Thursday, April 7, 4:30-5:30pm
Quality Journalism in the Digital Age
Hallock Auditorium
Moderator:
Tom Rosenstiel, OC '78
founder, the Pew Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism
Panelists:
Melanie Eversley, OC '83
reporter, breaking news desk, USA Today
Melissa Fay Greene, OC '75
award-winning investigative journalist and author
Chris Jenkins, OC '93
staff writer, local desk, The Washington Post
Kate Julian, OC '00
editor, Double X, Slate
Aaron Zitner, OC '84
politics editor, The Wall Street Journal
Thursday, April 7, 5:45-6:45pm
Tweets, Tumblrs and Texts: Cultural Criticism Today
Hallock Auditorium
Moderator:
Anne Trubek, OC '88
arts writer and associate professor at Oberlin College
Panelists:
Lisa Abend, OC '86
food critic and Spain correspondent, TIME magazine
Sara Marcus, OC '99
culture critic and author
Emily Nussbaum, OC '88
TV critic, NY magazine
Thursday, April 7, 8:00-9:00pm
Thursday Keynote
West Lecture Hall
Address by:
Peter Baker, OC '83
senior White House correspondent, The New York Times
Thursday, April 7th, 10:00pm
Riot Grrrl Night at the 'Sco with Culture Critic Sara Marcus
More information about this event here.
Friday, April 8, 4:30-5:30pm
Friday Keynote
Hallock Auditorium
Address by:
David Schlesinger, OC '82
chairman, Thomson Reuters China
former editor-in-chief, Reuters
Friday, April 8, 7:00pm
Painting Aural Pictures: The Creative Processes Behind America's Public Radio
Hallock Auditorium
Moderator:
Geoff Pingree
associate professor and director of Cinema Studies at Oberlin College
Emmy-winning documentary writer, photographer and filmmaker
Panelists:
Joe Richman, OC '87
founder and producer, Radio Diaries
Alex Blumberg, OC '89
producer, Planet Money, This American Life
Ben Calhoun, OC '01
producer, This American Life
Chana Joffe-Walt, OC '03
reporter, NPR
Robert Krulwich, OC '69
host, Radiolab
Oberlin College to Host Sixteen Alumni Journalists as Part of Journalism Symposium
Oberlin’s student-run newspaper, The Oberlin Review, is excited to announce its first Oberlin College Journalism Symposium, to take place on April 7th and 8th at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. The symposium will consist of three panels and two keynote addresses featuring 16 different Oberlin alumni journalists. The speakers run the journalistic gamut from reporters and editors of the country’s most respected newspapers to bloggers for internationally read web-only magazines.
The symposium will have two keynote addresses; one on Thursday at 8 p.m. by Peter Baker, OC ’88, The New York Times’ senior White House correspondent, and one on Friday at 4:30 p.m. by David Schlesinger, OC ’82, the Chairman of Thomson-Reuters China and, until February 2011, the Editor-in-Chief of Reuters.
The symposium will also feature three panels. At 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 7th, Tom Rosenstiel, OC ’78, the founder of the Pew Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, will moderate a discussion between Aaron Zitner, OC ’84, politics editor for The Wall Street Journal, Melanie Eversley, OC ’83, of USA Today, Chris L. Jenkins, OC ’93, of The Washington Post, Kate Julian, OC ’00, of Slate and investigative journalist and author Melissa Faye Greene, OC ’75.
At 5:45 p.m. on Thursday, food critic and TIME Magazine correspondent Lisa Abend, OC ’86, author and culture critic Sara Marcus, OC ’99, and NY Magazine TV critic Emily Nussbaum, OC ’88, will discuss culture writing for today’s audiences.
On Friday, April 8th at 7 p.m., Emmy-winning documentary journalist and Oberlin College Director of Cinema Studies Geoff Pingree will moderate a panel between some of NPR’s top hosts and producers: Ben Calhoun, OC ’01, and Alex Blumberg, OC ’89, of “This American Life,” Jad Abumrad, OC ’95, and Robert Krulwich, OC ’69, of “Radiolab” and Chana Joffe-Walt, OC ’03, a reporter for NPR.
“We are thrilled that the Review is bringing such an impressive group of alumni journalists and commentators back to campus for this conference,” said College President Marvin Krislov. “That Oberlin boasts such accomplished alumni speaks to the quality of the liberal arts and sciences education we provide.”
The symposium was organized by three Oberlin College seniors, all editors at The Oberlin Review, with the help of Oberlin Professor Anne Trubek, OC ’88, who is also working as a journalist, and Oberlin Lecturer and Assistant to the President Ferd Protzman, OC ’75, who worked for The New York Times and The Washington Post for years before returning to his alma mater. The Oberlin Review is one of the nation’s oldest student-run newspapers and has a long history of producing accomplished journalists.
For more information contact:
Monica Klein,
Commentary Editor,
The Oberlin Review
commentary@oberlinreview.org
John Light,
Editor-in-Chief,
The Oberlin Review
edsinchief@oberlinreview.org