Lectures tagged "journalism"

Keeping the Feast: One Couple's Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy
Paula Butturini
March 2, 2010
00:59:57
Journalist Paula Butturini talks about her new memoir Keeping the Feast: One Couple's Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy. Paula and John met in Italy, fell in love, and four years later, married in Rome. But less than a month after the wedding, tragedy struck.
Wil Haygood: A Trilogy of Epic African American Lives
Wil Haygood
February 25, 2010
01:04:00
Journalist and biographer Wil Haygood discusses the fascinating lives of three African Americans--Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Sammy Davis Jr., and Sugar Ray Robinson--with radio host Callie Crossley.
Don Lattin: The Harvard Psychedelic Club
Don Lattin
January 14, 2010
00:49:58
Journalist and religion writer Don Lattin gives an inside look into The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America.
Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough: All Things at Once
Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough: All Things at Once
Mika Brzezinski
January 8, 2010
00:57:30
Mika Brzezinski, journalist and co-host of MSNBC's Morning Joe, talks about her new book All Things at Once, with fellow journalist and former congressman Joe Scarborough.
The Changing Role of News in the US and the World
Julia Wallace
November 17, 2009
00:22:08
Atlanta Journal-Constitution Editor Julia Wallace discusses trends in the local and global news media businesses today.
Lillian Ross on Ernest Hemingway
Lillian Ross
June 9, 2009
01:03:52
New Yorker writer Lillian Ross reflects on her famous 1950 profile of Ernest Hemingway. In celebration of the 110th anniversary of the Hemingway’s birth, Ross shares what she has learned about writing and writers throughout her career.
Media’s Mixed Messages to Women
Caryl Rivers
March 29, 2009
01:21:05
Caryl Rivers and Rosalind Barnett discuss current research on women and work, which finds that the mass media proliferates messaging that is in extreme conflict with the reality of women's lives.
Women in Investigative Journalism
Sarah Posner
March 29, 2009
01:19:30
Sarah Posner, Sabrina Hersi-Issa, Adele Stan, and Silja Talvi put an abrupt end to the common image of the investigative journalist as gruff and male, describing how gender can hinder the female investigative journalist, but also play to her advantage.