Video: International Broadcasting, Public Media, and the News Deficit (Lee Bolinger)

New America ^ | December 10, 2010 | Staff

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Agenda

Introduction

Tom Glaisyer - Knight Media Policy Fellow - New America Foundation

Opening Conversation

Lee Bollinger - President, Columbia University

Susan Glasser - Editor-in-Chief, Foreign Policy Magazine

Panel 1: International Broadcasting, Public Media, and the News

Gap: Mission and Market Gaps

Panelists

Tony Berman

Chief Strategic Advisor and former Managing Director of Al Jazeera English - Al Jazeera Network

Rena Golden - Former Senior Vice President CNN International and CNN.com

Tamara Gould - Vice President of Distribution ITVS

Alisa Miller - President and CEO Public Radio International

Steve Redisch - Executive Editor, Voice of America

Moderator - Professor Shawn Powers - Georgia State University

Dana Perino- Governor -Broadcasting Board of Governors

Jeffrey Trimble - Executive Director - Broadcasting Board of Governors

Moderator - Jon Sawyer - Executive Director Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting

Panel 2: New Roles for International Broadcasting, and Public Media: Curation and Engagement

Panelists

Heather Chaplin - Assistant Professor, New School Author, SmartBomb

Beth Curley - President and CEO - Nashville Public Television

Ben Scott (Invited) - Advisor for Innovation, State Department

Jason Seiken - Senior Vice President, Product Development and Innovation PBS

Ivan Sigal - Executive Director, Global Voices

Moderator

Professor Ellen Goodman - Rutgers University School of Law, Camden http://www.newamerica.net/events/2010/intl_broadcasting_public_media

All their talks are on videos at the site - didn't get to watch them as it takes forever with my computer.

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Lee Bollinger - Paraphrasing - w/ post wickileaks and many other changes we have a great opportunity right now to change. We need a significant amount of government investment for media and universities. We need government funding for an international broadcasting service like the BBC. It's a pity our great institutions of the press declined so quickly - the consequences are staggering. We only have a 100 international correspondents. Citizen journalists cannot replace the media or universities. NPR/PBS are too small to make a big presence. We want a robust private sector as well but it must be mixed. As a global press we must have our independence and freedom built into a constitution of norms. There are areas in our Constitution that can bring that about... Is it a dangerous idea - too risky? Well, we've had a couple of centuries of major committments by the government supporting universities - half or more are public. In universities there is autonomy and we get tremendous millions of dollars from the system. The BBC have done it - know there are tensions - not a risk one can avoid as every system has its risks. We're out of alignment in a very traumatic way, we need to make it positive. The course we're on - we're out of alignment. We need to invent new institutions for a positive outcome. We have the Federalists papers made for institutions in the past. We now need new Federalists papers for institutions on a global scale....

Watch Video - http://www.newamerica.net/events/2010/intl_broadcasting_public_media

More than 80 Groups Sign Letter to FCC Demanding Real Net Neutrality - http://www.newamerica.net/pressroom/2010/more_than_80_groups_sign_letter_to_fcc_demanding_real_net_neutrality

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