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Public Accountability After the Age of Newspapers

October 1, 2009
Paul Starr writer, 1984 Pulitzer Prize
Martin Baron editor, Boston Globe
Dan Kennedy assistant professor, journalism, Northeastern University
Alasdair Roberts professor, Suffolk University Law School

Paul Starr, professor of communications and public affairs at Princeton University and co-editor of The American Prospect, joins Martin Baron, editor of The Boston Globe, and Dan Kennedy, assistant professor at the Northeastern University School of Journalism and nationally recognized media critic, to discuss the future of journalism and how the rapidly changing media landscape will impact us all. Moderated by Alasdair Roberts, the Jerome L. Rappaport Professor of Law and Public Policy at Suffolk University Law School.

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Image of Freedom's Power: The True Force of Liberalism
Author: Paul Starr
Publisher: Perseus Books Group (2007)
Binding: Hardcover, 256 pages
Image of The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The rise of a sovereign profession and the making of a vast industry
Author: Paul Starr
Publisher: Basic Books (1984)
Binding: Paperback, 528 pages
Image of The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communication
Author: Paul Starr
Publisher: Basic Books (2005)
Binding: Paperback, 496 pages
Image of Paul Starr on Beauty: Conversations with Thirty Celebrated Women
Author: Paul Starr
Publisher: DK Melcher Media (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 224 pages
Image of The Logic of Health Care Reform: Why and How the President's Plan Will Work; Revised and Expanded Edition (Whittle)
Author: Paul Starr
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (1994)
Binding: Paperback, 176 pages
Image of The Collapse of Fortress Bush: The Crisis of Authority in American Government
Author: Alasdair Roberts
Publisher: NYU Press (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 266 pages
Image of Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age
Author: Alasdair Roberts
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 334 pages