Frontline on iPad: The Future of Investigative Journalism? April 28, 2010

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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/04/16/Logan_Symposium_Investigative_Reporting_on_TV

David Fanning, award-winning producer of the investigate documentary series Frontline, speculates on the Apple iPad's potential as a platform for the series. He finds the iPad "very exciting," and sees it as a more appropriate canvas for Frontline than the iPhone.

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A panel of experts discuss the complexities of investigative journalism from a reporter's perspective. They discuss the challenges of going in-depth on a story, and explore the new opportunities that online media presents.

The journalists include: Raney Aronson-Rath, PBS' FRONTLINE; Jeff Fager, CBS' 60 Minutes; David Fanning, PBS' FRONTLINE. The panel is moderated by Dean Neil Henry. - Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

David Fanning has been executive producer of FRONTLINE since its first season in 1983. In 2007, after 24 seasons and more than 485 films, FRONTLINE remains America's only regularly scheduled investigative documentary series on television. The series has won all of the major awards for broadcast journalism, including 32 Emmys, 22 duPont-Columbia University Awards, 12 Peabody Awards and nine Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards.

In 1990 and in 1996, FRONTLINE was recognized with the Gold Baton - the highest duPont-Columbia Award - for its "total contribution to the world of exceptional television." In 2002, the series was honored with an unprecedented third Gold Baton for its post-Sept. 11 coverage, a series of seven hour-long documentaries on the origins and impact of terrorism.

In 2003, "A Dangerous Business," a FRONTLINE/New York Times joint investigation of the cast-iron pipe-making industry was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for public service. And in 2007, the series won a Special Emmy Award for Excellence in Television Documentary Filmmaking.