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Discussion with Three Knight Fellows and A Lokey Professor.
Co-Moderators: Paul Bator & Sharan Daniel, PWR Lecturers.
* Barbara Brotman, columnist & writer, Chicago Tribune; Brotman was born in New York City and was educated at Queens College in New York. After summer internships at the Cincinnati Enquirer and the Chicago Tribune, she joined the Tribune's staff full-time in 1978 and has written for both news and features sections. For five years she wrote a metropolitan news column, and now writes feature stories and a more
personal column for the Woman News section covering topics big and small that touch women's daily lives. Her work has spurred her to find new ways to inform and involve readers; one year after the Sept. 11 attacks, she coordinated a reader's forum on worldwide violence against women. She has won a number of awards in Chicago for her column and her stories from the Society for Professional Journalists, United Press International and others.
* Kay Johnson, correspondent/Vietnam, Time Magazine; globalization's impact on international law; Johnson was born in Monmouth, New Jersey and was educated at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma. She began her journalism career in 1989 as a copy clerk at the Tulsa World and later wrote obituaries and covered education issues. She moved to the West Indies in 1991 and worked for the British Virgin Islands Beacon, the Virgin Islands Daily News and later The Associated Press. After a 1995 hurricane swept
away most of her belongings, she moved to Cambodia to work for the Cambodia Daily, later
writing for Deutsche Presse-Agentur, the South
China Morning Post and Time magazine. In 2001, she moved to Hanoi to report on Vietnam for Time,
securing the first exclusive interview with the
new Communist Party chairman and covering everything from U.S.-based Vietnamese terrorists the new use of sex appeal in government popaganda.
* Eric Weiner, Tokyo correspondent, National
Public Radio; the clash of the modern world with ancient cultures and religions;Weiner was born Baltimore, Maryland and educated at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, New Jersey and the University of Maryland in College Park. He began his career in 1985 as news editor of Flying
magazine, then moved to the New York Times in
1989 to cover the aviation industry. He fell in love with radio and moved to National Public dio asa Washington, D.C. reporter for two years before becoming a foreign correspondent for NPR in South Asia, the Middle East and Tokyo, where he has worked since 1999. He occasionally writes for print publications, including the New Republic and the Los Angeles Times. He was a member of an NPR team that won the Overseas Press Club's Lowell Thomas Award for coverage of Pakistan and Afghanistan after Sept. 11 and was part of a four-member team of NPR reporters that produced a series of investigative reports on the U.S. tobacco industry that won a Peabody Award in 1994.
*David Weir Lorry I. Lokey Visiting Professorin Professional Journalism; Visiting Professor of journalism at Stanford, and a veteran journalist who was formerly Editor in Chief of 7x7 magazine in San Francisco; Vice-President of Network Programming and Product Design for Excite@Home; Senior Vice-President for Editorial Operations and Managing Editor for Salon.com;Vice President of Content and Managing Director of Programming for Wired Digital; Executive Vice-President and Acting Radio News Director at KQED; an investigative reporter for Rolling Stone; a senior editor of California magazine; Managing Editor of Mother Jones; an editorial writer for the San Francisco Examiner; and co-founder and Executive Director of the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR).
Weir has authored or co-authored three books,
including the textbook Raising Hell: How the Center for Investigative Reporting Gets the Story (with Dan Noyes, 1983); and over 150 articles for various publications.