IN WAKE OF NY TIMES’ SCANDAL,
PANEL AT BARUCH EXAMINES
“A FREE PRESS AND THE PUBLIC TRUST”

President Ned Regan has announced that at noon, June 23, 2003, at the College’s
Vertical Campus Building, 55 Lexington Avenue, 14th Floor, a panel of distinguished
experts will discuss “A Free Press and the Public Trust”. The event is free and open
to the public (though reservations are required).  Lunch will be served.

The panelists will include:

TOM GOLDSTEIN stepped down last year as dean of the Graduate School of
Journalism at Columbia University. He was previously dean of the Graduate School
of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, and he has been a Lombard
Visiting Professor at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, a Gannett
Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Florida and an adjunct professor
at New York University. Goldstein also has been a reporter for The New York Times,
New York Newsday and for The Wall Street Journal, and served as press secretary
to Mayor Edward I. Koch.

GENEVA OVERHOLSER is Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting
at the University of Missouri School of Journalism.  She ran the editorial page at the
Des Moines Register, before joining the editorial board of The New York Times. She
later served as editor of the Des Moines Register, ombudsman at the Washington
Post and a syndicated columnist with Washington Post Writers Group. Overholser is
a former congressional fellow, Nieman fellow, chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board and
an officer of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. She is currently a trustee of
Stanley Foundation, Knight fellowships at Stanford, National Press Foundation and
the Alfred Friendly Press Fellowship.

DOROTHY RABINOWITZ is The Wall Street Journal's media critic and a member of
its editorial board. She won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in commentary for her articles on
American culture and society. Before joining The Journal, Rabinowitz was a
freelance writer, syndicated columnist and commentator at New York's WWOR-TV.

JAN SCHAFFER is Executive Director of the Pew Center for Civic Journalism.  She
is also the former business editor and a Pulitzer Prize winner for The Philadelphia
Inquirer, where she spent 22 years as an editor and reporter. At the Pew Center, she
runs an incubator for journalism experiments that, over the last 10 years, has created
and refined ways of reporting the news to help engage people better in public life.
As a federal court reporter, she helped write a series of stories that won freedom for
a man wrongly convicted of five murders; the articles won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize
Gold Medal for Public Service. Schaffer has been a journalism fellow at Stanford
University and has taught at Temple University and at the American Press Institute.


For reservations, contact (212) 802-2851