In the wake of the tragedies in Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina, journalists and media analysts increasingly question the ethical and moral responsibilities associated with covering conflict. This symposium brings together professionals from the international news media, academia, and the analytic community to discuss how norms and training can contribute to more effective news coverage of conflict situations.
The Web cast is based on a symposium held on April 28, 1999 at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. The other co-sponsors were the School of Journalism, Columbia University, the Center for War, Peace, and the News Media, New York University and the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict.
On the Web cast:
Speakers List
Bill Blakemore, Correspondent, ABC News
Tim Carrington, Manager of Economics Journalism Training, World Bank Institute
Leslie Gelb, President, Council on Foreign Relations
Edward Girardet, Editor, Crosslines Global Report
Tom Gjelten, Diplomatic Correspondent, National Public Radio
Roy Gutman, Diplomatic Correspondent, Newsday
Jane Holl, Executive Director, Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict
Michael Ignatieff, Author, The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience
Bernard Kalb, Host, "Reliable Sources," CNN
Kemal Kurspahic, Editor-in-Chief, The Connection Newspapers, Former Editor-in-Chief, Oslobejenje
Robert Manoff, Director, Center for War, Peace, and Media, New York University
Dapo Olorunyomi, Senior Fellow, Panos Institute
Jay Rosen, Professor, Department of Journalism, New York University
Seymour Topping, Sanpaolo Professor of International Journalism and
Administrator, The Pulitzer Prizes, Columbia School of Journalism
Ed Vulliamy, Correspondent, The Guardian and Bureau Chief and Correspondent, London Observer
Gadi Wolfsfeld, Senior Fellow, U.S. Institute of Peace and Professor, Hebrew University