- OPEN MEDIA COVERAGE -

MONDAY “KALB REPORT” FORUM TO EXAMINE MEDIA FAILURES, SUCCESSES AND RESPONSIBILITY IN SERIAL SNIPER COVERAG

E xecutives and Reporters Working the Story to Gather at National Press Club for 8 p.m. Discussion on October 21

WASHINGTON – As the Washington area and the nation rely on the media for information on the serial sniper, the press is scrutinized for how it reports this unfolding story.  On Monday, October 21, journalist/scholar Marvin Kalb hosts a panel entitled “Media Coverage of the Sniper: Good Reporting, Good Citizenship.”  Panelists will include Kathryn Kross, CNN vice president and Washington bureau chief; David Roberts, vice president of news at Washington, D.C.’s WUSA-TV, Dan Raviv, national correspondent for CBS Radio Network News, and Jim Farley, vice president of news and programming at WTOP Radio.

The forum will take place on Monday, October 21^st at 8:00 p.m. in the National Press Club (National Press Building, 14^th and F Streets, NW, 13^th Floor).  Students interested in attending can reserve a seat by calling University Events at 994-7129 or emailing to use@gwu.edu.

"Once again the media is playing a central role in a major story,” said Kalb. “Is it playing that role well, informing the public, or, in its exuberance, is it interfering with police work?”

The Kalb Report series is co-sponsored by The George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs, The Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University and the National Press Club.  The series is underwritten by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

GW and the National Press Club have produced 29 programs in the "The Kalb Report" series since 1994.  Forums have covered issues at the intersection of public policy and the press, including talk show democracy and covering the private lives of public officials. 

Over a distinguished 30-year broadcast career Marvin Kalb served as chief diplomatic correspondent for CBS News and NBC News, and as moderator of "Meet the Press."  Among his many honors are two Peabody Awards, the DuPont Prize from Columbia University, and more than a half-dozen Overseas Press Club Awards.  He is currently executive director of the Shorenstein Center and has served as a visiting professor and visiting scholar at GW.

The executive producer of the Kalb Report is Michael Freedman, a vice president of GW and professorial lecturer in the GW School of Media and Public Affairs.  The former general manager of CBS Radio Network News is the recipient of more than 85 awards in broadcast journalism, including 12 Edward R. Murrow honors.

-- GW --

©1996-2004 The George Washington University Office of University Relations, Washington, D.C.
Contact gwnews@gwu.edu with questions and comments.