- -: How to Produce International News on a Shoestring Budget
March 5, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/02/12/The_New_World_of_International_News Kira Kay, co-founder of The Bureau for International Reporting, explains how her non-profit is able to produce quality journalism from around the globe on a shoestring budget. "International news does not have to co...
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- -: Undercover Ethics: An Atheist Infiltrates the Church
April 5, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/03/23/Land_of_the_Believers_Evangelical_America Author Gina Welch reflects on the ethical dilemmas of lying to the members of Jerry Falwell's Thomas Road Baptist Church for her book In the Land of Believers. Welch describes struggling with what she came to ...
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- -: When Nixon Met Elvis: Tales of FOIA Document Requests
April 23, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/04/16/Logan_Symposium_How_the_Sausage_Is_Made_Journalists Professing to be a "documents fetishist," Thomas S. Blanton, Director of the National Security Archive, reflects on his experiences requesting documents via the Freedom of Information Act. The most r...
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- -: The Hamburger That Paralyzed Stephanie Smith
July 2, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/05/20/Michael_Moss_Inside_the_Food_Industry Michael Moss reflects on his Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times piece on Stephanie Smith, a young woman who contracted a paralyzing food-borne illness from a hamburger. Her tragic story, he says, served as a po...
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- -: Has the Press Release Killed the News?
October 5, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/08/10/John_Nichols_The_Death_and_Life_of_American_Journalism John Nichols, political blogger for The Nation, divides modern news into two categories: traditional journalism and press releases. He explains that a majority of stories now come from the latter ...
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- -: The Good Ol' Days of Journalism? - Andrew Sullivan
December 14, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/11/08/What_Is_the_Future_of_Media_Andrew_Sullivan_Jeff_Jarvis_Tina_Brown_and_Peter_Beinart Blogger Andrew Sullivan of "The Daily Dish" reminisces on the good old days of print journalism, which he jokes were fueled by alcohol and eccentric editors. "Today o...
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- -: WikiLeaks: Military Is Skewing War Casualties
January 6, 2011 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/07/26/WikiLeaks_Press_Conference_with_Julian_Assange WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange discusses apparent inconsistencies in the reporting of friendly fire events as exposed by the Afghan War Diaries. Assange implies that U.S. soldiers are misfiling ...
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- -: Introducing FORA.tv LEFT or RIGHT ... Just Not CENTER
April 1, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Try our new feature today: http://fora.tv/LEFTorRIGHT FORA.tv has always prided itself on being fiercely nonpartisan, but in an era of journalism where consumers demand subjectivity and bias, we're excited to introduce our latest feature: FORA.tv LEFT or RIGHT. You now have the ability to custom...
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- -: Stiglitz: Time to Rethink Fixation on GDP?
April 11, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/series/92y_politics Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz argues that GDP falls short as a measurement of a country's economic well-being. "While GDP per capita was going up, most Americans were getting worse off. Is that a good system?" asks Sti...
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- -: The Future of Journalism: Nonprofit?
April 25, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/04/10/Panel_The_State_of_Nonprofit_Investigative_Reporting Richard Tofel of ProPublica, discusses the future of nonprofit journalism in America and its dependence on philanthropic support. "Certain kinds of journalism are public goods, they're going to need...
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