Events
Monday, October 26th, 4:00 pmJonathan Edwards Master’s Tea with Jack Ford,currently the anchor of “Jack Ford: Courtside” on IN SESSION (formerly Court TV) and the host of the PBS series “Inside the Law.” Master's House. Wednesday, October 28th, 4:00 pmDavenport College and Ink + Vellum, The Undergraduate Architecture Society, Present: Davenport College Master's Tea with Paul Goldberger, Pulitizer Prize-Winning Journalist / Architecture Critic for The New Yorker. Davenport College Common Room. Thursday, October 29th, 7:00 pmMedia Revolution: Putting the Media in the Hands of Citizen Journalists. Talk and Screening by Jason Silva and Max Lugavere, founding hosts and producers of Al Gore’s Current TV at the Slifka Center (80 Wall Street). Brought to you by the Slifka Center, Film Studies Department at Yale, Yale Journalism Initiative, and the Information Society Project at the Yale Law School. Friday, October 30th, 4:00 pmTrumbull College Master’s Tea with David Milch, Writer and Executive Producer, Creator of NYPD Blue and Deadwood. Trumbull Common Room 241 Elm Street. Wednesday, November 4, 7:30 pm"Saving the News," a symposium on the evolution of news hosted by the Yale University Department of Political Science. Journalists Ward Chamberlin, David Greenway, Robert Kaiser, and John Yemma will discuss the evolution in news delivery from print to broadcast to the Internet, and the consequences of that transition. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue Ward Chamberlin was one of the founders of public broadcasting in the United States, serving as the operating officer of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting at its inception in 1967. Mr. Chamberlin also assisted in the creation of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR). David Greenway served as the editor of the editorial and op-ed pages of the Boston Globe for six years. He began his career working in Time-Life News bureaus around the world and later opened the Washington Post’s Jerusalem bureau. When Mr. Greenway moved to the Boston Globe in 1978, he first worked as the paper’s foreign and national editor. He now writes a column for the Globe. Robert Kaiser is associate editor and senior correspondent of the Washington Post. In his time at the Post, he worked as a special correspondent in London, Saigon, and Moscow. Mr. Kaiser served as the paper’s managing editor from 1991 to 1998 before assuming his current role. John Yemma is the editor of the Christian Science Monitor. Under his editorial direction, the Monitor became the first major US-based newspaper to drop its daily print publication and shift to a Web-first format. Mr. Yemma previously worked at the Boston Globe, most recently leading the multimedia news operation The four guests will share their views and engage in an extended question-and-answer session concerning the past, present, and future of the news. Host Stanley Flink, a Yale lecturer, organizes a symposium each year as part of his Ethics and the Media undergraduate seminar. Tuesday, November 10, 4:00 pmCalhoun College Master’s Tea with Soledad O’Brien, CNN Anchor and Special Correspondent. Calhoun College, 189 Elm Street. Tuesday, November 10, 5:30 pmLecture, Soledad O’Brien, CNN Anchor and Special Correspondent. Levinson Auditorium, Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street Friday & Saturday, November 13 - 14"Journalism and the New Media Ecology: Who Will Pay the Messengers?" Two-day conference sponsored by the Yale Law School's Knight Law and Media Program. Scholars, national media leaders, and journalists will explore a number of topics including Who Uses News and How, Preserving Local Journalism, The Quest for Pay Models, Publicly Owned and Operated Media, The Changing Ecology of News Media, Non-Profit and Foundation Funded Models, Direct and Indirect Government Subsidies, and The View from the Newsroom. Registration is open, free of charge, to all Yale students and faculty. More information and registration, which is requested, is now available at www.law.yale.edu/lawandmedia. |
