McClatchy Memorial Lectures and Symposia 1980-2009

2009

• Covering the Economic Crisis 
  Diana Henriques, Alan Murray, Steven Pearlstein, Stephen Shepard

2008

• The Press & The Presidency: Covering Campaign 2008 
  Dan Balz, Elisabeth Bumiller, Anne Kornblut, Adam Nagourney, Walter Shapiro

2007

• Pressing Times: Can Newspapers Survive in the New World of Journalism? 
  Bill Keller, Gary Pruitt, Marissa Mayer, Harry Chandler, Joel Brinkley

2006

• Covering the War in Iraq 
  Dexter Filkins, Ann Garrels, George Packer, Larry Diamond

• Red & Blue America? The Polarization of American Politics 
  Morris Fiorina, John Harris, Rich Lowry, Gary Jacobson

• Anonymous Sources: Leaks, Accountability and the First Amendment 
  Bob Drogin, Walter Pincus, Kathleen Sullivan, Ann Grimes

2005

• Press Performance in the Post-9/11 Era 
  Lance Bennett, James Fallows, Dana Priest, Philip Taubman
• Revealing, Disclosing, and Accounting 
  Michael Schudson

2004

• Smart Mobs, The Virtual Community, & Tools for Thought 
  Howard Rheingold
• Democracy and Communication 
  John D. Peters

2003

• Online Discussion and Democracy 
  Vincent Price
• The Language of War and the Ethics of Journalism 
  Peter Sussman, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Geoffrey Nunberg

2002

• The Future of News in the 21st Century 
  Geneva Overholser, Thomas Patterson, Tom Rosenstiel
• Global News Coverage After Sept. 11 
  Paul Steiger, Maud Beelman, Merrill Brown, Gloria Duffy

2001

• Journalism: Democracy’s Friend or Foe? 
  R.W. Apple, Jr.

2000

• The 2000 Presidential Election: What Really Happened? 
  Samuel L. Popkin, Daron R. Shaw, Douglas Rivers
• Politics, Policy, and Reality 
  Gwen Ifill

1999

• Media Meltdown 
  Howard Kurtz

1998

• How the Media Undermine American Democracy 
  James Fallows

1997

• The Decline of Civility in the U.S. Congress 
  Kathleen Hall Jamieson

1996

• Media Mergers and the Public Interest 
  David Lieberman

1994

• Why All the Media Bashing? Daniel Schorr

1993

• The Information Revolution 
  David Gergen

1992

• What Happened on the Way to the Anita Hill Story Nina Totenberg

1991

• Nibbling at the First Amendment 
  Tom Wicker

1990

• “The Image” Revisited 
  Daniel Boorstin

1989

• The American Media After Gorbachev 
  Robert Scheer

1988

• Our Revolutionary First Amendment 
  Anthony Lewis

1987

• The Case for Public Service TV 
  Jeremy Isaacs

1986

• The Television Environment: Cultivating the Wasteland 
  Timothy E. Wirth

1985

• Lost Wisdom of Media Power and the Dangers of Mass Information 
  Michael J. O’Neill

1984

• Preserving Freedom of the Press in a Revolutionary Setting 
  Sr. Pedro Joaquin Chamorro B.

1983

• Absence of Malice 
  Kurt Luedtke

1982

• The Limits of Journalism 
  Meg Greenfield

1981

• The Light on Synanon 
  David & Cathy Mitchell

1980

• Transatlantic Miscommunication 
  Andrew Knight