Conference Schedule
March 16 - 18, 2004
Conference events are free of charge and open to the public, unless otherwise noted. Archived webcasts of both major events and smaller panel discussions are linked to when available. In some cases, PowerPoint presentations are also online.
Tuesday, March 16
9:00 AM
International Humanitarian Law and War Ethics. Elisa Munoz, Executive Director, Crimes of War Project and Roy Gutman, Senior Fellow U.S. Institute of Peace. View webcast. | Download PowerPoint.
11:15 AM
Accessing Military Information in Times of War. Lt. Colonel Richard Long, U.S. Marine Corps, Public Information Director. View webcast.
1:30 PM
Preparing for Reporting from the Battlefield. Paul Rees, Director, Centurion Risk Assessment. View webcast.
3:45 PM
Post-Traumatic Stress: The Psychological Effects of Covering War. Moderated by Sophie Beach, Senior Researcher, Committee to Protect Journalists. View webcast.
7:30 PM
Panel: The Los Angeles Times at War in Iraq
Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Hall
Chair: Rone Tempest, Senior Correspondent, Los Angeles Times
Panelists:
Bob Drogin, Intelligence Beat Reporter
Marjorie Miller, Foreign Editor
Tracy Wilkinson, Foreign Correspondent
David Zucchino, National Correspondent
Wednesday, March 17
9-9:15 AM
Welcome
Lipman Room, Barrows Hall
Orville Schell, Dean, Graduate School of Journalism
Eric Stover, Director, the Human Rights Center; Adjunct Professor, School of Public Health
9:30-11:30 AM
Panel: War Reporting
Lipman Room, Barrows Hall
Chair: Eric Stover, Director, Human Rights Center; Adjunct Professor, School of Public Health
This panel will examine the evolution of war reporting throughout history. Speakers will discuss the relationship between the media and the military as it has unfolded in modern war, as well as the coverage of international humanitarian law during armed conflicts and occupation.
Panelists:
Victor Davis Hanson, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; author of "Mexifornia, Ripples of Battle and Between War and Peace"
Phillip Knightley, author of "The First Casualty - From the Crimea to the Falklands: the War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist and Myth Maker"
Susan Meiselas, Magnum photographer and author of "Nicaragua and Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History"
Susan Moeller, Assistant Professor, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland; author of "Shooting War: Photography and the American Experience of Combat"
View webcast
12:00 – 1:00 PM
Lunch Keynote Address
Lipman Room, Barrows Hall
Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, former Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy, Iraq.
Introduction by Sandy Tolan, Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Journalism.
1:15-3:15 PM
Panel: War, Patriotism and the Independence of the Press
Lipman Room, Barrows Hall
In times of war, patriotism looms large as the driving force that directs attitudes towards the conflict. As the guardians of truth and open debate, the media is pressured on all sides to assure that what it reports is accurate but does not undermine morale. This panel addresses the force of wartime patriotism in the United States and the “double bind” that embedded reporters faced.
Chair: Harvey Weinstein, Associate Director, Human Rights Center; Clinical Professor, School of Public Health
Panelists:
Todd Gitlin, Professor of Journalism and Sociology, Columbia University
Frank Ochberg, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Adjunct Professor of Criminal Justice, and Adjunct Professor of Journalism, Michigan State University; Chair Emeritus, Executive Committee, Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma
Robert O. Sinclair, Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Marine Corps; National Security Affairs Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Barbie Zelizer, Professor, Annenberg School of Communication and University of Pennsylvania, co-author of "Journalism After September 11"
David Zucchino, National Correspondent, Los Angeles Times
3:15-3:30 PM
Coffee Break
Lipman Room, Barrows Hall
3:30 - 5:30 PM
Panel: Is the U.S. Media Serving the American Public?
Lipman Room, Barrows Hall
Historically, wartime always brings pressure on everyone, journalists included,
to support the troops and back the national war aims. Did – and do –
U.S. reporters in Iraq succumb to those pressures? Do they reflect primarily
the outlook and priorities of the American military and occupation authorities?
Or have they been adequately skeptical and critical of all centers of power
in Iraq: the old regime, the new, the principal factions?
Chair: Adam Hochschild, writer and author of "King Leopold's Ghost: A
Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa"
Panelists:
Tom Englehardt, author of "The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation," and Lecturer, Graduate School of Journalism
Rick Long, lieutenant colonel and public information officer, U.S. Marine Corps
Michael Massing, writer, New York Review of Books
Jonathan Schell, Visiting Professor, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, author of "The Gift of Time and The Unconquerable World"
Jacqueline Sharkey, Journalism Department Head, Soldwedel Professor of Journalism, University of Arizona; author of "Under Fire"
7:30 PM
Weapons of Mass Destruction: Truth and Its Consequences
Zellerbach Hall (*ticket required)
Christiane Amanpour, CNN, in conversation with Hans Blix, former United Nations chief weapons inspector in Iraq.
Introductions by Orville Schell, Dean, Graduate School of Journalism.
Thursday March 18
8:30-10:00 AM
Panel: World View: Europe and Asia
Lipman Room, Barrows Hall
Seldom in recent history has overseas reporting been more at odds with that
of the U.S. press. Senior foreign correspondents and editors from Europe and
Asia discuss the reasons behind the often starkly different perspectives in
covering Iraq.
Chair: Rone Tempest, Senior Correspondent, Los Angeles Times
Panelists:
Nayan Chanda, Editor of YaleGlobal Online, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization; former Deputy Editor & Editor at Large, Far Eastern Economic Review
Patrice Claude, Correspondent, Le Monde
Frederico Rampini, West Coast and Pacific Rim Correspondent, La Republica
Richard Sambrook, Director, BBC News
10:00-10:15 AM
Coffee Break
Lipman Room, Barrows Hall
10:15 AM– 11:45 AM
Panel: World View: The Middle East
Lipman Room, Barrows Hall
Coverage of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), the war on the ground, the
post-war occupation, and the geopolitics of empire were often dramatically
different outside the U.S. This panel considers divergent views from the Arab
world and Israel.
Chair: Sandy Tolan, Correspondent, National Public Radio; Visiting Professor,
Graduate School of Journalism
Panelists:
Maher Abdallah Ahmad, Correspondent, Al Jazeera
Lamis Andoni, Freelance Journalist, who has published in Jordan Times, Al-Ahram, and Al-Hayat; Lecturer, Graduate School of Journalism
Zvi Barel, reporter, Haaretz
Hani Shukrallah, Managing Editor, Al Ahram Weekly
12:00 - 1:15 PM
Lunch Keynote Discussion
Lipman Room, Barrows Hall
Michael Massing, writer, New York Review of Books
Mark Danner, Professor, Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley and Staff Writer, The New Yorker
1:30 - 3:30 PM
Panel : Broadcast News and the Business of War
Lipman Room, Barrows Hall
Most people throughout the world get most of their news and information about global affairs through broadcast. How well have American broadcasters done in being balanced, informative and comprehensive in their coverage? What have the strengths and weaknesses of U.S. broadcast coverage been?
Chair: Orville Schell, Dean, Graduate School of Journalism
Panelists:
Deborah Amos, NPR & ABC Nightline
Mike Cerre, Correspondent, ABC Nightline
Teya Ryan, former Executive Vice President & General Manager, CNN/US
Martin Smith, Producer/Reporter, PBS/Frontline; producer of "Truth, War & Consequences" and "Beyond Baghdad"
3:30- 3:45 PM
Coffee Break
Lipman Room, Barrows Hall
3:45 - 5:45 PM
Panel: Reporting on the Occupation
Lipman Room, Barrows Hall
What are the special challenges for reporters covering the occupation in Iraq, especially given the insurgents’ clear goal of influencing the American public and its leaders via the American press? How can correspondents fairly report a war that consists of small operations intended to be spectacular, thus generating press coverage that could weaken the determination of Americans to stay the course?
Chair: Elizabeth Farnsworth, Senior Correspondent, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer
Panelists:
Robert Collier, Correspondent, San Francisco Chronicle
Mark Danner, Professor, Graduate School of Journalism, and Staff Writer, The New Yorker
Theola Labbé, Correspondent, The Washington Post
Hania Mufti, Senior Middle East Researcher, Human Rights Watch, now based
in Baghdad
Ed Wong, Correspondent, New York Times
7:30 PM
Did We Get it Right? The Media at War in Iraq
Zellerbach Hall (*ticket required)
Introductions by:
Phil Bronstein, Editor and Executive Vice President, San Francisco Chronicle
Eric Stover, Director, Human Rights Center
Chair: Loren Jenkins, Senior Foreign Editor, National Public Radio
Panelists:
Maher Abdallah Ahmad, Correspondent, Al Jazeera
John Burns, Baghdad Bureau Chief, The New York Times
Lindsey Hilsum, Diplomatic Correspondent, ITN Channel 4 News
Robert Scheer, Syndicated Columnist, Los Angeles Times
Leroy Sievers, Executive Producer, ABC Nightline
Friday, March 19
8:30 AM Confronting Government Secrecy to Report on National Security. Secrets. Scott Armstrong, Executive Director, Information Trust
9:40 AM
Reporting on the National Guard and Reservist Call-Up. Moderated by Jim Crawley, Military Affairs Reporter, San Diego Tribune.
Download PowerPoint | View Webcast
11:15 AM
Arc of Crisis: Can Journalists Affect the Course of War? Moderated by Bill Drummond, Professor UC Berekely Graduate School of Journalism and Jane Ellen Stevens, Lecturer, UC Berekely Graduate School of Journalism
With: Philip Albers, Project Manger, Small Arms Survey, Geneva Switzerland. Phillip a. Schrodt, Professor of Political Science, University of Kansas, Anita Sharma, Director of the Conflict Prevention Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center, Phillip Knightley, Journalist and author of "The First Casualty - From the Crimea to the Falklands, the War Correspndent as Hero" and "Propagandist and Myth Maker."
Download PowerPoint of Phillip Schrodt presentation. | View Webcast
Ticket Information
* Indicates a ticketed event at Zellerbach Hall. Tickets must be purchased
through Cal Performances:
510-642-9988
General admission is $10/person; free for U.C. Berkeley students.
All other conference events are free of charge and open to the public.
Sponsors
Graduate School of Journalism
Human Rights Center
Office of the Chancellor
University of California, Berkeley
Co-Sponors
The Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism Training
The Commonwealth Club
San Francisco Chronicle
The World Affairs Council
With Support from
Office of the Chancellor
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
The Open Society Institute
Barbro Osher, Consul General of Sweden
The Sandler Family Supporting Foundation
Guy Saperstein
Steve Silberstein
