The New York Times and America’s View of the World. A conversation with Arthur Sulzberger Jr. (publisher) and Howell Raines (executive editor) of the New York Times, and Dean Orville Schell and Professor Mark Danner from the Graduate School of Journalism.

Sulzberger and Raines discuss how decisions are made about The Times’ foreign affairs coverage, how that coverage has been adapted to the post-Sept. 11 world, and how the newspaper influences American attitudes about the country’s role in the world.

Leading the discussion is Orville Schell, dean of UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, and Mark Danner, a professor at the journalism school, a staff writer for The New Yorker and director of the new Goldman Forum on the Press and Foreign Affairs, which sponsored the event.

The event inaugurated the Goldman Forum on the Press and Foreign Affairs, a series of lectures, dialogues and scholarship to foster debate about how the American press covers critical world issues and how it might better meet the needs of an increasingly diverse public. In addition, a series of “Goldman Dialogues” will be held on campus featuring salon-style discussions aimed primarily at the campus community.