Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities Symposium: War Reporting
“No News Is Bad News: The Role of the Media in Our Democracy” was the title of a daylong symposium presented by the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, hosted by Boston College. Panelists for the first session, on the topic of war reporting, were Kevin Cullen, who was a correspondent for the Boston Globe during the conflicts in Northern Ireland and the former Yugoslavia; David Greenberg of Rutgers University and author of Nixon’s Shadow: The History of an Image (W.W. Norton and Company, 2003); Samantha Power of the John F. Kennedy School of Government and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (Basic Books, 2002); and Anthony Shadid, a reporter for the Washington Post and author of Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s War (Henry Holt and Company, 2005).
Presenter(s): Kevin Cullen, David Greenberg, Samantha Power, Anthony Shadid
Date: November 17, 2007
Location: Robsham Theater
Sponsor(s): Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities
URL: http://frontrow.bc.edu/program/nonews1/
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