2005

Thursday, March 17th

8:30pm

The Consequences of Confidential Sources: Jail?

JUDITH MILLER is an author and Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent at The New York Times who writes about national security issues, with special emphasis on terrorism, the Middle East and weapons of mass destruction.

In 2001 Miller was part of a small team that won the Pulitzer Prize for “explanatory journalism” for a series on Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda. In September, 2002, she won an Emmy for her work on a Nova/New York Times documentary based on articles for her book, “Germs.” She was part of the Times team that won the prestigious DuPont award in 2002 for a series of tv programs on terrorism for Frontline. She appears as an expert on Middle Eastern and national security on such national and public affairs shows as ‘Sixty Minutes,’ Oprah Winfrey, CNN, ABC’s ‘Night Line’ and ‘Good Morning America,’ The Today Show, David Letterman, and The Charlie Rose Show. She lectures on the Middle East, Islam, national security, and terrorism.

LOWELL BERGMAN is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, an investigative reporter with The New York Times and a producer/correspondent for the PBS documentary series “Frontline”. For 21 years from 1978 until 1999 Mr. Bergman was employed as a producer, reporter and then executive in charge of investigative reporting at both ABC and then as the senior investigative producer for CBS News. He spent fourteen of his sixteen years at CBS News as a staff producer for ÌøåÀå_60 MinutesÌøåÀå_, the weekly newsmagazine. While at “60 Minutes” Mr. Bergman produced more than 50 stories, covering organized crime, international arms dealing and drug trafficking and the Iran-Iraq and Persian Gulf wars. Mr. Bergman’s efforts to tell the story of Dr. Jeffrey Wigand, a former vice president of the nation’s third-largest tobacco company, Brown & Williamson, on ÌøåÀå_60 MinutesÌøåÀå_ led to his portrayal by Al Pacino in the motion picture “The Insider”, which was nominated for seven Academy Awards.

Lowell Bergman has received many of journalismÌøåÀå_s top honors in both print and broadcasting including three Peabody Awards, two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Golden Batons, and last year, a Pulitzer Prize and duPont Silver Baton for a documentary and print series on worker safety. Mr. Bergman is an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, where he has taught a seminar dedicated to investigative reporting for over 10 years.

UCTV Special Broadcast of this event:
* Monday, April 4 at 11:00AM
*Wednesday, April 6 at 7:00PM
Wednesday, April 6 at 10:00PM
*Thursday, April 7 at 8:00AM

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Graduate School of Journalism

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