Journalism Panels

On October 20, 2006, two panels composed of national and local journalists and Duke faculty examined media coverage of the Duke lacrosse case as well as national security issues following the Sept. 11 attacks.

The Duke Lacrosse Story: Why Rape Allegations Against men’s Lacrosse players became a national story on race, class, and crime

Panelists for this discussion

• Bob Ashley ’70, Herald-Sun editor
• James E. Coleman Jr., Duke law professor and chair of Duke’s lacrosse review committee
  
• Seyward Darby ’07, Chronicle editorial page managing editor and 2005-2006 editor-in-chief
  
• John Drescher A.M. ’88, News & Observer managing editor
  
• Jerry Footlick, author of Truth and Consequences: How Colleges and Universities Meet Public Crises and former senior editor, Newsweek
  
• Susannah Meadows ’95, Newsweek senior writer
  
• Jay Bilas ’86, J.D. ’92, ESPN sports analyst and attorney
  
• Frank Stasio, moderator, host for The State of Things on WUNC Radio

Reporting and National Security: Balancing Public Interests After 9/11

Panelists for this discussion

• Rebecca Christie ’95, Dow Jones Newswires defense reporter
  
• Mark Mazzetti ’96, New York Times national security reporter
  
• David Schanzer, visiting associate professor of public policy and director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security
  
• Scott Silliman, Duke law professor and executive director of the Duke Center on Law, Ethics, and National Security
  
• Jeffrey Smith ’76, Washington Post national investigative correspondent and 2005-2006 DeWitt Wallace Center media fellow
  
• Susan Tifft ’73, Eugene C. Patterson Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy Studies at the DeWitt Wallace Center, author and expert on media ethics and investigative journalism dilemmas
  
• John Dancy, moderator, visiting lecturer at the DeWitt Wallace Center and former NBC News correspondent