Archived Webcasts

Webcast events recently held at or sponsored by the J-School,
listed in reverse chronological order.

June 14, 2009
Knight Digital Media Center June 2009 Lecture Series
The Knight Digital Media Center's June 14-19 Multimedia Training Workshop for journalists is under way. For those not able to attend, we're webcasting most of our noon and evening presentations.

May 19, 2009
Knight Digital Media Center May 2009 Lecture Series
The Knight Digital Media Center's May 17-23 Multimedia Training Workshop for journalists is under way. For those not able to attend, we're presenting most of our noon and evening speakers as

March 22, 2009
Knight Digital Media Center March 2009 Lecture Series
The Knight Digital Media Center's March 22-27 Multimedia Training Workshop for journalists is under way. For those not able to attend, we're presenting most of our noon and evening speakers as live webcasts.

March 16, 2009
The SF Chronicle in Transition
A panel discussion about the plight of Northern California's largest daily newspaper.

February 23, 2009
Practicing Journalism in the Middle East
Launching a Career as a Foreign Correspondent.

February 18, 2009
Will the New York Times Survive?
A Dialogue on the Future of Journalism

February 17, 2009
Knight Digital Media Center February 2009 Lecture Series
The Knight Digital Media Center invites you to attend the guest speaker presentations for the February 2009 Technology Tools Workshop, in the Journalism School's Bayley Library. These presentations will be webcast live, and available as streaming video archives the following week.

January 29, 2009
"SNARK: It's Mean, It's Personal, and It's Ruining Our Conversation"
David Denby, film critic for The New Yorker, and author of the just-released book, SNARK: It's Mean, It's Personal, and It's Ruining Our Conversation, will sign and talk about his book with linguist and professor Geoff Nunberg of the I-School.

October 22, 2008
An Evening with Legendary Psychologist Paul Ekman, on His New Book with the Dalai Lama
Ekman--one of the world's foremost authorities on emotions and facial expressions, and a member of Greater Good magazine's editorial board--will present highlights from his groundbreaking conversations with the Dalai Lama on the roots of love, compassion, anger, and morality.

July 6, 2008
Knight Digital Media Center July 2008 Lecture Series
The New Media Lecture Series is part of a week-long multimedia training workshop for mid-career journalists sponsored by the school. Panel speakers are webcast live.

June 8, 2008
Knight Digital Media Center June 2008 Lecture Series
The New Media Lecture Series is part of a week-long multimedia training workshop for mid-career journalists sponsored by the school. Panel speakers are webcast live.

May 18, 2008
Knight Digital Media Center May 2008 Lecture Series
The New Media Lecture Series is part of a week-long multimedia training workshop for mid-career journalists sponsored by the school. Panel speakers are webcast live.

May 6, 2008
Grand Theft Childhood?
To celebrate the release of its new issue on play, Greater Good magazine is hosting a panel discussion that will reveal the newest facts about video game play, and what guidelines they suggest for parents, teachers, kids, and the people who create the games. A Q&A will follow the discussion.

April 16, 2008
Knight Digital Media Center April 2008 Lecture Series
The New Media Lecture Series is part of a week-long multimedia training workshop for mid-career journalists sponsored by the school. Panel speakers were webcast live. Archived webcasts are available by clicking the event titles below.

March 25, 2008
Knight Digital Media Center March 2008 Lecture Series
The New Media Lecture Series is part of a week-long multimedia training workshop for mid-career journalists sponsored by the school. Panel speakers were webcast live. Archived webcasts are available by clicking the event titles below.

January 6, 2008
Knight Digital Media Center January 2008 Lecture Series
The New Media Lecture Series is part of a week-long multimedia training workshop for mid-career journalists sponsored by the school. Panel speakers will be webcast live.

December 16, 2007
Knight Digital Media Center December 2007 Lecture Series
The New Media Lecture Series is part of a week-long multimedia training workshop for mid-career journalists sponsored by the school. Panel speakers will be webcast live.

November 5, 2007
The Death of Environmentalism
Michael Pollan talks to the authors of Break Through, a book about finding a better way to address the threat of global warming and about the larger failure of American liberalism to reinvent itself.

November 5, 2007
Extraordinary Rendition
FRONTLINE/World presents a sneak preview of our Nov. 6 broadcast story, "Extraordinary Rendition" and a chance to meet investigative reporter Stephen Grey, author of the acclaimed book, Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA's Rendition and Torture Program (St. Martin's, 2006).

October 17, 2007
The 21st Century Family
A panel discussion was held on October 17, 2007 to celebrate Greater Good's Fall 2007 issue on "The 21st Century Family." The panel featured family experts discussing how the American family is changing, and how it can still thrive during this period of transition.

September 24, 2007
2007 Grantham Prize Seminar on the State of Environment via LIVE WEBCAST
Climate change is taking more air time and column inches, and influencing more reporting beats than ever before, compelling a new level of quality in news reporting. Now you can learn how prize-winning journalists cover this complex news.

July 23, 2007
Religion in Second Life
Fellows from the News21 journalism initiative and their faculty advisors launch a groundbreaking experiment bringing important journalism and ongoing discussions about faith to Second Life, the innovative virtual community.

May 20, 2007
Spring New Media Lecture Series (May 2007)
Featured speakers are Tom Mallory, Chuck Scott, Alexa Capeloto, Nicole Vargas of the San Diego Tribune; Seth Gitner and Lindsey Nair of Roanoke.com; Brian Storm of MediaStorm.org; Richard Koci Hernandez of the San Jose Murcury News; Rob Curley of Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive and Colin Crawford of IDG Communications.

May 5, 2007
The CIA in Fact and Fiction
Lowell Bergman joins The New York Times' Tim Wiener, CIA chief historian David Robarge, former FBI espionage chief Mike Rochford, former CIA veterans Norb Garrett and Milt Bearden and Eric Roth to discuss the myths and reality of intelligence and counterintelligence.

March 25, 2007
Spring New Media Lecture Series (March 2007)
Featured speakers are Joe Howry, Anthony Plascencia, Colleen Cason, Tom Kisken, Ventura County Star; Lisa Stone, Blog Her; Kevin Sites, Yahoo!; Sean Connelley and Katy Newton, Oakland Tribune; Rob Curley, Washingtonpost. Newsweek Interactive; Matt McAlister, Yahoo!

March 21, 2007
Food Fight: A Teach-in On the 2007 Farm Bill
Michael Pollan will moderate a panel discussion of the 2007 farm bill, now being debated, with guests Dan Imhoff, the author of Food Fight: The Citizen's Guide to a Food and Farm Bill; George Naylor, Iowa corn farmer and president of the National Family Farms Coalition; Ann Cooper, Director of Nutrition Services for the Berkeley school system, and Carlos Marentes, director of Sin Fronteras Border Agricultural Workers Project, and Ken Cook, president of the Environmental Working Group in the effort to reform federal agricultural policies.

March 12, 2007
Writing for the Greater Good: Celebrating the New Issue of Greater Good Magazine
Join us for a panel discussion to celebrate the latest issue of Greater Good, the acclaimed new magazine based at UC Berkeley. The panel will feature the magazine's editors and contributors, including legendary psychologist Philip Zimbardo and New Orleans Times-Picayune photographer Ted Jackson.

February 27, 2007
The Past, Present, and Future of Food
Whole Foods Market is the largest organic and natural retailer in the world. The co-founder and CEO of the company will offer a multimedia presentation of the past, present, and future of food. Mackey will then join Pollan in conversation, continuing in person the exchange of views the two have been conducting since the publication of Pollan's 2006 book, "The Omnivore's Dilemma."

February 6, 2007
The View From Abroad: Is America Broken?
This event is SOLD OUT. If you do not have a ticket, please join us in Room 145 Dwinelle Hall to view a live video feed of this event. John Micklethwait, the newly appointed Editor-in-chief of The Economist, talks with Orville Schell, Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism, about the direction he is taking the magazine, and about America's role in the world.

January 25, 2007
Manifesto for Change
Geneva Overholser, who holds the Curtis B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting for the Missouri School of Journalism, has spent more than a year examining the future of journalism and produced, "A Manifesto for Change." She will discuss her findings during this event.

December 10, 2006
Winter New Media Lecture Series (December 2006)
Featured speakers are Howard Rheingold, "Smart Mobs" author; Travis Fox, Washington Post; Robert Hood, msnbc.com; Al Bonner, Lawrence.com; Seth Gitner, Roanoke Times; Seth Familian, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business; Joe Howry, Bruce McLean, Colleen Cason and Tom Kisken, Ventura County Star

November 14, 2006
GMOs and the Law
Please join us for a talk by Percy Schmeiser, a Canadian farmer who battled Monsanto all the way to the Supreme Court, followed by a conversation with Professor Michael Pollan, Ignacio Chapela and Schmeiser.

November 9, 2006
Kevin Sites: Conflict Journalism in the Digital Age
Kevin Sites of Yahoo! News will discuss his solo journalism approach to digital story-telling. Sites is Yahoo!'s first news correspondent, covering a number of major global conflicts for "Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone" on Yahoo! News in the last year.

October 19, 2006
The Washington Post at War
A panel of reporters and editors from The Washington Post will discuss their experiences covering Iraq. The panel includes Rajiv Chandrasekaran, former Iraq bureau chief and author of "Imperial Life in Emerald City;" Steven Fainaru, a 2006 Pulitzer Prize finalist for his Iraq coverage; Post stringer Omar Fekeiki and Jackie Spinner, Post Staff Writer, former Iraq correspondent, and author of, "Tell Them I Didn't Cry: A Young Journalists Story of Joy, Loss, and Survival in Iraq."

September 19, 2006
Consequences of the War on Terrorism
Featuring: George Soros, philanthropist and author of "The Age of Fallibility: The Consequences of the War on Terrorism"; Lowell Bergman, PBS Frontline Correspondent, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and The Reva and David Logan Distinguished Professor of Investigative Reporting, UC Berkeley; Dana Priest, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and National Security Correspondent for The Washington Post; Mark Danner, author of "The Secret Way to War" and "Torture and Truth," MacArthur Fellow and Professor of Journalism, UC Berkeley; Christopher Edley, Jr., Dean, Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley; Moderated by Orville Schell, Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism.

May 23, 2006
China - U.S. Climate Change Forum
The China-U.S. Climate Change Forum is being organized by the Berkeley China Initiative, which is forging closer ties between U.C. Berkeley and China by bringing together key experts on important international and bilateral issues. Growing concern over climate change makes this topic an obvious choice for the first of this series of annual events.

May 21, 2006
Summer New Media Lecture Series (May 2006)
The Graduate School of Journalism presents the Summer 2006 New Media Lecture Series featuring top reporters, editors and executives at online newsrooms around the country discussing topics in online publishing and digital storytelling.

May 3, 2006
Careers in Digital Journalism
The Graduate School of Journalism and the Online News Association are hosting a noon-time discussion by top editors at leading new media companies about working at online news organizations and the new newsroom environment.

April 25, 2006
Is the Media Failing America?
A Herb Caen San Francisco Chronicle Lecture featuring Dan Rather in conversation with Orville Schell, Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism. Rather was anchor and managing editor for the CBS Evening News for 24 years, and now serves as a correspondent for 60 Minutes and hosts and produces long form programming examining major global topics and events for the Discovery Channel.

April 17, 2006
The Omnivore's Dilemma
Knight Professor of Journalism Michael Pollan will discuss his new book, "Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals," with Davia Nelson of NPR's The Kitchen Sisters.

April 8, 2006
From Newscast to Podcast: The Future of Radio Journalism
Come hear veteran public radio journalist Robert Siegel reflect on the state of the medium he loves. Siegel will discuss trends in news and broadcasting and their impact on the kind of radio journalism he practices.

March 27, 2006
Spring New Media Lecture Series (March 2006)
The Graduate School of Journalism presents the Spring 2006 New Media Lecture Series with noon and evening presentations on citizen journalism, multimedia and other topics related to online media. The speakers are Craig Newmark of craigslist, Dan Gillmor of the Center for Citizen Media, John Battelle, author of "The Search," Jan Schaffer of the Institute for Interactive Journalism, Bob Cauthorn of City Tools, Terisa Estacio of KRON-TV, Regina McCombs of Startribune.com, and a panel of reporters and editors from the Oakland Tribune.

March 13, 2006
Iraq: Reports from the Frontlines
A panel of leading war correspondents from publications around the world will discuss their experiences covering Iraq. The panel includes John Burns from The New York Times, Dean Orville Schell, and writers from The Washington Post, and The San Francisco Chronicle. Preceding the discussion will be a 30-minute preview of "The War Tapes." The first documentary filmed by soldiers in Iraq (from the executive producer of "The Fog of War.") Introduced by Phil Bronstein, Executive Vice President and Editor of The San Francisco Chronicle.

March 6, 2006
Can Newspapers Survive and Serve the Public Interest?
Please join us for a conversation with Orville Schell, Dean of UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Jouranlism, and Alan Rusbridger, Editor of The Guardian newspaper in London since 1995. The Guardian, founded in 1821, is a leading national newspaper with a long history of editorial and political independence. Rusbridger was previously a reporter, columnist, features editor and deputy editor of The Guardian.

January 30, 2006
Writing for the Greater Good: A Launch Party for Greater Good Magazine
Please join us to celebrate the publication of the latest issue of Greater Good, the new magazine based at UC Berkeley. Panelists, including UC Berkeley Professor Arlie Hochschild, will discuss the new issue's contents and the magazine's unique blend of science reporting and storytelling, explaining how freelance writers can contribute. Jason Marsh, class of 2005, is a co-editor of the magazine. See event details for more information.

November 15, 2005
Jack Hitt: The Art of the Query
Back by popular demand, Jack Hitt's Query Workshop. Hitt is a regular contributor to Harper's Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, and This American Life. Aside from a brief stint as senior editor at Harper's, he's worked freelance his entire career. This event has been archived as streaming audio (even though it says "video").

November 9, 2005
An evening with Robert J. Birgeneau Chancellor and Professor of Physics
Please join us for an evening with Robert J. Birgeneau, Chancellor and Professor of Physics at UC Berkeley, in conversation with Dean Orville Schell of the Graduate School of Journalism.

November 7, 2005
Jung Chang and Jon Halliday: "Mao: The Unkown Story"
In their new book, "Mao -- The Unknown Story," Jung Chang and Jon Halliday make an impassioned case for a reevaluation of China's leader Mao Tse-Tung as a tyrant worse than Stalin or Hitler. Chang and Halliday will discuss Mao's role with Dean Orville Schell.

October 20, 2005
Mao's Revolution: What Remains
Featuring Roderick MacFarquhar, the Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard University. The lecture will be followed by a conversation with Orville Schell, Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley.

October 4, 2005
Political Dinner Seminar: Prof. Bruce Cain
BEHIND CALIFORNIA'S SPECIAL ELECTION - Professor Bruce Cain, director of Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies and newly appointed head of the University of California Center in Washington D.C., discusses the political and policy consequences of the Nov. 8 Special Election.

May 23, 2005
New Media Summer Public Lecture Series (May 2005)
A series of presentations on multimedia storytelling, citizen journalism and other new media topics featuring Ken Sands of the Spokane Spokesman-Review; Bob Cauthorn of City Tools; Regina McCombs of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune; Amy Hill of the Center for Digital Storytelling; Dan Gillmor of Grassroots Media; G. Donald Bain of UC Berkeley's Geography Computing Facility; Landis Bennett of World Wide Panorama; Mary Lou Fulton of Northwest Voice; Amgine (Wayne Saewyc) of Wikinews and Rob Curley of the Lawrence Journal-World.

May 13, 2005
Maureen Dowd and Tom Friedman
Friday May 13th at Zellerbach Hall, The Graduate School of Journalism presented "Being Opinionated in America" with world-renowned NYT columnists and book authors Maureen Dowd and Thomas Friedman in conversation with Cynthia Gorney and Mark Danner. Webcast of the program is currently available for viewing!

April 19, 2005
Journalists Under Fire: Vietnam & Iraq
Photographers Catherine Leroy, David Lesson and Don McCullin & Journalists Jonathan Schell and Mike Cerre share their experiences and expressions of war in the field.

April 14, 2005
All the News That's Fit to Sell
James Hamilton, professor of Economics at Duke University, examines how economic forces affect media content.

March 30, 2005
Founding Mothers
Cokie Roberts in conversation with Cynthia Gorney. Roberts' latest book, "Founding Mothers", offers stories of the women who raised this nation. Tickets are currently on-sale through Cal Performances.

March 21, 2005
New Media Public Lecture Series (March 2005)
A series of presentations on new media and multimedia storytelling featuring Noah Glass of Odeo and Audioblogger; Andria Ruben McCool of Keyhole; Regina McCombs of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune; Bill Gannon of Yahoo!; Craig Newmark of craigslist; Amy Hill of the Center for Digital Storytelling; Terry Moore of the Orange County Register; Mary Miller of the Exploratorium, and Rob Curley of the Lawrence Journal-World.

March 17, 2005
The Consequences of Confidential Sources: Jail?
Judith Miller in conversation with Lowell Bergman. Tickets are currently on-sale through Cal Performances.

February 24, 2005
Beyond Organic: The Story of Polyface Farm
Joel Salatin of Polyface Farm, in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, is one of the most innovative, successful and influential farmers working in America today.

February 9, 2005
Report From Baghdad: What Really Happened in the Iraqi Election
Mark Danner, Professor at the Graduate School of Journalism and Author of "Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror", returns from Iraq to give us a first person account of the election process and what it means for the future of Iraq.

February 7, 2005
The Quest for Safety in a Networked World
In post-9/11 world, new technology is providing better means of achieving true homeland security while at the same time furthering the potential for techno-abetted terror. Katrina Heron, Martha Baer and Evan Ratliff are co-authors of "SAFE: The Race To Protect Ourselves In a Newly Dangerous World"

January 26, 2005
The Creation of The Media
Sociologist Paul Starr will discuss the shaping of communications in Europe and the U.S. from the 17th to mid-20th centuries. His new book argues that political decisions from the founding of the republic led to America's comparative advantage in communications and to American media's wide impact. Interviewed by Tom Goldstein, Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications and Director of Mass Communications Program

October 27, 2004
The Photographer As Activist
A conversation with Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism adjunct professor Ken Light and Photo Critic and Curator Fred Ritchin. This event was webcast live. A video archive is now available.

October 26, 2004
Global Climate Change: What Are The Facts?
Presentation on global warming and the environment by Former Vice President Al Gore, followed by a conversation with Orville Schell, Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism.

October 25, 2004
Has the Press Failed in Iraq: War, Torture and Accountability
A panel discussion with Robert Silvers, co-editor, New York Review of Books; Michael Massing, writer and author of "Now They Tell Us", and Graduate School of Journalism Professor Mark Danner.

October 12, 2004
Bush Science
A panel discussion on the science policies of the Bush administration featuring David Baltimore, Kurt Gottfried, Bruce Buckheit, David Guston and Andrew Eller. Moderated by Michael Pollan. This event was webcast live.

October 8, 2004
California First Amendment Coalition Annual Assembly
Featured speaker will be journalist and New Yorker writer Sy Hersh

October 6, 2004
8th Annual Mario Savio Memorial Lecture & Young Activist Award
Part of the Savio Memorial Lecture Series featuring Molly Ivins, a nationally-syndicated political columnist, author of "Bushwhacked! life in George Bush's America" and the new "Who Let the Dogs In?: Incredible Political Animals I Have Known"

October 4, 2004
Debate: Does America Need A New President?
William Kristol is Editor of the Washington-based political magazine, The Weekly Standard, and co-author, "The War Over Iraq." Mark Danner is a professor at the Graduate School of Journalism and author of "Torture and Truth". The two will debate the topic "Does America need a new president?".

September 28, 2004
Humanity 2.0: Will Your Grandchildren Be Genetically Modified?
A conversation with Bill McKibben, Author of "Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age" and Dr. Marcy Darnovsky, Associate Director, Center for Genetics and Society. Moderated by Michael Pollan, Professor, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

July 23, 2004
BlogOn 2004 Conference
The Graduate School of Journalism is co-sponsoring the BlogOn 2004 conference on July 23 on the UC Berkeley campus to explore the impact of Weblogs and social networks on the Internet and human interaction.

May 4, 2004
Social Justice & Social Empathy: Where Did They Go? How Can We Regain Them?
What does empathy have to do with inequality? Robert Reich, former U.S. secretary of labor in the Clinton era and a distinguished visiting professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy, will discuss how socio-economic inequality contributes to frayed social bonds and what we can do about it.

April 30, 2004
China's Digital Future
Keynote Speaker: Lawrence Lessig, Stanford University Law School
Please check website link for full conference details.
http://journalism.berkeley.edu/conf/chinadf/

April 30, 2004
Disrupting the News Industry
A panel discussion with Dan Gillmor of the San Jose Mercury News, Neil Chase of CBS MarketWatch, Vin Crosbie of Digital Deliverance LLC and Ken Sands of The Spokane Spokesman-Review on how media companies are coping with the competing demands of ownership concentration and participatory journalism.

April 30, 2004
Revisiting Virtual Communities
A panel discussion with Criag Newmark of craigslist, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga of the Daily Kos Weblog, Mark Pincus of Tribe Networks and Susan Mernit of the Navigating the Info Jungle Weblog on how the Internet is changing social interaction and political activism.

April 29, 2004
Living With The Genie
A panel discussion with Denise Caruso, Ray Kurzweil (by videoconference), Howard Rheingold, Richard Rhodes, and Mark Schapiro. Moderated by Christina Desser. Introduced by Michael Pollan.

April 28, 2004
The Importance of Being Famous
Maureen Orth has made headlines reporting the landscapes of fame and power -- where its citizens strive to stay young, unindicted, and always camera-ready. Orth unveils a juicy, devastating, and often heartbreaking portrait of the Era of Celebrity and its very public lives.

April 27, 2004
Biotech & Nanotech - Remaking Nature in the Image of Technology
Andrew Kimbrell is the executive director of the Center for Food Safety. A public-interest lawyer and writer based in Washington, D.C., he is the author of "The Human Body Shop" and "Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture."

April 22, 2004
Changing World Views of the U.S.: An International Panel Discussion
Featuring Michael Naumann of Germany's Die Zeit Newspaper

March 31, 2004
Risk Analysis or the Precautionary Principle?
Carolyn Raffensperger is a lawyer and environmentalist and the founding executive director of the Science and Environmental Health Network. She has been instrumental in introducing the precautionary principle, which was adopted by the city of San Francisco last year.

March 16, 2004
Media At War Conference
A three-day series of panels, lectures and discussions by 50 journalists and foreign policy experts on the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq begins the evening of March 16 with a panel discussion by foreign reporting and other staff members at the Los Angeles Times.

March 4, 2004
Life Beyond Genes: The Trouble With Genetic Engineering
A talk by Craig Holdrege, Biologist, Director of The Nature Institute, and Author of "Genetics and the Manipulation of Life: The Forgotten Factor of Context"

March 3, 2004
George Soros: The Bubble of American Supremacy
Financier, philanthropist and author, George Soros, will be discussing the interesting facets of the bubble phenomenon as it relates to the United States' notion of self-supremacy in the world. Mr. Soros is also the founder and chairman of the Open Society Institute.

February 19, 2004
Selling Out the First Amendment
John Carroll, editor and executive vice president of The Los Angeles Times, and Michael Krasny, host of KQED-FM's Forum, will meet at Wheeler Auditiorium February 19th at 7:30 to discuss how the state's biggest newspaper operates when the lines between news, politics and entertainment are blurred.

February 18, 2004
The New York Times at War
Gerald Marzorati is the editor of the New York Times Magazine, where he has worked for ten years. He has been a non-fiction editor at the New Yorker, a senior editor at Harper's Magazine, and a features editor at the SoHo News, an alternative paper in Manhattan in the 1970s.

February 4, 2004
The Fog of War
Errol Morris and Robert McNamara together on stage discussing the latest buzz generating documentary "The Fog of War". Moderating the discussion will be Mark Danner, Professor at the Graduate School of Journalism with introductions by Dean Orville Schell and Chancellor Berdahl.

December 10, 2003
Pulse of Scientific Freedom
Arpad Pusztai, John Losey, Tyrone Hayes, and Ignacio Chapela in a public conversation. Introduced by Michael Pollan and moderated by Mark Dowie.

November 24, 2003
Fast Food World
Food has emerged as the flashpoint in the ongoing debate over globalization. All of us face a fateful decision: do we want to move toward a single global marketplace for food? What would doing so mean for food security? For our diets? Our cultures? The environment? Experts debate the issue.

November 24, 2003
Fast Food World
A panel discussion with Wendell Berry, Carlo Petrini, Michael Pollan, Eric Schlosser, Vandana Shiva. Introduced by Alice Waters, moderated by Orville Schell.

November 19, 2003
The Politics of Obesity
Panelists: Marion Nestle, professor of nutrition, food studies and public health, New York University; Joan Dye Gussow, professor emeritus of nutrition education at Columbia University; Kelly Brownell, psychology professor and director of the Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders.

November 4, 2003
Hitchens v. Danner: Has Bush Made Us Safer?
Christopher Hitchens and Mark Danner take off the gloves for another round of debates on the Bush administration.

November 4, 2003
Has Bush Made Us Safer?
Debate: Christopher Hitchens vs. Mark Danner. Introduced by Robert M. Berdahl, moderated by Orville Schell Dean.

September 30, 2003
Helen Thomas - The Bush White House
A conversation with Helen Thomas, Hearst newspaper columnist, United Press International and White House bureau chief for 57 years.

September 26, 2003
Paul Krugman: The War in Iraq and the American Economy
Paul Krugman is a New York Times columnist and Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University. Introduced by Orville Schell Dean, Graduate School of Journalism.

September 9, 2003
Covering Infectious Disease
A conference co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Journalism's Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism Training, the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and the Center for Infectious Disease Preparedness.

May 19, 2003
Multimedia Reporting & Convergence Workshop II
Featuring sessions on weblogging, charging for content, dayparting, putting multimedia into practice, and more.

May 1, 2003
America In the Second Nuclear Age
A conversation with Jonathan Schell, Frances FitzGerald, Michael Nacht, and Mark Danner. Introduced by Orville Schell.

April 10, 2003
Weblogs, Information, and Society
Weblogs are mainstream, and they are changing the way we manage knowledge, work and communicate. Dan Gillmor, Scott Rosenberg, Donna Wentworth and others are on a panel to explore how this change continues to affect academia, journalism, business, and society.

April 3, 2003
Looking at America from Abroad
A conversation with: Federico Rampini, Patrick Jarreau, Annette Levy-Willard, Olivia Schoeller, Godfrey Hodgson. Moderated by Orville Schell, Dean, Graduate School of Journalism.

March 28, 2003
Connecting with the Wired Generation
The J-School's sixth annual new media conference. This session covered how young people are using digital technology, the Internet and the media. See full event listing for more information.

March 24, 2003
Multimedia Reporting & Convergence Workshop I
The J-School is hosting five presentations this month on online publishing topics - journalism weblogs on March 24, the state of wireless technology on March 26 , online publishing trends and charging for online content on March 27, and putting multimedia into practice. See full event listing and more information.