PANEL: Media Ownership & Media Bias: A
Crisis in the Newsroom
Lionel Barber (Financial Times), Bill Keller
(The New York Times), Jacob Weisberg (Slate),
Virginia Postrel (Columnist) & Ann Louise Bardach
(The Media Project)
Saturday, May 7/3:00 PM/$10 Public, $5 Student
Lobero Theater, 33 E. Canon Perdido St.
The decision makers of three of the world’s most
important media institutions address their field’s
most pressing and crucial issues. Lionel Barber is the
Financial Times’ US managing editor. Bill
Keller is executive editor of The New York Times.
Jacob Weisberg is editor of Slate magazine.
PEN Award-winning reporter Ann Louise Bardach is the
author of Cuba Confidential and is the Director
of the Media Project. Columnist and blogger Virginia
Postrel is the author of The Substance of Style.
This talk is part of the Center for Film, Television
and New Media’s Media Ownership series. For other
speakers and activities in the series, see:
www.cftnm.ucsb.edu/events.html
Sponsored by The Media Project of the Center for Film,
Television and New Media, the College of Letters &
Science Critical Issues Endowment, the Arthur N. Rupe
Chair in the Social Effects of Mass Communication, Arts
& Lectures and the IHC.
