-born American broadcast journalist, best known as the anchor for Nightline from the program's inception in 1980 until his retirement in late 2005. After leaving Nightline, Koppel worked as managing editor for the Discovery Channel before resigning in 2008...
, Managing Editor, Discovery ChannelDiscovery ChannelDiscovery Channel is an American satellite and cable specialty channel , founded by John Hendricks and distributed by Discovery Communications. It is a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav... - Louise Lief, Deputy Director, International Reporting ProjectInternational Reporting ProjectThe International Reporting Project is a project at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University that aims to fund independent journalistic coverage of "under-reported" events around the world...
, Johns Hopkins University - Keith RichburgKeith RichburgKeith Richburg is an American journalist, a longtime foreign correspondent for The Washington Post, and the author of Out of America, which detailed his experiences as a correspondent in Africa, during which he witnessed the Rwandan Genocide, a civil war in Somalia, and a cholera epidemic in...
, Foreign Editor, The Washington PostThe Washington PostThe Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation... - Neal ShapiroNeal ShapiroNeal B. Shapiro is the president of PBS station Thirteen/WNET New York City, installed in February 2007. He is the chief executive of the station's license holder, the Educational Broadcasting Corporation , which also operates the Long Island, New York, PBS outlet WLIW.- Life and Career :Shapiro...
, Former President, NBC NewsNBC NewsNBC News is the news division of American television network NBC. It first started broadcasting in February 21, 1940. NBC Nightly News has aired from Studio 3B, located on floors 3 of the NBC Studios is the headquarters of the GE Building forms the centerpiece of 30th Rockefeller Center it is... - Crocker Snow, Director, Murrow Center, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Edward R. Murrow
During a career that began in radio and soared with the early years of television, Edward R. MurrowEdward R. Murrow
Edward Roscoe Murrow, KBE was an American broadcast journalist. He first came to prominence with a series of radio news broadcasts during World War II, which were followed by millions of listeners in the United States and Canada.Fellow journalists Eric Sevareid, Ed Bliss, and Alexander Kendrick...
’s name became synonymous with broadcast news, making him among the most renowned figures in American broadcast journalism.
Murrow, born on April 25, 1908, attended Stanford University and the University of Washington and graduated from Washington State College in 1930. At age 27, he was hired by the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) and sent overseas as the company’s director of talks to provide speakers for the newly burgeoning radio medium. In 1937, Murrow became director of the CBS European bureau in London. He hired a team of reporters known as “Murrow’s Boys
Murrow's Boys
Murrow’s Boys, or “The Murrow Boys,” were the CBS broadcast journalists most closely associated with Edward R. Murrow during his years at the network, most notably the years before and during World War II....
,” who joined him in presenting vivid commentaries from war-torn Europe.
Reporting from London during the Blitz
The Blitz
The Blitz was the sustained strategic bombing of Britain by Nazi Germany between 7 September 1940 and 10 May 1941, during the Second World War. The city of London was bombed by the Luftwaffe for 76 consecutive nights and many towns and cities across the country followed...
, Murrow, with his signature opener, “This is London,” brought the horrors of the bombings into American homes. His sparse but eloquent reporting of signature events, such as the liberation of Buchenwald, personified journalistic professionalism and defined coverage of war, conflict, and other international issues for generations to come.
With the advent of television, Murrow teamed up with producer Fred W. Friendly
Fred W. Friendly
Fred W. Friendly was a president of CBS News and the creator, along with Edward R. Murrow, of the documentary television program See It Now...
to translate Murrow’s popular radio program, Hear It Now
Hear It Now
Hear It Now, an American radio program on CBS, began in December 1950, ending in June 1951. It was hosted by Edward R. Murrow and produced by Murrow and Fred W. Friendly. It ran for one hour on Fridays at 9 pm Eastern Time.- The show's beginnings :...
, to the new medium. See It Now
See It Now
See It Now is an American newsmagazine and documentary series broadcast by CBS from 1951 to 1958. It was created by Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly, Murrow being the host of the show. From 1952 to 1957, See It Now won four Emmy Awards and was nominated three times...
broadcast from places as diverse as Suez and Poland and covered issues from apartheid in South Africa to civil rights in the U.S. South.
Though See It Now
See It Now
See It Now is an American newsmagazine and documentary series broadcast by CBS from 1951 to 1958. It was created by Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly, Murrow being the host of the show. From 1952 to 1957, See It Now won four Emmy Awards and was nominated three times...
took on a number of important issues during its run, perhaps no single broadcast was more widely discussed than the March 9, 1954 telecast in which Murrow challenged Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. Using excerpts from McCarthy’s own speeches, Murrow exposed the junior senator from Wisconsin’s contradictions and dubious methods in instigating the so-called “Red Scare
Red Scare
Durrell Blackwell Durrell Blackwell The term Red Scare denotes two distinct periods of strong Anti-Communism in the United States: the First Red Scare, from 1919 to 1920, and the Second Red Scare, from 1947 to 1957. The First Red Scare was about worker revolution and...
” and the ensuing blacklist which had ruined the careers of many prominent members of the entertainment industry, including actors, musicians, directors, producers, and screenwriters for their alleged affiliation with the American Communist Party.
The broadcast contributed to a national backlash against McCarthyism
McCarthyism
McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence. The term has its origins in the period in the United States known as the Second Red Scare, lasting roughly from the late 1940s to the late 1950s and characterized by...
. Murrow invited McCarthy to appear on the show, which he did three weeks later. The broadcast elicited an outpouring of public sentiment criticizing McCarthy. Murrow’s broadcast earned him a Peabody Award and an Emmy, and helped bring about McCarthy’s downfall.
After Murrow’s long association with CBS ended in 1961, President John F. Kennedy, citing Murrow’s credibility as a journalist, asked him to become director of the United States Information Agency
United States Information Agency
The United States Information Agency , which existed from 1953 to 1999, was a United States agency devoted to "public diplomacy". In 1999, USIA's broadcasting functions were moved to the newly created Broadcasting Board of Governors, and its exchange and non-broadcasting information functions were...
. In that role, Murrow insisted on a seat at the National Security Council and a voice in policy-making so that he could better represent it. This approach prompted former Dean Edmund Gullion of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University
Tufts University
Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts. It is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and on the eastern border of France...
to coin the term “public diplomacy
Public diplomacy
In international relations, public diplomacy or people's diplomacy, broadly speaking, is the communication with foreign publics to establish a dialogue designed to inform and influence. There is no one definition of Public Diplomacy, and may be easier described than easily defined as definitions...
” in the mid-1960s .
Murrow died at his home, Glen Arden, in Pawling, New York, on April 27, 1965.
The Murrow-Tufts Connection
In 1965, the former dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, Dean Edmund A. Gullion, coined the phrase “public diplomacyPublic diplomacy
In international relations, public diplomacy or people's diplomacy, broadly speaking, is the communication with foreign publics to establish a dialogue designed to inform and influence. There is no one definition of Public Diplomacy, and may be easier described than easily defined as definitions...
” when he established the The Edward R. Murrow Center for the Study and Advancement of Public Diplomacy in memory of Murrow, whose outstanding work in reporting and analysis informed the American public and U.S. foreign policy for years. Public diplomacy involves non-governmental organizations, the media, multinational corporations, governments, and other actors communicating and engaging with publics around the globe, beyond the realm of traditional governmental diplomatic relations.
More than 2,000 documents from Murrow’s library and papers now reside in the Tufts University archives and in the Murrow Memorial Room at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. The Tufts Digital Collections and Archives contains The Edward R. Murrow Papers, ca 1913-1985, which is the world's largest collection of Edward R. Murrow material. The Digital Archives also features an exhibit called The Life and Work of Edward R. Murrow, which follows Murrow's career from his student days to his work for the United States Information Agency .
Murrow Forum 2011
The Murrow Forum 2011, entitled “Watching the News: Broadcasting, Webcasting, Forecasting,” was held on April 11, 2011 at the Cabot Intercultural Center at Tufts UniversityTufts University
Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts. It is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and on the eastern border of France...
. It was sponsored by the Communications and Media Studies (CMS), Tufts University
Communications and Media Studies, Tufts University
at Tufts University is an interdisciplinary program designed to educate Tufts students about mass media and communications within a liberal arts curriculum. Nearly 30 years after its inception, the program continues to focus on the role of media in the United States and internationally...
, the Edward R. Murrow Center for the Study and Advancement of Public Diplomacy, and the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service. Panelists included CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric
Katie Couric
Katherine Anne "Katie" Couric is an American journalist and author. She serves as Special Correspondent for ABC News, contributing to ABC World News, Nightline, 20/20, Good Morning America, This Week and primetime news specials...
and Jonathan Tisch
Jonathan Tisch
Jonathan M. Tisch has been Chairman and CEO of Loews Hotels since 1989, as well as being Co-Chairman of the Board and Member of the Office of the President of Loews Corporation, its parent company. He is the son of Founder Robert Tisch....
, Co-Chairman of the Board of Loews Corporation.
Katie Couric
Katie Couric is the anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, and a 60 Minutes60 Minutes
60 Minutes is an American television news magazine, which has run on CBS since 1968. The program was created by producer Don Hewitt who set it apart by using a unique style of reporter-centered investigation....
correspondent and anchor of CBS News primetime specials. When the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric debuted on September 5, 2006, Couric became the first female solo anchor of a weekday network evening news broadcast. She also writes a monthly column for Glamour magazine
Glamour (magazine)
Glamour is a women's magazine published by Condé Nast Publications. Founded in 1939 in the United States, it was originally called Glamour of Hollywood....
which features an interview with a new female role model every month.
Dateline NBC
Dateline NBC, or Dateline, is a U.S. weekly television newsmagazine broadcast by NBC. It previously was NBC's flagship news magazine, but now focuses on true crime stories. It airs Friday at 9 p.m. EST and after football season on Sunday at 7 p.m. EST.-History:Dateline is historically notable for...
. Couric joined NBC News in 1989 as deputy Pentagon reporter before serving as its first national correspondent in June 1990, which included two stints covering the Gulf War. Previously, Couric was a general assignment reporter for WRC-TV
WRC-TV
WRC-TV, channel 4, is an owned and operated television station of the NBC television network, located in the American capital city of Washington, D.C...
in Washington, D.C. (1987–1989) and for WTVJ
WTVJ
WTVJ, virtual channel 6 , is an owned-and-operated television station of the NBC television network, located in Broward County. WTVJ shares its TV studio and office facility with co-owned Telemundo station WSCV in Miramar, Florida, and its transmitter is located near Sun Life Stadium in north...
in Miami (1984–1986). She worked for CNN
CNN
Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
from 1980 to 1984 as an assignment editor, associate producer, producer and, ultimately, political correspondent. Couric began her broadcast journalism career as a desk assistant at ABC News in Washington, D.C. (1979).
Throughout her professional career, Couric has covered most of the major breaking news events, including the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, the Columbine tragedy in Colorado, six Olympic Games, the funeral of Princess Diana, the Oklahoma City bombing, and many other stories. She has anchored and reported on major world news events ranging from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the most recent devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan and the current unrest in Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Libya, and other countries. Couric has interviewed an extraordinarily diverse collection of newsmakers, from presidents and prime ministers to captains of industry and cultural icons. Her 2008 interviews with Republican Vice President nominee Sarah Palin earned Couric a Dupont Award for political reporting.
A graduate of the University of Virginia
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...
, Couric is the recipient of innumerable awards for her reporting, including the Walter Cronkite Award for Special Achievement, multiple Emmys, the Al Neuharth Award for Excellence in Media, a George Foster Peabody Award, The Associated Press Award, two American Women in Radio and Television Gracie Awards, UNICEF’s Danny Kaye Humanitarian Award, and multiple Edward R. Murrow Awards, among others.
Jonathan Tisch
Jonathan M. Tisch (A76) is Co-Chairman of the Board and a member of the Office of the President of Loews CorporationLoews Corporation
Loews Corporation is a holding company run by the Tisch Family whose subsidiaries are engaged in the following lines of business:*property and casualty insurance...
, one of the largest diversified financial holding companies in the U.S., and is also Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of its subsidiary, Loews Hotels
Loews Hotels
-About Loews HotelsHotels:Loews Hotels currently owns and/or operates 18 hotels and resorts in the United States and Canada:-United States locations:*Loews Annapolis Hotel - Annapolis, Maryland*Loews Atlanta Hotel - Atlanta, Georgia...
.
Tisch is the author of three best-selling books that explore his leadership philosophy, the role of the customer experience, and civic engagement: The Power of We: Succeeding Through Partnerships; Chocolates on the Pillow Aren’t Enough: Reinventing the Customer Experience; and Citizen You: Doing Your Part to Change the World, respectively.
He is also the host of the Emmy-nominated television series; Beyond the Boardroom with Jonathan Tisch, where he speaks with some of America's preeminent CEOs and business luminaries in one-on-one interviews. The show airs on Bloomberg Television
Bloomberg Television
Bloomberg Television is a 24-hour global network broadcasting business and financial news. It is distributed globally, reaching over 200 million homes worldwide. It is owned and operated by Bloomberg L.P...
and Plum TV
Plum TV
Plum TV is a lifestyle television channel launched in 2002 by Nantucket Nectars founder Tom Scott, along with producer Cary Woods and television executive Chris Glowacki. Most recently Tom Scott has become CEO again. So far his performance has been lackluster. of The programming is locally...
.
Tisch served as the Vice-Chairman of The Welfare to Work Partnership, and currently serves on the Board of Trustees for Tufts University
Tufts University
Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts. It is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and on the eastern border of France...
, where he is also the naming benefactor of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service. He is also on the Board of the Tribeca Film Institute. Tisch is a co-owner and a
member of the Board of Directors of the New York Football Giants and the team’s Treasurer. Tisch received his undergraduate degree from Tufts University in 1976.
Murrow Forum 2010
The Murrow Forum 2010, entitled “Dixie Chicking: Murrow, McCarthy, and the Blacklist -- History Lesson or Current Event?,” was held on April 14, 2010 in Barnum Hall at Tufts UniversityTufts University
Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts. It is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and on the eastern border of France...
. It was sponsored by the Communications and Media Studies Program (CMS), Tufts University
Communications and Media Studies, Tufts University
at Tufts University is an interdisciplinary program designed to educate Tufts students about mass media and communications within a liberal arts curriculum. Nearly 30 years after its inception, the program continues to focus on the role of media in the United States and internationally...
, the Edward R. Murrow Center for the Study and Advancement of Public Diplomacy, and the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service. Panelists included Casey Murrow, Lynne Olson , and Arnie Reisman
Hollywood on Trial
Hollywood on Trial is a 1976 documentary film directed by David Helpern. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.-Cast:* Walter Bernstein - Himself* Alvah Bessie - Himself* Lester Cole - Himself...
.
Casey Murrow
Casey Murrow is Executive Director of Synergy Learning, a non-profit organization based in Brattleboro, Vermont that supports math and science teachers through publications and professional education. He has designed and conducted long-term programs for teachers in many school districts in the Northeast, as well as in California, Alaska, and on the Hopi reservation in Arizona. He served as editor of Synergy’s Connect magazine and has co-authored several books on elementary and preschool education, including two series supported by the National Science Foundation that focus on linking science, math, and literacy. He has also been an assistant professor at the University of Vermont.Murrow holds a B.A. from Yale University and an M.Ed. from Antioch University. On behalf of his family, he is the executor of the literary estate of his father, Edward R. Murrow
Edward R. Murrow
Edward Roscoe Murrow, KBE was an American broadcast journalist. He first came to prominence with a series of radio news broadcasts during World War II, which were followed by millions of listeners in the United States and Canada.Fellow journalists Eric Sevareid, Ed Bliss, and Alexander Kendrick...
.
Lynne Olson
Lynne Olson has been a reporter and writer since shortly after her graduation from the University of Arizona. She spent seven years with the Associated PressAssociated Press
The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...
, working as a national feature writer in New York, a foreign correspondent in AP’s Moscow bureau, and a political reporter in Washington. She left the AP to join the Washington bureau of the Baltimore Sun, where she covered national politics and eventually the White House. She has written for the Washington Post, American Heritage
American Heritage (magazine)
American Heritage is a quarterly magazine dedicated to covering the history of the United States for a mainstream readership. Until 2007, the magazine was published by Forbes. Since that time, Edwin S...
, Smithsonian
Smithsonian (magazine)
Smithsonian is the official journal published by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. The first issue was published in 1970.-History:...
, Working Woman, Los Angeles Times Magazine
Los Angeles Times Magazine
The Los Angeles Times Magazine is a monthly magazine which supplements the Sunday edition of the Los Angeles Times newspaper on the first Sunday of the month...
, Ms
Ms. magazine
Ms. is an American feminist magazine co-founded by American feminist and activist Gloria Steinem and founding editor Letty Cottin Pogrebin together with founding editors Patricia Carbine, Joanne Edgar, Nina Finkelstein, and Mary Peacock, that first appeared in 1971 as an insert in New York magazine...
., Elle, Glamour, Washington Journalism Review, and Baltimore Magazine. She also taught journalism for five years as an assistant professor at American University in Washington.
Olson and her husband, Stanley Cloud, are co-authors of The Murrow Boys
Murrow's Boys
Murrow’s Boys, or “The Murrow Boys,” were the CBS broadcast journalists most closely associated with Edward R. Murrow during his years at the network, most notably the years before and during World War II....
, which was named one of the best books of 1996 by Publishers Weekly. Freedom’s Daughters, Olson’s second book, was the first comprehensive history of women in the civil rights movement. Published in February 2001, it won a Christopher Award in 2002. Her other books include A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II (2003), Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England (2007), and Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour (2010), a book detailing the lives of prominent Americans who lived and worked in Britain during WW II, including Edward R. Murrow.
Arnie Reisman
Arnie Reisman has been an award-winning writer, producer, speaker, and performer primarily in the Boston market for more than three decades, engaged in commercial and public television, corporate video, theatre, and film. His many film credits include: The Powder & the Glory, a documentary on the lives, times, and rivalry of Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein; Stolen Bases, a documentary on the Nashua Pride, an independent professional baseball team and its championship season in 2000; Hollywood On TrialHollywood on Trial
Hollywood on Trial is a 1976 documentary film directed by David Helpern. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.-Cast:* Walter Bernstein - Himself* Alvah Bessie - Himself* Lester Cole - Himself...
(Academy Award-nominated documentary on the blacklist); The Other Side of the Moon (90-minute PBS special for 20th anniversary of the lunar landing); and PBS' AIDS Quarterly with Peter Jennings.
Peter Jennings
Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings, CM was a Canadian American journalist and news anchor. He was the sole anchor of ABC's World News Tonight from 1983 until his death in 2005 of complications from lung cancer...
Reisman has also produced many films for clients, including the Heller School at Brandeis, Children’s Hospital Boston, the Boston History Collaborative, the Massachusetts Audubon Society, and the Civil Rights Project at Harvard Law School. He is a regular panelist with his wife, national consumer reporter and corporate coach Paula Lyons, on Says You!, the weekly National Public Radio comedy quiz show broadcast. Reisman has also served as a segment producer for WCVB’s Chronicle newsmagazine, and has produced documentaries and pilots for WGBH
WGBH-TV
WGBH-TV, channel 2, is a non-commercial educational public television station located in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. WGBH-TV is a member station of the Public Broadcasting Service , and produces more than two-thirds of PBS's national prime time television programming...
, including The Big Dig, WOOF! It’s A Dog’s Life, and a series of animated Curious George stories based on the best-selling children’s book character. A graduate of Brandeis University, Reisman also holds an M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He has won numerous regional Emmys for his work.
Murrow Forum 2009
The Murrow Forum 2009, entitled “Digging Too Deeply? Headlines, Politics, and Public Service” was held on April 13, 2009 in Barnum Hall at Tufts UniversityTufts University
Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts. It is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and on the eastern border of France...
. It was sponsored by the Communications and Media Studies Program(CMS), Tufts University,
Communications and Media Studies, Tufts University
at Tufts University is an interdisciplinary program designed to educate Tufts students about mass media and communications within a liberal arts curriculum. Nearly 30 years after its inception, the program continues to focus on the role of media in the United States and internationally...
The Edward R. Murrow Center for the Study and Advancement of Public Diplomacy, the J onathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, and the Office of the President. Panelists included Chris Matthews
Chris Matthews
Christopher John "Chris" Matthews is an American news anchor and political commentator, known for his nightly hour-long talk show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, which is televised on the American cable television channel MSNBC...
, Michael S. Dukakis, and Janet Wu.
Chris Matthews
Chris MatthewsChris Matthews
Christopher John "Chris" Matthews is an American news anchor and political commentator, known for his nightly hour-long talk show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, which is televised on the American cable television channel MSNBC...
hosts Hardball with Chris Matthews
Hardball with Chris Matthews
Hardball with Chris Matthews is a talk show on MSNBC, broadcast weekdays at 5 and 7 PM hosted by Chris Matthews. It originally aired on now-defunct America's Talking and later CNBC. The current title was derived from a book Matthews wrote in 1988, Hardball: How Politics Is Played Told by One Who...
Monday through Friday on MSNBC
MSNBC
MSNBC is a cable news channel based in the United States available in the US, Germany , South Africa, the Middle East and Canada...
and NBC’s The Chris Matthews Show
The Chris Matthews Show
The Chris Matthews Show is a half-hour weekend news and political roundtable program produced by NBC News. It is taped in Washington, D.C., and nationally syndicated by NBC Universal Television Distribution...
on weekends. He is also a regular commentator on NBC’s Today show.
Matthews covered the fall of the Berlin Wall, the first all-races election in South Africa, the Good Friday Peace Accord in Northern Ireland, and the funeral of Pope John Paul II. He has covered every American presidential election campaign since the 1980s.
Matthews worked for 15 years as a newspaper journalist, 13 of them as a Washington bureau chief for the San Francisco Examiner and two as a national columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle
thumb|right|upright|The Chronicle Building following the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake|1906 earthquake]] and fireThe San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California, but distributed throughout Northern and Central California,...
. Before that, he had a 15-year career in public service: in the U.S. Senate for five years for Senator Frank Moss of Utah and Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine; in the White House for four years under President Jimmy Carter as a presidential speechwriter and on the President’s Reorganization Project; then for six years as the top aide to Speaker of the House Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill, Jr.
Matthews has received the David Brinkley Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism and the Gold Medal Award from the Pennsylvania Society. He was a visiting fellow at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics and holds 19 honorary degrees.
A graduate of Holy Cross College, Mr. Matthews did graduate work in economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Matthews also worked for two years as a trade development advisor with the U.S. Peace Corps in the southern African nation of Swaziland.
Matthews is the author of four best-selling books, including American: Beyond Our Grandest Notions (2002), a New York Times best seller. His first book, Hardball (1988), is required reading in many college-level political science courses. Kennedy & Nixon (1996) was named by The Reader’s Digest
Reader's Digest
Reader's Digest is a general interest family magazine, published ten times annually. Formerly based in Chappaqua, New York, its headquarters is now in New York City. It was founded in 1922, by DeWitt Wallace and Lila Bell Wallace...
as “Today’s Best Non-fiction” and served as the basis of a documentary on the History Channel. Now, Let Me Tell What I Really Think (2001) was another New York Times best seller. His latest book, Life’s a Campaign, was released in 2007.
Governor Michael S. Dukakis
Michael Stanley Dukakis was born in Brookline, Massachusetts on November 3, 1933. His parents, Panos and Euterpe (Boukis) Dukakis, both emigrated from Greece to the mill cities of Lowell and Haverhill, Massachusetts before marrying and settling in the town of Brookline, just outside Boston. Dukakis graduated from Brookline High School (1951), Swarthmore College (1955), and Harvard Law School (1960). He served for two years in the United States Army, 16 months of which he spent with the support group to the United National delegation of the Military Armistice Commission in Munsan, Korea.Dukakis began his political career as an elected Town Meeting Member in the town of Brookline. He was elected chairman of his town’s Democratic organization in 1960 and won a seat in the Massachusetts Legislature in 1962. He served four terms as a legislator, winning reelection by an increasing margin each time he ran. In 1970 he was the Massachusetts Democratic Party
Massachusetts Democratic Party
The Massachusetts Democratic Party is the state affiliate of the United States Democratic Party in the U.S. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The state party chairman is John E...
’s nominee for Lieutenant Governor and the running mate of Boston Mayor Kevin White in the year’s gubernatorial race, which they lost to Republican Frank Sargent and Donald Dwight.
Dukakis won his party’s nomination for Governor in 1974 and beat Sargent decisively in November of that year. He inherited a record deficit and record high unemployment, and is generally credited with digging Massachusetts out of one of its worst financial and economic crises in history. But the effort took its toll, and Dukakis was defeated in the Democratic primary in 1978 by Edward King. Dukakis came back to defeat King in 1982, and was reelected to an unprecedented third four-year term in 1986 by one of the largest margins in history. In 1986, his colleagues in the National Governors’ Association voted him the most effective governor in the nation.
Dukakis won the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States in 1988, but was defeated by George Bush. Soon thereafter, he announced that he would not be a candidate for reelection as governor. After he left office in January 1991, Dukakis and his wife, Kitty, spent three months at the University of Hawaii, where Dukakis was a visiting professor in the Department of Political Science and the School of Public Health. While at the University of Hawaii, he taught courses in political leadership and health policy, and led a series of public forums on the reform of the nation’s health care system. There has been increasing public interest in Hawaii’s first-in-the-nation universal health insurance system and the lessons that can be learned from it as the nation debates the future of health care in America.
Since June 1991, Dukakis has been a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University. Additionally, since 1995 he has served as a Visiting Professor at UCLA’s School of Public Affairs. His research has focused on national health care policy reform and the lessons that national policymakers can learn from state reform efforts. He and the late U.S. Senator Paul Simon authored a book entitled “How to Get into Politics – and Why,” which is designed to encourage young people to think seriously about politics and public service as a career.
Dukakis was nominated by President Clinton for a five-year term as a member of the new Board of Directors of Amtrak, The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, on May 21, 1998 and was confirmed by the Senate on June 25, 1998. He served a full five-year term on the Amtrak Board as Vice Chairman.
Janet Wu
Janet Wu has been the NewsCenter 5 State House reporter for WCVB-TVWCVB-TV
WCVB-TV, channel 5, is a television station located in Boston, Massachusetts, owned by Hearst Television and affiliated with the ABC Television Network. WCVB-TV's studios and transmitter are co-located in Needham, Massachusetts. WCVB is also one of six Boston television stations seen in Canada by...
since January, 1983. In 2006 she joined WCVB’s investigative unit, Team 5 Investigates.
Wu is a key member of WCVB’s political unit and was a member of the team honored in 2001 and 2005 with the coveted Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Political Journalism. The station was recognized for its candidate-oriented reporting and its effort to cover issues important to its hometown audience.
In 1998, Wu was awarded first place in the Associated Press’ Investigative/ Enterprise category and the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award for Investigative Reporting for her report entitled “Public Property, Private Lies.” In addition, the NewsCenter 5 political team was honored in 1989 with a First Place National Headliners Award and with a Murrow Award for the best political coverage of any station in the nation.
Before coming to Channel 5, Wu was the State House reporter, from 1978 to 1983, for WGBH-TV
WGBH-TV
WGBH-TV, channel 2, is a non-commercial educational public television station located in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. WGBH-TV is a member station of the Public Broadcasting Service , and produces more than two-thirds of PBS's national prime time television programming...
, Boston’s public television station. She also worked as a reporter for United Press International from 1973 to 1978.
Wu, a native of Bridgewater, NJ, received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. She is fluent in the Cantonese dialect of Chinese. Wu is married and has two children.
Murrow Forum 2008
The Murrow Forum 2008, entitled “Noise vs. News? The State of Political Coverage,” was held on April 14, 2008 at the Cabot Intercultural Center at Tufts UniversityTufts University
Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts. It is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and on the eastern border of France...
. It was sponsored by the Communications and Media Studies Program (CMS), Tufts University
Communications and Media Studies, Tufts University
at Tufts University is an interdisciplinary program designed to educate Tufts students about mass media and communications within a liberal arts curriculum. Nearly 30 years after its inception, the program continues to focus on the role of media in the United States and internationally...
, the Edward R. Murrow Center for the Study and Advancement of Public Diplomacy , and the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service. Panelists included Tom Brokaw
Tom Brokaw
Thomas John "Tom" Brokaw is an American television journalist and author best known as the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News from 1982 to 2004. He is the author of The Greatest Generation and other books and the recipient of numerous awards and honors...
, Matt Bai
Matt Bai
Matt Bai writes the “Political Times” column for the New York Times and is a frequent contributor for the Times Magazine, where he covered both the 2004 and 2008 presidential campaigns. Bai often explores issues of generational change in American politics and society...
, Eric Fehrnstrom, and Peggy Noonan
Peggy Noonan
Peggy Noonan is an American author of seven books on politics, religion, and culture and a weekly columnist for The Wall Street Journal...
.
Tom Brokaw
Tom BrokawTom Brokaw
Thomas John "Tom" Brokaw is an American television journalist and author best known as the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News from 1982 to 2004. He is the author of The Greatest Generation and other books and the recipient of numerous awards and honors...
's distinguished journalism career began in the Midwest in the early 1960s and flourished after he joined NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
in 1966. As a political reporter, he has covered every presidential election since 1968 and served as NBC's White House correspondent during Watergate (1973–1976). Brokaw became an anchor of NBC Nightly News
NBC Nightly News
NBC Nightly News is the flagship daily evening television news program for NBC News and broadcasts. NBC Nightly News has aired from Studio 3B, located on floors 3 of the NBC Studios is the headquarters of the GE Building forms the centerpiece of 30th Rockefeller Center it is located in the center...
in 1982, a position he held through 2004 and from which he covered every major national and international story for more than two decades.
Since stepping down from his anchor position, Brokaw has continued to report for NBC and MSNBC
MSNBC
MSNBC is a cable news channel based in the United States available in the US, Germany , South Africa, the Middle East and Canada...
, and has developed and reported many long form documentaries, tackling topics including global warming, literacy, affirmative action, drunk driving, corporate scandals, immigration policies, and race. An accomplished author, Brokaw has published articles in newspapers and magazines including The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
, The Washington Post
The Washington Post
The Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...
, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek
Newsweek
Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...
, Time
Time (magazine)
Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...
, The New Yorker
The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
, Men's Journal
Men's Journal
Men's Journal is an American men's lifestyle magazine focused on outdoor recreation and comprising editorials on the outdoors, environmental issues, health and fitness, style and fashion, and "gear". It is owned by Jann Wenner of Wenner Media....
, Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated is an American sports media company owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. Its self titled magazine has over 3.5 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men. It was the first magazine with circulation over one million to win the...
, Life
Life (magazine)
Life generally refers to three American magazines:*A humor and general interest magazine published from 1883 to 1936. Time founder Henry Luce bought the magazine in 1936 solely so that he could acquire the rights to its name....
, National Geographic, and Outside
Outside (magazine)
Outside is an American magazine focused on the outdoors. The first issue debuted in September 1977 with its mission statement declaring that the publication was "dedicated to covering the people, sports and activities, politics, art, literature, and hardware of the outdoors..."Its founders were...
. He is the author of five best-selling books, including The Greatest Generation and his most recent book, BOOM! Voices of the Sixties.
The recipient of a litany of broadcast journalism awards, including multiple Emmys, Peabodys, and duPonts, as well as the Overseas Press Club
Overseas Press Club
The Overseas Press Club of America was founded in 1939 in New York City by a group of foreign correspondents. The wire service reporter Carol Weld was a founding member...
, National Headliner, and Edward R. Murrow Lifetime Achievement awards, among others. Brokaw, a graduate of the University of South Dakota, has also received honorary degrees from many colleges and universities.
Matt Bai
Matt BaiMatt Bai
Matt Bai writes the “Political Times” column for the New York Times and is a frequent contributor for the Times Magazine, where he covered both the 2004 and 2008 presidential campaigns. Bai often explores issues of generational change in American politics and society...
writes The Political Times column for The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
and is chief political correspondent for The New York Times Magazine
The New York Times Magazine
The New York Times Magazine is a Sunday magazine supplement included with the Sunday edition of The New York Times. It is host to feature articles longer than those typically in the newspaper and has attracted many notable contributors...
, for which he covered the 2004 and 2008 presidential elections.
He is the author of The Argument: Inside the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics
Matt Bai
Matt Bai writes the “Political Times” column for the New York Times and is a frequent contributor for the Times Magazine, where he covered both the 2004 and 2008 presidential campaigns. Bai often explores issues of generational change in American politics and society...
, named one of the best books of 2007 by The New York Times.
Before joining the Times in 2002, Bai spent five years as a national correspondent for Newsweek
Newsweek
Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...
and was a national correspondent for Rolling Stone in 2002. In 2001, he was a fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where he led a seminar on the next generation of political journalism. He began his career as a city reporter for The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe is an American daily newspaper based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Boston Globe has been owned by The New York Times Company since 1993...
. Bai’s international experience includes coverage from Iraq and Liberia.
Bai, whose work was honored in both the 2005 and 2006 editions of The Best American Political Writing, is a graduate of Tufts University
Tufts University
Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts. It is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and on the eastern border of France...
and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is one of Columbia's graduate and professional schools. It offers three degree programs: Master of Science in journalism , Master of Arts in journalism and a Ph.D. in communications...
, where the faculty awarded him a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship.
Eric Fehrnstrom
Eric Fehrnstrom is currently Principal at The Shawmut Group and Communications Adviser at the Free and Strong America PAC. In 2007 and 2008 Fehrnstrom was Senior Communications Adviser and Traveling Press Secretary to Republican presidential candidate Mitt RomneyMitt Romney
Willard Mitt Romney is an American businessman and politician. He was the 70th Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 and is a candidate for the 2012 Republican Party presidential nomination.The son of George W...
, and provided daily political advice and media counsel to him. Prior to the campaign, he was Director of Communications for Governor Romney at the State House in Boston. In that senior level position, he directed all speechwriting, media relations, event planning, and crisis response. Before taking this post, Fehrnstrom was Senior Vice President for Corporate Communications at Hill Holliday
Hill Holliday
Hill, Holliday is an American advertising agency. It is part of the world's third largest advertising conglomerate, IPG.It was founded as Hill, Holliday, Connors, Cosmopulos, Inc., in 1968 in Boston, by founding partners Jack Connors, Jay Hill, Steve Cosmopulos and Alan Holliday...
. He also served as Assistant State Treasurer, overseeing media relations at the Massachusetts State Treasurer’s Office.
Fehrnstrom started his career as a reporter at The Boston Herald, where from 1985 to 1994 he held a variety of posts, including general assignment reporter, political reporter, and State House bureau chief.
A lifelong Massachusetts resident, Fehrnstrom graduated from Boston University's College of Communications
Boston University College of Communication
Boston University's College of Communication was founded on May 27, 1947, then called the School of Public Relations. Since 1947, the college has gone through many changes in both name and location Boston University's College of Communication was founded on May 27, 1947, then called the School of...
.
Peggy Noonan
Peggy NoonanPeggy Noonan
Peggy Noonan is an American author of seven books on politics, religion, and culture and a weekly columnist for The Wall Street Journal...
is a columnist for The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....
and the best-selling author of seven books on American politics, history, and culture. Her essays have appeared in Forbes
Forbes
Forbes is an American publishing and media company. Its flagship publication, the Forbes magazine, is published biweekly. Its primary competitors in the national business magazine category are Fortune, which is also published biweekly, and Business Week...
, Time
Time (magazine)
Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...
, Newsweek
Newsweek
Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...
, The Washington Post
The Washington Post
The Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...
, The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
, and other publications. She is a frequent guest on political talk shows and has been nominated for Emmy Awards for writing a post-9/11 television special and for her work on the television drama The West Wing.
Noonan began her career at WEEI-AM, the CBS-owned, all-news radio station in Boston, where, as editorial and public affairs director, she won the Tom Phillips Award for broadcast commentary. She was a producer at CBS News
CBS News
CBS News is the news division of American television and radio network CBS. The current chairman is Jeff Fager who is also the executive producer of 60 Minutes, while the current president of CBS News is David Rhodes. CBS News' flagship program is the CBS Evening News, hosted by the network's main...
in New York, where she wrote and produced Dan Rather
Dan Rather
Daniel Irvin "Dan" Rather, Jr. is an American journalist and the former news anchor for the CBS Evening News. He is now managing editor and anchor of the television news magazine Dan Rather Reports on the cable channel HDNet. Rather was anchor of the CBS Evening News for 24 years, from March 9,...
's daily radio commentary and also wrote television news specials for CBS News.
Noonan was a special assistant and speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan from 1984 to 1986, and was chief speechwriter for George H. W. Bush when he ran for the presidency in 1988.
A member of the board of the Manhattan Institute
Manhattan Institute
The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research is a conservative, market-oriented think tank established in New York City in 1978 by Antony Fisher and William J...
, Noonan has been an adjunct professor of journalism at New York University. She is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University, from which she has also received an honorary doctorate. She has also been awarded honorary degrees from Adelphi University, St. John Fisher College, and Miami University.
Murrow Forum 2007
The Murrow Forum 2007, entitled “What Would Murrow See Now? How the Press Covers War and Conflict,” was held on April 9, 2007 at the Cabot Intercultural Center at Tufts UniversityTufts University
Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts. It is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and on the eastern border of France...
. It was sponsored by the Communications and Media Studies Program (CMS)
Communications and Media Studies, Tufts University
at Tufts University is an interdisciplinary program designed to educate Tufts students about mass media and communications within a liberal arts curriculum. Nearly 30 years after its inception, the program continues to focus on the role of media in the United States and internationally...
, the Edward R. Murrow Center for the Study and Advancement of Public Diplomacy, and the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service. Panelists included Dan Rather
Dan Rather
Daniel Irvin "Dan" Rather, Jr. is an American journalist and the former news anchor for the CBS Evening News. He is now managing editor and anchor of the television news magazine Dan Rather Reports on the cable channel HDNet. Rather was anchor of the CBS Evening News for 24 years, from March 9,...
, Kimberly Abbott, Dave Marash
Dave Marash
David Marash, known as Dave Marash is an American television journalist.Marash garnered considerable attention when he joined Al Jazeera English in January 2006 as the network's Washington, D.C. anchor, thus becoming the de facto American face of the new English language station. Two years later,...
, Charles Sennott, and Commander Joseph “Cappy” Surette.
Dan Rather
In a distinguished journalism career spanning four decades, Dan RatherDan Rather
Daniel Irvin "Dan" Rather, Jr. is an American journalist and the former news anchor for the CBS Evening News. He is now managing editor and anchor of the television news magazine Dan Rather Reports on the cable channel HDNet. Rather was anchor of the CBS Evening News for 24 years, from March 9,...
has covered the world’s most important news stories. He has interviewed every U.S. president from Dwight D. Eisenhower to George W. Bush and many of the world’s most prominent leaders. Rather landed two news-breaking interviews with Saddam Hussein in 1990 and 2003 and broke the Abu Ghraib story as a correspondent for 60 Minutes II
60 Minutes II
60 Minutes II was a weekly primetime news magazine television program that was intended to replicate the "signature style, journalistic quality and integrity" of the original 60 Minutes series.It aired on CBS on Wednesdays, then later moved to Fridays at 8 p.m...
. Rather has reported from war and conflict zones across the globe, from Vietnam to Afghanistan and from the Persian Gulf to Yugoslavia.
Rather is now the anchor and managing editor of Dan Rather Reports
Dan Rather Reports
Dan Rather Reports is a weekly news television show hosted by former CBS news anchor Dan Rather that airs on HDNet. After being broadcast, episodes are available on DVD and in the iTunes Store. Like all HDNet programming it is broadcast in high definition....
on HDNet
HDNet
HDNet is a men's interest television channel in the United States, broadcasting exclusively in high-definition format and available via cable and satellite television...
. Prior to that, he served as anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News
CBS Evening News
CBS Evening News is the flagship nightly television news program of the American television network CBS. The network has broadcast this program since 1948, and has used the CBS Evening News title since 1963....
for 24 years, the longest such tenure in broadcast journalism history. Rather’s other positions at CBS included anchor of CBS Reports
CBS Reports
CBS Reports is the umbrella title used for documentaries by CBS News which aired starting in 1959 through the 1990s. The series sometimes aired as a wheel series rotating with 60 Minutes , as a series of its own or as specials. The program aired as a constant series from 1959 to 1971...
and the weekend editions of CBS Evening News, CBS News bureau chief in London and Saigon, and White House correspondent during the Johnson and Nixon administrations. Rather also anchored and reported for 48 Hours
48 Hours (TV series)
48 Hours is a documentary and news program broadcast on the CBS television network since January 19, 1988. The program originally presented documentaries of various events related to a particular subject occurring within a 48-hour period, and is credited as one of the first to air a "reality show"...
from its premiere in 1988 through 2002. He was a correspondent for 60 Minutes
60 Minutes
60 Minutes is an American television news magazine, which has run on CBS since 1968. The program was created by producer Don Hewitt who set it apart by using a unique style of reporter-centered investigation....
for many years, as well as a correspondent for 60 Minutes II.
Rather has received virtually every honor in broadcast journalism, including numerous Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award. He received a B.A. in journalism from Sam Houston University and attended the University of Houston and the South Texas School of Law.
Kimberly Abbott
Kimberly Abbott directs U.S. media relations for the International Crisis GroupInternational Crisis Group
The International Crisis Group is an international, non-profit, non-governmental organization whose mission is to prevent and resolve deadly conflicts around the world through field-based analyses and high-level advocacy.-History:...
, a Brussels-based, independent non-profit organization working through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and resolve deadly conflict worldwide.
Before taking her current position, Abbott worked as the communications and media manager at InterAction, the largest alliance of U.S.-based international development and humanitarian non-governmental organizations, where she brought attention to under-reported humanitarian stories. Abbott also spent more than a decade in television and radio as a producer and reporter, including jobs at CNN
CNN
Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
, Radio France
Radio France
Radio France is a French public service radio broadcaster.-Mission:Radio France's two principal missions are:* To create and expand the programming on all of their stations; and...
, and France 3
France 3
France 3 is the second largest French public television channel and part of the France Télévisions group, which also includes France 2, France 4, France 5, and France Ô....
television.
Her career has included communications work on Capitol Hill, presidential politics, and work as an envoy and translator for the Centennial Olympic Games. She is the co-founder of BookSmart DC, a strategic communications company that promotes authors, experts, and dialogue on international issues. The recipient of numerous European fellowships in journalism and international affairs, Abbott earned a B.S. degree in journalism from Boston University.
Dave Marash
Dave MarashDave Marash
David Marash, known as Dave Marash is an American television journalist.Marash garnered considerable attention when he joined Al Jazeera English in January 2006 as the network's Washington, D.C. anchor, thus becoming the de facto American face of the new English language station. Two years later,...
served as a prominent anchor for Al Jazeera English from 2006 to 2008. Prior to that Marash was a reporter for ABC News’ Nightline
Nightline
Nightline, or ABC News Nightline is a late-night news program broadcast by ABC in the United States, and has a franchised formula to other networks and stations elsewhere in the world. It airs weeknights, usually for 31 minutes. Created by Roone Arledge, the program featured Ted Koppel as its main...
from 1989 to 2006 and a correspondent for ABC News’ 20/20 from 1978 to 1990.
Marash spent more than a decade as a local news reporter in New York and Washington, D.C. Marash’s coverage of world events earned him Emmy Awards in 1994 for his coverage of the war in Bosnia, in 1996 for his coverage of the domestic terrorism in Oklahoma City, and in 1997 for his reporting of the explosion of TWA flight 800.
Marash received the duPont Award and a Global Health Award in 2000 for a three-part series of Nightline programs on the effects of AIDS in Zimbabwe. In his earlier career as a radio correspondent, Marash was awarded a New York Press Club
New York Press Club
The New York Press Club is a membership organization of and for journalists and media professionals in the New York City metropolitan area. The club is a private, non-profit corporation and is not affiliated with any government office or agency and does not advocate or participate in any political...
Award and the Overseas Press Club
Overseas Press Club
The Overseas Press Club of America was founded in 1939 in New York City by a group of foreign correspondents. The wire service reporter Carol Weld was a founding member...
Award for his reports of the 1972 Black September hostage killings at the Munich Olympic Games. Marash, a graduate of Williams College, did graduate work at Rutgers University.
Charles Sennott
Charles Sennott is currently the Executive Editor, Vice President, and Co-Founder of GlobalPostGlobalPost
GlobalPost is an online US news company that focuses on international news. It wants "to redefine international news for the digital age."-History and management:...
, which he co-founded with Philip S. Balboni in 2008. Sennott is a veteran foreign correspondent and author who has covered the Middle East and Central Asia for most of the last 15 years. Sennott has previously been a staff writer on the Special Projects team of the Boston Globe, and also served as Middle East bureau chief and Europe bureau chief for the Globe.
Sennott was among the first reporters on the ground to cover the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is a frequent analyst on terrorism and religious extremism for the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
, NPR
NPR
NPR, formerly National Public Radio, is a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to a network of 900 public radio stations in the United States. NPR was created in 1970, following congressional passage of the Public Broadcasting...
, and CNN
CNN
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, among other news organizations. Sennott’s reporting has received the Livingston Award for national reporting and the Foreign Press Association Story of the Year award for his coverage of Iraq.
Sennott holds a B.A. in history from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, an M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is one of Columbia's graduate and professional schools. It offers three degree programs: Master of Science in journalism , Master of Arts in journalism and a Ph.D. in communications...
, and an honorary doctorate from Providence College, awarded for his reporting on faith amid conflict. He was selected as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 2005.
Commander Joseph “Cappy” Surette
Commander Joseph “Cappy” Surette, APR, is currently Head of Communications for Navy Medicine, which is a 63,000 person global network that provides healthcare to more than one million eligible beneficiaries. Previously, he was assigned as the Public Affairs liaison to the U.S. European Command Office, responsible for media relations with the Pentagon press corps as well as national and international media organizations. He has also served as director of media operations for the U.S. Navy, where he provided direct support to the Secretary of the Navy.As Public Affairs Officer onboard the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, Surette coordinated, among other things, two live Fox Sports NFL Pre-game Shows from the flight deck. He served at the U.S. Naval Air Station Sigonella in Sicily and as the Navy’s Hollywood Liaison Officer in Los Angeles. Surette has earned many decorations, including several Meritorious Service Medals, Navy Commendation Medals, Navy Achievement Medals, and an Air Force Commendation Medal. He is the recipient of numerous Rear Admiral William Thompson “Excellence in Public Affairs” awards. Surette received a B.A. from Miami University of Ohio and an M.A. in public communications from American University.
Murrow Forum 2006
The Murrow Forum 2006, entitled “What Would Murrow See Now? The US Press and the World,” was held on April 3, 2006 at the Cabot Intercultural Center at Tufts UniversityTufts University
Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts. It is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and on the eastern border of France...
. It was sponsored by the Communications and Media Studies Program (CMS)
Communications and Media Studies, Tufts University
at Tufts University is an interdisciplinary program designed to educate Tufts students about mass media and communications within a liberal arts curriculum. Nearly 30 years after its inception, the program continues to focus on the role of media in the United States and internationally...
, the Edward R. Murrow Center for the Study and Advancement of Public Diplomacy, and the University College of Citizenship and Public Service. Panelists included Ted Koppel
Ted Koppel
Edward James "Ted" Koppel is an English-born American broadcast journalist, best known as the anchor for Nightline from the program's inception in 1980 until his retirement in late 2005. After leaving Nightline, Koppel worked as managing editor for the Discovery Channel before resigning in 2008...
, Louise Lief
International Reporting Project
The International Reporting Project is a project at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University that aims to fund independent journalistic coverage of "under-reported" events around the world...
, Keith Richburg
Keith Richburg
Keith Richburg is an American journalist, a longtime foreign correspondent for The Washington Post, and the author of Out of America, which detailed his experiences as a correspondent in Africa, during which he witnessed the Rwandan Genocide, a civil war in Somalia, and a cholera epidemic in...
, Neal Shapiro
Neal Shapiro
Neal B. Shapiro is the president of PBS station Thirteen/WNET New York City, installed in February 2007. He is the chief executive of the station's license holder, the Educational Broadcasting Corporation , which also operates the Long Island, New York, PBS outlet WLIW.- Life and Career :Shapiro...
, and Crocker Snow
Crocker Snow, Jr.
Crocker Snow, Jr. is the current director Edward R. Murrow Center for Public Diplomacy at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He is a veteran American journalist.-Early life:...
.
Ted Koppel
Ted KoppelTed Koppel
Edward James "Ted" Koppel is an English-born American broadcast journalist, best known as the anchor for Nightline from the program's inception in 1980 until his retirement in late 2005. After leaving Nightline, Koppel worked as managing editor for the Discovery Channel before resigning in 2008...
is currently a senior news analyst for National Public Radio and a contributor to BBC World News America
BBC World News America
BBC World News America is a current affairs news programme produced by BBC World News to be shown initially for American audiences. It's presented by Katty Kay, who was announced the main anchor in September 2011....
. He served as the managing editor for the Discovery Channel from 2006 to 2008. In this role, he anchored and produced long form programming examining major global topics and events for the largest cable network in the United States.
Ted Koppel is a 42-year veteran of ABC News. Between 1980 and 2005, he was the anchor and managing editor of ABC News' ightline]], one of the most honored news broadcasts in television history. As the nation’s longest running network daily news anchor, he interviewed and reported on every major news story for 25 years.
A member of the Broadcasting Hall of Fame, Koppel has won every major broadcasting award, including 40 Emmy Awards, eight George Foster Peabody Awards, 10 duPont-Columbia Awards, and two George Polk Awards. His 10 Overseas Press Club Awards make him the most honored journalist in the Club’s history. He has received more than 20 honorary degrees from universities in the United States, including the honorary doctorate of humane letters from Tufts University
Tufts University
Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts. It is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and on the eastern border of France...
in 1994.
Before becoming Nightline anchor, Koppel worked as an anchor, foreign and domestic correspondent, and bureau chief for ABC News
ABC News
ABC News is the news gathering and broadcasting division of American broadcast television network ABC, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company...
. He holds a B.S. from Syracuse University and an M.A. in mass communications research and political science from Stanford University.
Louise Lief
Louise LiefInternational Reporting Project
The International Reporting Project is a project at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University that aims to fund independent journalistic coverage of "under-reported" events around the world...
’s career includes postings all over the world. She worked as a stringer for The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and the Voice of America
Voice of America
Voice of America is the official external broadcast institution of the United States federal government. It is one of five civilian U.S. international broadcasters working under the umbrella of the Broadcasting Board of Governors . VOA provides a wide range of programming for broadcast on radio...
in Cairo, and for Time
Time (magazine)
Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...
and Newsweek
Newsweek
Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...
in Paris, where she was also a contributor to The Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times, and The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe is an American daily newspaper based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Boston Globe has been owned by The New York Times Company since 1993...
. Lief also worked as a producer/researcher for CBS’s 60 Minutes
60 Minutes
60 Minutes is an American television news magazine, which has run on CBS since 1968. The program was created by producer Don Hewitt who set it apart by using a unique style of reporter-centered investigation....
and covered events in Africa, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
Lief was a senior editor at U.S. News and World Report for a decade, covering the State Department and foreign affairs. She now serves as Deputy Director of the International Reporting Project
International Reporting Project
The International Reporting Project is a project at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University that aims to fund independent journalistic coverage of "under-reported" events around the world...
(IRP) Fellowships at Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University
The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...
. IRP seeks to improve the quality and quantity of international news in the U.S. media by educating U.S. journalists on global issues through a wide variety of fellowships, conferences, and publications.
A graduate of Yale University, Lief is the recipient of many awards, including a National Press Club Award for diplomatic correspondence and a Hallie and Whit Burnett Award for Best General Magazine Article on Foreign Affairs.
Keith Richburg
Keith RichburgKeith Richburg
Keith Richburg is an American journalist, a longtime foreign correspondent for The Washington Post, and the author of Out of America, which detailed his experiences as a correspondent in Africa, during which he witnessed the Rwandan Genocide, a civil war in Somalia, and a cholera epidemic in...
has worked at The Washington Post
The Washington Post
The Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...
since 1980. His beats have ranged from the Metropolitan staff to assignments around the world. He served as Bureau Chief in Southeast Asia, Africa, and Paris, and now New York Bureau Chief.
Among Richburg's other numerous honors are an Overseas Press Club Award for Foreign Reporting and first place in the National Association of Black Journalists awards, both recognizing his outstanding coverage of Somalia. He has also received two George Polk Awards for his coverage of Somalia and Asia.
Richburg is the author of Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa (1997). A graduate of the University of Michigan, Richburg also holds a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics.
Neal Shapiro
Neal ShapiroNeal Shapiro
Neal B. Shapiro is the president of PBS station Thirteen/WNET New York City, installed in February 2007. He is the chief executive of the station's license holder, the Educational Broadcasting Corporation , which also operates the Long Island, New York, PBS outlet WLIW.- Life and Career :Shapiro...
has been a broadcast journalist for more than 25 years. He was President of NBC News
NBC News
NBC News is the news division of American television network NBC. It first started broadcasting in February 21, 1940. NBC Nightly News has aired from Studio 3B, located on floors 3 of the NBC Studios is the headquarters of the GE Building forms the centerpiece of 30th Rockefeller Center it is...
from August 2001 until September 2005, and directed the top rated news division through some of the most challenging stories of our time, including 9/11 and the war in Iraq. From 1993-2001, he was Executive Producer of Dateline
Dateline
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NBC, the first multi-night newsmagazine in television history. Since 2007, Shapiro has been the President and CEO of WNET
WNET
WNET, channel 13 is a non-commercial educational public television station licensed to Newark, New Jersey. With its signal covering the New York metropolitan area, WNET is a primary station of the Public Broadcasting Service and a primary provider of PBS programming...
, the public television company which operates Thirteen/WNET and WLIW21, the largest and third largest public television stations in the country.
Shapiro began his career at ABC News
ABC News
ABC News is the news gathering and broadcasting division of American broadcast television network ABC, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company...
and during his 13 years there he worked for every broadcast. He has won numerous journalism awards, including 23 Emmy awards, six Edward R. Murrow awards, and two Peabody Awards. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Tufts University
Tufts University
Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts. It is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and on the eastern border of France...
.
Crocker Snow, Jr.
Director of the The Edward R. Murrow Center for the Study and Advancement of Public Policy at The Fletcher School of Law and DiplomacyThe Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University is the oldest school in the United States dedicated solely to graduate studies in international affairs. It is regarded as one of the world's foremost schools of international affairs. Every Fall, the school enrolls approximately 265...
at Tufts University
Tufts University
Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts. It is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and on the eastern border of France...
, Crocker Snow
Crocker Snow, Jr.
Crocker Snow, Jr. is the current director Edward R. Murrow Center for Public Diplomacy at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He is a veteran American journalist.-Early life:...
is also president of the Boston-based Money Matters Institute, a public-private think tank engaged in research and creative initiatives for financing sustainable development.
Snow is a veteran journalist in the field of foreign affairs. During his career, he has worked for Newsweek
Newsweek
Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...
Magazine and WGBH
WGBH (FM)
WGBH is a public radio station located in Boston, Massachusetts. WGBH is a member station of NPR and PRI. The license-holder is the WGBH Educational Foundation, which also owns WGBH-TV and WGBX-TV....
public radio as a foreign correspondent in West Germany and for the Boston Globe variously as chief foreign correspondent, national and foreign editor, and assistant to the publisher. He was the founding editor and president from 1978-2001 of The World Paper, an international affairs publication that appeared in 27 countries and seven language editions, including Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Korean, and Arabic.
Snow’s work was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for reporting on East Asia. A graduate of Harvard University and the Fletcher School, Snow served as a U.S. Navy officer in Japan and Vietnam before starting in journalism.