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.
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