Guests for Episode #1

The panelists for this episode include:

Fred Bayles
Fred Bayles is an Associate Professor of Journalism and Director of the Statehouse Program at Boston University.  Mr. Bayles has spent the past three decades in daily journalism, including the last 20 years as a national correspondent for The Associated Press and USA TODAY. His work has taken him to 49 states and 10 foreign countries. Assignments have included the 1991 Gulf War, the 1994 Haiti ncursion, the 1993 Branch-Davidian siege in Waco, the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster and the O.J. Simpson investigation and trial. Bayles also covered the 1992 and 1996 presidential campaigns, Hurricanes Andrew, Hugo and Bonnie, the 1994 Northridge Earthquake and various other natural and man-made disasters. In addition, Bayles has led several award-winning investigative projects, including 50-state looks at guardianship of the elderly, the child welfare system and probes into major airline crashes, including TWA 800 and SwissAir 111. He also has an extensive portfolio in sports feature writing, including daily columns from Olympic games in Seoul, Albertville, Barcelona, and Lillehammer.

Dan Kennedy
Dan Kennedy is a visiting assistant professor at the Northeastern University School of Journalism. Previously Kennedy was senior writer and media critic for the Boston Phoenix, New England's largest weekly newspaper, where he worked from 1991 to 2005. In 2001 he won the National Press Club's Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism for his coverage of the media during the 2000 presidential campaign, as well as other national and local media issues. He was the runner-up for the Rowse Award in 1999.  Kennedy is a semi-regular panelist on "Beat the Press," a roundup of media issues broadcast every Friday on Greater Boston with Emily Rooney, the public-affairs program of WGBH-TV (Channels 2 and 44). He is an occasional guest on The Paul Sullivan Show, on WBZ Radio (AM 1030), and appears from time to time on WRKO Radio (AM 680) as a commentator. He has also appeared on Reliable Sources, on CNN; On the Media, on NPR; and The O'Reilly Factor, on the Fox News Channel.  He writes the "Mass.Media" column for CommonWealth Magazine, focusing on innovative ways by which media organizations are nurturing civic engagement. He has also written for The New Republic, Slate, Salon, the Unitarian Universalist World, and other publications.

Janet Kolodzy
Janet Kolodzy is Associate Professor and Acting Chair of the Journalism Department of Emerson College. Ms. Kolodzy has been a reporter, writer, and producer, including positions as Senior Writer/Editor at CNN International, Senior Producer at CNN World Report, and Assistant State Editor at the Cleveland Plain Dealer. She was one of twelve journalists to receive a Michigan Journalism Fellowship in 1990-91 to study at the University of Michigan,where she concentrated on Eastern European history, politics, and culture. Ms. Kolodzy spent the summer of 1999 working for CNN Interactive. Her primary areas of interest are international news and the impact of convergence on broadcast journalism.

Dr. Michael Selig
Dr. Michael Selig is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College. Dr. Selig has taught at the University of Vermont, Rosary College, Northwestern University, and the University of Texas. His research interest was media coverage of the Vietnam War. He has published in Screen, Wide Angle, Jump Cut, and other publications. He is a former editor of the Journal of Film and Video

Danny Schechter
Danny Schechter, journalist, media critic, and director of mediachannel.org and Globalvision, also makes an appearance in this episode on tape.

 

Comments

[Jeff Hansell]

A great idea. Bravo, John!

But I think you should cast a wider net for guests and commenters for this effort.

Check out the Niemann Foundation for Journalism at Harvard: http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/ esp. from group of Fellows.

Also the Niemann Foundation is hosting an annual conference on Narrative Journalism mid-month and includes journalists, media makers, editors, writers, producers, etc. http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/events/conferences/narrative2006/bios_short.html

[WendyBlom]

Fred Bayles, Associate Professor of Journalism at Boston University.
Former national correspondent for The Associated Press and USA Today. Covered the 1991 Gulf War.

[John Donovan]

Here are some names to consider:
Michael Selig, Emerson College prof. and expert on Vietnam War
Danny Schechter, media critic and filmmaker (pre-taped interview)
Nancy Palmer, Harvard Shorenstein Center academic and editor of the 2003 book “Terrorism, War, and the Press
Amy Goodman or Allan Nairn, re: their coverage of East Timor.
Norman Solomon, author and journalist.

[WendyBlom]

Dan Kennedy, Boston Phoenix Journalist, blogger, and professor at Northeastern University