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DNC, RNC Chairmen Review Presidential Campaign at Luncheon
The Democratic and Republican national committee chairman paid homage to their candidates, voters, and the political process, and fielded pointed questions from the audience today at a sold-out National Press Club luncheon. We accepted this invitation long before we knew how the election would turn out, and that was a bit of a risk, joked DNC Chairman Howard Dean who shared the stage today with RNC Chairman Robert M. (Mike) Duncan. My heart goes out to Mike, because I know he is in a tough spot. Nonetheless, a proud and admittedly sleep-deprived Dean announced that America chose hope over…
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Election Provided "Wake-up Call" for Traditional Media, Panel Says
SALT LAKE CITY - The way the presidential election was covered - and the public's reaction to it - was a wake-up call to traditional media that it must maintain its credibility if it is going to stayalive, leading journalists here told a National Press Club forum Thursday. "On Tuesday night, for the first time in the history of the craft, there were so many voices that it was very difficult to separate the voice of what we would call traditional media and the voice of all the others," said Con Psarras, news director at KSL-TV, the Salt Lake City NBC affiliate. "That confuses people." As the…
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Print Journalists Still Print -- and Shoot Video, and Take Photos, and Provide Live Commentary, Panel Says
"Newspapering" is no longer the strict job definition of USA Today correspondent Donna Leinwand, she told students at six universities in five Western states Monday. As she covered the aftermath of Hurricane Ike in Houston and Galveston, Leinwand traveled with a videographer through the devastated area. “I’m a print journalist, the type with a notepad,” she said, waving her notepad at the TV cameras in the Club's broadcast studio that was Webcasting the forum. “But we had a camera mounted to the front of the car, and I had a microphone as the photographer was driving down to Galveston,” she…
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Political Reporters Defend Election Coverage from Charges of Bias
CLEVELAND – Barack Obama may have gotten more favorable media coverage during the presidential campaign, but it was not because news reporters are biased, leading Cleveland political reporters told an NPC forum Wednesday. Tom Beres, senior political reporter for WKYC-TV3, said Obama ran such a different and such an effective campaign that describing it objectively made it sound like the reporter was biased toward the Democratic candidate. “It was hard to do a story that someone watching it wouldn’t say that the reporter must be leaning pretty heavily toward Obama,” Beres said. “Very often,…
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National Press Club Deplores Killing of Journalists
WASHINGTON – National Press Club President Sylvia Smith issued a statement on Friday on the news that three journalists have died violent deaths in recent days. “The National Press Club deplores the slaying of journalists killed in the pursuit of a story,” she said. "We must stand firmly against violence that would seek to inhibit a free press.” Armando Rodriguez, a crime reporter for the Mexican newspaper El Diario de Juarez, was shot Nov. 11 as he prepared to take his daughter to school. The National Association of Hispanic Journalists said the killing was "part of the growing wave of…
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Going Digital Doesn't Pay the Bills, Journalists Say at NPC Forum
NORMAN, Okla. – Ed Kelley, editor of the Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, said he is scrambling to move his news operation into online video as quickly as possible, even though the bulk of his organization's income still comes from advertising in the print newspaper. “Two years ago, we didn’t think video was even on the horizon,” Kelley told an NPC forum co-sponsored by the University of Oklahoma’s Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication. Now, he said, the newspaper has a broadcast studio that would rival a television station and a dozen people working on the video side of the news…
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BSO's Alsop Transforms Symphony and Makes Gender History, Too
Marin Alsop, music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and first woman to have that job with a major American orchestra, spoke humorously and passionately to her NPC Luncheon audience Monday about the “transformational power” of music in her life. "My parents were both professional musicians,” she said. “And because of that, my world was defined, colored and transformed by music. When I was a 9-year-old girl living in New York City, my father took me to a Young Peoples Concert at the New York Philharmonic. That was a day I will never forget because I fell under the spell of…
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New J School Requires Flexibility, Transparency, AZ State U Dean Says
PHOENIX – Constructing a new journalism building in this time of turmoil in the news business required planning versatility into the space so that it can change as journalism changes, Christopher Callahan, dean of Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, said Monday. The school is celebrating a weeklong “Cronkite Week” to honor the opening of its 100,000-square-foot building in downtown Phoenix. It invited the National Press Club to present its centennial documentary, “The National Press Club: A Century of Headlines,” as the opening event. “While…
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Prime Minister Says Turkey Can Be Guide to Financial Recovery
With its proximity to geopolitical hotspots like Iraq and Iran, Turkey often is a factor in international security developments. But Turkey also can provide leadership on the global financial crisis, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at a simultaneously translated Newsmaker on Friday, Nov. 14. Erdogan touted Turkey’s recovery from a severe economic setback in 2001-02. The country instituted structural reforms that have resulted in strong growth. Its economy has more than tripled in size in less than five years; income per capita grew from $7,214 in 2006 to $9,305 in 2007. Exports have…
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Hoyer Promises Dems Will Govern Responsibly, Work to Restore Economy
"Minorities don't win elections, and majorities often lose them," said Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), who spoke at Nov. 18 Newsmaker about the agenda for the 111th Congress and President-elect Obama. Now that Democrats are a national party for the first time in decades, "we must govern from the middle," he said, adding that "we will govern responsibly." American voters found Republican ideas wanting on Nov. 4, and it's possible that Republicans will now move toward a narrow agenda, Hoyer said. He said Congress and Obama are focused on restoring the health of the economy, but…
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