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Reporting on the Middle East
The panel's discussion focused on reporting on the Middle East.
Type: Media
Heroes and Heroines in Free Expression
The panel discussed role models, heroes, and heroines in perserving the freedom of expression.
Type: Media
Reporting National Security Information
The panel of journalists discussed the challenges involved in covering issues of national security.
Type: Media
Investigating Drug Trafficking
The panel of journalists focused on investigating drug trafficking and terrorism.
Type: Media
Free Expression Issues
This forum focused on journalism, freedom of speech and political cartoons. Mr. Trudeau led a panel of journalists and lawyers in a discussion of journalism and censorship.
Type: Media
Media Freedom in South Africa
A panel of two black and two white journalists from South Africa. They debated the different coverage that each of their newspapers gives to stories in their nation. They also talk about recent political changes in South Africa and the ways in which journalism has been affected. The panel is part of a forum entitled, "Free Expression and Global Media: Barriers and Boundaries."
Type: Media
Supreme Court Term Review
The Washington Legal Foundation sponsored a forum at the National Press Club to evaluate the decisions of the Supreme Court during its recently completed term. Issues involved in the decisions of the Supreme Court included allowing regulations to stand which prohibited doctors in federally funded clinics from mentioning abortion as an alternative for pregnant women, limitations in the number of appeals available to death row inmates, and allowing victim impact testimony in sentencing hearings. Panel members also discussed the implications of the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood…
Type: Media
American and Canadian Health Care
The forum met to debate the strengths and weaknesses of the United States and Canadian health care systems.
Type: Media
GATT Talks
The National Press Club Professional Affairs Committee discussed why the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs talks fell apart the previous week in Brussels.
Type: Media
U.S.-Soviet Relations
Gennadi Gerasimov, head of the Soviet Foreign Ministry's Information Directorate, spoke about U.S.-Soviet relations, recent political events in eastern Europe and tensions in the Persian Gulf. Mr. Gerasimov was in Washington this week to receive the 1990 Communicator of the Year Award from the National Association of Government Communicators.
Type: Media