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Continuing Education

  

2008 Workshop Agenda

The Tenth Annual

Let’s Do It Better!
Workshop On Journalism, Race and Ethnicity

The Columbia Graduate School of Journalism

Thursday, May 1 – Saturday, May 3, 2008


Thursday, May 1

8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Registration/Check-in
School of Journalism - Main Floor, Lobby
9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Introductions and Overview
Arlene Morgan
9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Ten Years of Let’s Do It Better!
What Have We Learned? Where Are We Going?
Lecture Hall, 3rd floor

Moderators:
Roundtables:		  
Arlene Morgan and Keith Woods
Topics and Discussion Leaders
  1. Demographics: Bobbi Bowman, ASNE; and Mae Cheng, executive editor, AMNew York Ethnic Press, Odette Lourdes Keeley, New American Media Association and Sree Sreenivasan, Columbia University
  2. Selling Stories: Elizabeth Llorente, The Bergen Record; Steve Magagnini, The Sacramento Bee; and Shankar Vedantam, The Washington Post
  3. Broadcast Voices: Alice Pifer, Columbia; Walt Swanston, NPR; Scotti Williston, CUNY
  4. Education: Victor Merina, USC; Sharon Santus, Bloomsburg University; Mirta Ojito and Ernie Sotomayor, Columbia
11:00 a.m. - 11:10 a.m. Break
11:10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. The Tobenkin Award Presentation
Mike Riley, The Denver Post
“Lawless Lands”
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Working Lunch
  The Art of the Interview
Steve Kroft on Clarence Thomas
“The Justice Nobody Knows’’
CBS News, 60 Minutes
A Conversation with Keith Woods
2:15 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Searching for Equality

Moderator:
  
Alice Pifer

 
  • CNN: “The Noose: An American Nightmare”
    Managing Editor Steve Robinson

  • The Philadelphia Inquirer: “Too Tough: Tactics in Suburban Policing” Team: Melissa Dribben, Mark Fazlollah, Keith Herbert and Dylan Purcell

  • The Los Angeles Times: Judy Pasternak on“Blighted Homeland”
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Awards Reception, Lerner Hall, 5th Floor
5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Awards Dinner
  Lifetime Achievement Winners:
  • Mae Cheng --AMNew York
  • Jeff Fager -- CBS, 60 Minutes
  • Sig Gissler -- Columbia University
  • Earl Graves -- Black Enterprise
  • Ray Suarez -- NewsHour, PBS
  • Walt Swanston -- NPR
  • Special Recognition Citations
  • Newspaper and Broadcast Excellence Awards
7:15 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. FORUM:
The Presidential Election:
What’s Race Got to Do With It?

Moderator:    Ray Suarez
Panelists:      Eric Deggans, The St. Petersburg Times, Jonathan Kaufman, The Wall Street Journal, Odette Lourdes Keeley, New American Media Association, Keith Woods, The Poynter Institute and Shankar Vedantam, The Washington Post

Friday, May 2
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Covering Change

Moderator:		  
Bobbi Bowman
  • The Plain Dealer (Cleveland), Reporter Sam Fulwood III, editor Stuart Warner, managing editor Debra Simmons and reporter Sandy Livingston
    Can We Save Our Neighborhoods?

  • The Sun-Sentinel (Ft. Lauderdale), Greg Lewis and Shirley Schofield The New South Florida

  • The Daily Times (Farmington, NM) A Portfolio of work, featuring reporters Alysa Landry and Sammy Lopez and editor Troy Turner
11:15 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Working Lunch - Breakout Session
(Buffet Lunch. Feedback Reports at 12:30)

Bringing Ideas Home
Discussion leaders: Craig Franklin, Victor Merina,
Sharon Rosenhause, Stuart Warner and Scotti Williston

1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Beat Reporting  

Moderator:		  
Victor Merina
  • David Gonzalez, The New York Times“House Afire”(Religion)

  • CNN: Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen, Producer Jennifer Pifer and Associate Producer Sabriya Rice Suffering in Silence (Mental Health)

  • Bill Rhoden, The New York Times Portfolio of Work (Sports )

  • Paul Finebaum, Mobile Register columnist, the Paul Finebaum Radio Network and Finebaum.com website (Multimedia Sports Reporting)
3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. What’s Next?
Moderator:    Doug Smith,
We will discuss what the proposed Institute on Race and Ethnicity should look like to serve academic, professional and community needs.

Saturday, May 3
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast - Lecture Hall
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.     The Untold Story

Moderator:		  
Scotti Williston
  • Correspondent Leslie Stahl and Producer Shari Finkelstein CBS, 60 Minutes Reconstructing the Family Tree-Roots

  • Correspondent Brett Shipp and Producer Mark Smith, WFAA-TV, Dallas KinderPrison

  • John Yearwood, Carl Juste, and Frances Robles, The Miami Herald A Rising Voice: Afro-Latin Americans
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.     Working Lunch
Lessons Learned about Race: Covering Katrina’s Aftermath
Moderator:   June Cross, Professor of Broadcast Journalism, Columbia
1:30 p.m. Evaluations and Good-Bye