- -: Jim Lehrer on Covering the JFK Assassination
April 9, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/04/05/NewsHour_with_Legendary_Journalist_Jim_Lehrer Jim Lehrer, author and news anchor for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, discusses his experience as a young reporter covering the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, including an exchange with the Sec...
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- -: Was Bernie Madoff Skyping Under House Arrest? - Rhonda Schwartz
April 16, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/04/04/Reporting_on_Domestic_Corruption Rhonda Schwartz, ABC News producer, describes the findings of her investigative team as they watched Bernie Madoff while under house arrest. Schwartz recalls, "He was sitting there happily, having a little Perrier, wor...
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- -: Did Media Ignore Autopsy Reports on Iraqi Prisoners?
June 9, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/20/Censored_2009_The_Top_25_Censored_Stories_of_2007-08 Professor Peter Phillips reprimands mainstream media for underreporting autopsy reports released in 2006 that listed homicide as the cause of death for dozens of Iraqi and Afghani civilians held in ...
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- -: Should the Government Bail Out Newspapers?
July 13, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/06/29/Newspapers_are_Dead_Now_What Phil Bronstein, editor at large for the San Francisco Chronicle, and Lowell Bergman, producer / correspondent for the PBS series Frontline, debate the value of public versus private funding of newspapers. Bronstein says, "...
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- -: Lewis Black Rails on Coverage of Michael Jackson's Death
July 22, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/02/Lewis_Black_Me_Of_Little_Faith Grammy Award-winning comedian Lewis Black rants on the excessive news coverage of Michael Jackson's death. "If they had devoted half the time, all 24-hour news cycles, to any problem that we have as a nation, we could ha...
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- -: The Problem With Paper News - Chris Anderson
July 28, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/16/Chris_Anderson_on_FREE_The_Future_of_Radical_Price Chris Anderson, WIRED editor and author of FREE, explains how some newspapers will survive in a world of free. "There's two problems with newspapers: the news and the paper," says Anderson. ----- Ch...
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- -: The Casual Gamer Phenomenon: Wii Fit in NYT Style Section
July 28, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/02/20/Video_Game_Journalism--Who_Cares A panel of journalists discuss how the growing popularity of video games has changed the style and appeal of video game journalism. As more casual gamers are drawn in by user friendly consoles like the Nintendo Wii, ga...
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- -: Will Wikipedia Replace Science Journals? - Jimmy Wales
August 4, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/28/Making_the_Web_Work_for_Science "Science is a conversation...about the facts of reality," says Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. In contrast to the top-down "old models of thinking," Wales believes science is a natural fit for the participatory style of ...
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- -: 10 Myths About Blogs - Scott Rosenberg
August 7, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/29/Scott_Rosenberg_Say_Everything_How_Blogging_Began Scott Rosenberg, Salon co-founder and author of Say Everything, gives his list of the top 10 myths about blogging. "I will boil down to you to fewer syllables than a haiku: some bloggers are doing jour...
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- -: Is Twitter a Reliable Source for News? - Andrew Sullivan
August 19, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/01/Tweeting_The_Revolution Jeffrey Goldberg and Andrew Sullivan discuss the reliability of Twitter postings as a source for news of events in Iran. Sullivan takes them as true, first-person accounts on the ground while Goldberg defends the necessity of a...
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