Rhetoric & Reality series continues with "Media Messages, Missteps and Inside Stories from Newsrooms and Campaigns" Oct. 29
October 11, 2007
Three top journalists representing the NBC television network, a journalism think-tank and the statewide Richmond Times-Dispatch newspaper will speak about race and gender issues and political coverage in "Media Messages, Missteps and Inside Stories from Newsrooms and Campaigns," a panel discussion, Oct. 29, 7 p.m., at the University of Richmond's Jepson Alumni Center.
Tickets are free but required. Call the box office at (804) 289-8980. For group tickets, contact jepson@richmond.edu.
Lisa Green, senior producer of NBC's "Weekend Today," Keith Woods, dean of faculty at The Poynter Institute and Times-Dispatch vice president and executive editor Glenn Proctor will participate. Roberta Oster Sachs, who has created a new course on media and leadership for the Jepson School of Leadership Studies and is a former television news producer, will moderate the program.
Green previously worked as a senior producer of broadcast standards for NBC News and as a contributor to blogs for "Nightly News with Brian Williams," "Dateline NBC" and "Today." She joined the network in 1996.
Proctor, with 30 years newsroom experience, joined the Times-Dispatch in 2005. He previously worked at The Star-Ledger in Newark, N.J., and the Akron Beacon Journal in Akron, Ohio, where he was part of the team that won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for news reporting. Earlier this year, he won the National Association of Black Journalists' Legacy Award.
Woods earned several state and national awards during his 16 years at The Times-Picayune in New Orleans. He joined the Poynter faculty in 1995 to teach diversity and coverage of race relations before leading the institute's reporting, writing and editing program.
The program is the third of this year's jointly sponsored Jepson Leadership Forum-Women Involved in Living and Learning speaker series on Rhetoric & Reality: Race & Gender/Power & Politics.