On Saturday, April 2 from 10 a.m.
to noon, the Andrew Silk journalism panel at Haverford College
will convene at Zubrow Commons, Marian E. Koshland Integrated
Natural Sciences Center, on campus. This year's theme, for
Haverford and Bryn Mawr students and teachers and all those
interested in journalism, will be "Political Coverage
in a New Media Environment", and will feature Michael
Wolff, a Vanity Fair Magazine media columnist, best-selling
author, and TV commentator; Steve Goldstein, national correspondent
for the Philadelphia Inquirer in its Washington Bureau;
and Duncan Black, writer of the Eschaton blog at http://atrios.blogspot.com.
The late Andrew Silk's brother Mark will be moderator.
The format is relatively informal.
Each of the panelists will speak for 10 to 15 minutes on the
theme, and then entertain questions from the audience, other
panelists, and the moderator. (One notion this year is that
bloggers are having a heavy impact on media coverage of politics
— recent events at CBS News, for example.)
A luncheon will follow immediately,
for the panelists and those in attendance, at the Bryn Mawr
Room of the Dining Center, and will run until 1:30 p.m., approximately.
Andrew Silk was a 1976 Haverford graduate and talented journalist
who died in 1981. The panel has convened for the past 18 years,
supported by the Silk family, and in the past has addressed
such topics as "Religion in the News"; "9/11";
"Tabloidizing the News: Journalism in the Age of O.J.
and Diana"; and "The Impact of New Technologies
on the Media". Distinguished panelists in the past have
included religion reporter Michael Paulson '86 of the Boston
Globe; Stephen Engelberg. Deputy Foreign Editor of The
New York Times; Juan Williams '76, of NPR and Fox News;
Robert Mong, ' 71, president and editor, The Dallas Morning
News; David Wessel '75, "Capital" columnist
for The Wall Street Journal; Joe Quinlan ' 75, of
Time/Warner; Steven Bronstein ' 75, producer of "Inside
Edition"; and Andrew Heyward, president of CBS News,
among many others.
