In his first public appearance in the United States since fleeing Nigeria, embattled prosecutor Nuhu Ribadu will sit down with Professor Lowell Bergman for a discussion on international bribery.

A special screening of "Citizen McCaw", the new documentary film about the journalism ethics battle and meltdown at the Santa Barbara News Press.

"OPERATION HOMECOMING: WRITING THE WARTIME EXPERIENCE"
A FILM BY RICHARD E. ROBBINS

OPERATION HOMECOMING is a unique documentary that explores the firsthand accounts of American servicemen and women through their own words.

Ruth Gidley, a reporter from Reuters, will give a presentation on AlertNet for journalists. Discussion to follow. All are welcome.

FRONTLINE/World presents a sneak preview of our Nov. 6 broadcast story, "Extraordinary Rendition" and a chance to meet investigative reporter Stephen Grey, author of the acclaimed book, Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA's Rendition and Torture Program (St. Martin's, 2006).

Kenn Rabin and Sheila Curran Bernard have invited industry leaders to join them for discussions that will inform their book-in-progress, Archival Storytelling, to be published by Focal Press in 2008.

Citizen media pioneers Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, and Oh Yeon Ho, founder of OhMyNews, will join Dan Gillmor and Bill Gannon in conversation.

A forum on the Burma crisis, includes photographs and comments by Visiting Scholar Myint Zaw from Burma; Penny Edwards from the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies; and Siddharth Varadarajan, Visiting Lecturer and an editor at The Hindu in New Delhi.

Screening: "Waiting for Ben Gurion." French Palestinian journalist Norma Marcos visits on Monday, October 22, at Noon in the Library, to screen her award-winning 30 minute documentary, "Waiting for Ben Gurion," concerning her detention in Israel. Discussion to follow. This event is open to the pu

A screening and panel discussion about PBS's award-winning documentary, "Expose: America's Investigative Reports."

An astute listener to music of all genres, Ross challenges popular perceptions of modern music.

Climate change is taking more air time and column inches, and influencing more reporting beats than ever before, compelling a new level of quality in news reporting. Now you can learn how prize-winning journalists cover this complex news.

The Constitution Day Speakers Forum

Lowell Bergman joins The New York Times' Tim Wiener, CIA chief historian David Robarge, former FBI espionage chief Mike Rochford, former CIA veterans Norb Garrett and Milt Bearden and Eric Roth to discuss the myths and reality of intelligence and counterintelligence.

Join us for a reception and screening of the fourth hour of the FRONTLINE "News War" series -- a FRONTLINE/World episode featuring"War of Ideas," about the rise of Arab satellite TV channels, and "Requiem," a tribute to journalists who risk their lives to report the news.

Come for a brown-bag lunch session with Tom Engelhardt and Orville Schell, Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism. Learn from one of the new media's best exemplars of how one outraged person can publish original news and opinion on the web.

The third part of News War puts viewers on the front lines of an epic battle over the future of news. America's major network news divisions and daily newspapers are under siege, facing mounting pressure for profits from corporate owners, and growing challenges from cable television and the Inter

Twelve JSchool print and television reporters traveled last month to Bangalore, Mumbai, Kolkata and Srinagar to look beyond the glowing headlines. Join them on April 20 for a mosaic of stories, slides and video footage that capture the many faces of India's transition.

A Herb Caen San Francisco Chronicle Lecture featuring Dan Rather in conversation with Orville Schell, Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism. Rather was anchor and managing editor for the CBS Evening News for 24 years, and now serves as a correspondent for 60 Minutes and hosts and produces lon

To register for the workshop, please rsvp to merinaworkshop@lists.berkeley.edu


Seating is limited and will be based on those who pre-register.

Presented by M.J. Akbar, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Asian Age

A panel discussion with Robert Silvers, co-editor, New York Review of Books; Michael Massing, writer and author of "Now They Tell Us", and Graduate School of Journalism Professor Mark Danner.

Editors from KQED radio, the Oakland Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner and San Jose Mercury News will be available for dialog and Q&A with the general public, discussing press credibility, and the methods, challenges and responsibilities of journalism.

Maureen Orth has made headlines reporting the landscapes of fame and power -- where its citizens strive to stay young, unindicted, and always camera-ready. Orth unveils a juicy, devastating, and often heartbreaking portrait of the Era of Celebrity and its very public lives.

Hans Blix, former chief weapons inspector in Iraq, talks with CNN Chief Diplomatic Correspondent Christiane Amanpour about the controversy over the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Frank McCulloch, Stephen Engelberg , David Barstow and Mark Schapiro join J-School Teaching Fellow Lowell Bergman in a discussion on investigative reporting. That evening the Center for Investigative Reporting is sponsoring "Witness 2003," its annual celebration of independent journalism.
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As part of the 3rd Annual Logan Symposium on Investigative Reporting April 3-5th, Professor Lowell Bergman's weekly investigative reporting for print and television seminar will include a handful of print and radio reporters dedicated to reporting in the public interest.

Hamid Mir will talk about the precarious state of the Pakistani government, the effectiveness of US foreign policy in the region, and what it's like to be an investigative journalist in one of the most turbulent regions in the world.

Columbia J-School Professor Helen Benedict discusses her new book, "The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq".

Black in America 2 will take you to neighborhoods all across America to meet people - some famous, some not - who are working everyday in real-life situations to find solutions to challenges facing their communities.

Discussion to follow screening with the film's correspondent, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.

This docudrama will focus on four young university students as they follow their dream to build a robot that will win the annual robot competition (ROBOCON) in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia and bring recognition to themselves and their school.