September 18 — “Informing and Enlightening: Journalism’s Role in a Global War of Ideas”
To what degree to American journalists report the news, and to what degree do they project the US to the rest of the world. A group of DePauw alumni is answering this question every day.
When: Thursday September 18, 4:00-5:30 PM
Where: DePauw University, Greencastle IN
DePauw Discourse is a new University tradition of alumni and friends, distinguished guests, faculty and students participating in stimulating discourse about important public issues and popular topics of the day. The main speakers will be former Secretary of State Madelaine Albright and former Rep. Lee Hamilton.
Free and open to the public
The first panel discussion, primarily of DePauw alumni, deals with “Informing and Enlightening: Journalism’s Role in a Global War of Ideas”:
Bret Baier ’92, FOX News chief White House correspondent — Prior to being named chief White House correspondent, Bret Baier was a national security correspondent and reported on military and national security affairs, as well as on defense, military policy and the intelligence community from the Pentagon. He provided up-to-the-minute news coverage of the war in Iraq, and he was the only television reporter to travel with then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard Myers on the general’s first trip to Iraq following the capture of Saddam Hussein.
Douglas Frantz ’71, Condé Nast Portfolio senior writer — Douglas Frantz is a senior writer at Condé Nast Portfolio, a former editor and reporter at the New York Times and Los Angeles Times, and the author of nine nonfiction books. Frantz was part of a New York Times team that won the Pulitzer Prize for public service in 2002, and he is a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He has won the Worth Bingham investigative reporting prize twice and Harvard’s Goldsmith prize for investigative reporting. His most recent book, written with his wife, Catherine Collins, is The Nuclear Jihadist: The True Story of the Man Who Sold the World’s Most Dangerous Secrets … and How We Could Have Stopped Him.
Nisreen El-Shamayleh ’04, Saudi KSA2 correspondent in Amman, Jordan — Nisreen El-Shamayleh ia a correspondent for Saudi channel KSA2 in Amman, Jordan. After graduating from DePauw University as a Media Fellow and communications major in 2004, El-Shamayleh worked in Washington as a producer for Abu Dhabi TV and Reuters. Upon returning to Jordan in May 2005, El-Shamayleh reported for the top Arabic local daily newspaper. While freelancing for the Boston Globe, El-Shamayleh covered the Salafi Islamists in Maan as well as Abu Musab Al Zarqawi’s funeral in Zarqa.
Don Wycliff, former New York Times reporter and Chicago Tribune public editor, adjunct professor of media criticism at the University of Notre Dame — Don W. Wycliff teaches media criticism in the Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics and Democracy at the University of Notre Dame. He also writes occasional opinion articles for the The Chicago Tribune and Commonweal magazine. Wycliff spent 35 years in the newspaper industry as a reporter, editor, editorial writer and columnist. His career included stints of five years as a member of the editorial board of The New York Times, almost 10 years as editorial page editor of the The Chicago Tribune and five years as the Tribune’s public editor. In the last position, he wrote a widely read weekly column about issues in journalism.
Moderator: Robert Steele ’69, DePauw University Eugene S. Pulliam Distinguished Visiting Professor of Journalism, DePauw University — Robert M. Steele returned to DePauw in July 2008 as the Eugene S. Pulliam Distinguished Visiting Professor of Journalism. Steele’s duties include teaching in the Department of Communication and Theatre as well as service at the Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics. Steele was formerly the Nelson Poynter Scholar for Journalism Values and Senior Faculty in Ethics at The Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla. Throughout his career, Steele has stayed closely connected to newsrooms through his real-time coaching of journalists, news managers, editors, and media-leaders on ethics and values issues, and by leading ethics workshops for more than 75 newspapers, television stations, and newspaper and broadcast groups.
