A conversation with First Amendment expert Mickey Osterreicher, general counsel for the National Press Photographers Association, on challenges facing White House press pool photographers and the general state of relations between the Trump Whi

Freedom of Speech: The World View

Dec 2nd, 2016 21m 41s

A conversation with Danish author and journalist Flemming Rose, who says the increasing practice of self-censorship due to terrorism threats is a grave danger to free speech and free press around the globe. In 2005, Rose was editor of Jyllands-

The Law, the Media and Tax Returns

Oct 14th, 2016 28m 16s

A conversation with First Amendment expert and author Ronald K.L. Collins, who joins host Gene Policinski to talk about the legal issues raised by The New York Times’s publication of several pages of Donald Trump’s tax returns. Collins will exp

Asking Big Questions

Sep 12th, 2016 22m 45s

A conversation about how to have better conversations. Host Gene Policinski talks with Josh Feigelson, the founder of the organization Ask Big Questions, which trains college students, faculty and staff on how to engage young adults in thoughtf

Protecting journalists – taking it to the United Nations

Sep 5th, 2016 24m 36s

A conversation about a new effort by Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontières) and a coalition of journalism groups and news organizations to ask the United Nations for a Special Representative on journalists’ safety. Host Gene Poli

Election 2016: Sparking a ‘Murrow Moment’?

Jul 27th, 2016 20m 16s

A conversation about objective journalism and press-candidate confrontations in this year’s presidential election, with Prof. David Mindich, of St. Michael’s College in Vermont, the author of a recent Columbia Journalism Review article, “For jo

The news – that isn’t news – from Cleveland and the RNC

Jul 20th, 2016 14m 36s

Halfway through the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, there have been plenty of protests, inside and outside Quicken Loans Arena. But according to a lawyer who provided First Amendment training in advance to both police and press, co

Setting Out the Rules about Gathering the News – From Overhead

Mar 17th, 2016 22m 33s

A discussion with Mickey Osterreicher, general counsel for the National Press Photographers Association, on matters of newsgathering, privacy, and an update on how the FAA and news operations are working together to map out the new rules for th

#FREEJASON – Iran continues to imprison Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian

Dec 4th, 2015 15m 10s

Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian has been held in an Iranian prison for more than 500 days on sham charges. Jason’s older brother, Ali Rezaian, speaks with the Newseum Institute’s Gene Policinski about international standards of human rig

Reporting at risk of their lives – every day

Nov 24th, 2015 36m 20s

Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS) is a Syrian citizen journalist group, one of the few independent news sources reporting from inside the Islamic State (ISIS). Newseum Institute COO Gene Policinski spoke with Abdalaziz Alhamza, one of

For media, are Paris victims more ‘newsworthy’ than Beirut dead?

Nov 20th, 2015 21m 45s

Rem Rieder, USA Today media writer and former editor of American Journalism Review, talks with the Newseum Institute’s Gene Policinski about lingering criticism that U.S. and European news media gave saturation news coverage to the Nov. 13 ISIS

Targeting Corruption in Angola

Sep 26th, 2015 54m 50s

The Newseum Institute’s Gene Policinski talks with Angolan investigative journalist and human rights activist Rafael Marques, recognized with several international awards for his courageous reporting on conflict diamonds and government corrupti

Hard to see – but right to publish?

Sep 7th, 2015 31m 44s

In little more than a week, there was the on-camera “live” killing Aug. 26 of two journalists, Alison Parker and Adam Ward; graphic video taken by Ward and by the apparent shooter; and on Sept. 4, the heart-wrenching photos of three-year old Sy

What’s in a name? The future – perhaps – for journalism education

Aug 21st, 2015 29m 22s

From Northwestern University’s venerable Medill School of Journalism to the up-and-coming Middle Tennessee State University mass communications program, a name change is more than cosmetic. It’s recognition that the flow of information – from n

Idaho’s “Ag-Gag” Law Runs Afoul of Judge

Aug 7th, 2015 23m 45s

Journalism and freedom of information lawyer Kevin Goldberg discusses a federal judge’s decision to toss out Idaho’s so-called “Ag-Gag” law – touted by advocates as a way to protect state agriculture business from “eco-terrorists” but criticize

Looks like a drone, flies like a drone – but it’s journalism

Jun 17th, 2015 19m 35s

Mickey Osterreicher, general counsel for the National Press Photographers Association, talks with host Gene Policinski of the Newseum Institute on the use of these remotely controlled flying devices by news organizations, one day after the firs

A Conversation with Kathy Gannon

Jun 8th, 2015 36m 48s

A conversation with Kathy Gannon, veteran Associated Press correspondent who was shot and seriously wounded in Afghanistan in 2014 in an attack by an Afghan policeman in which her AP colleague, photographer Anja Niedringhaus, was killed. On Jun

Reporting from Southeast Asia – Haney Howell, for CBS News

May 21st, 2015 42m 2s

As the Newseum opens “Reporting Vietnam,” a new exhibit marking the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War, veteran broadcaster Haney Howell – the last CBS News bureau chief in Saigon before the city fell in 1975 – speaks with the Newseum Institut

Lessons from Ferguson: Truth as a ‘tool to improve our democracy’

Apr 28th, 2015 29m 27s

Tony Messenger, editorial page editor at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and a 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist for editorial writing, talks about what his newspaper and the rest of the news media can take away from news coverage last August of the dea

The importance of “context” in reporting on violence

Apr 28th, 2015 18m 15s

Carl Sessions Stepp, a professor at the University of Maryland’s Phillip Merrill College of Journalism, discusses media coverage of the violence and peaceful demonstrations for social justice in Baltimore, and shares his thoughts on how journal

Reporting on violence – in Baltimore and elsewhere

Apr 28th, 2015 22m 59s

Is it “journalism” or just “marketing” for journalists to give instant reports from the scene of riots and chaos? Amidst rioting in Baltimore following the funeral of Freddie Gray, an insightful discussion with Professor John Watson from Americ

Holding Police Accountable – On Camera

Apr 10th, 2015 34m 19s

Mickey Osterreicher, general counsel for the National Press Photographers Association, discusses the legal challenges and First Amendment issues that persist around citizen and news media videotaping of police activity. The issue has gained urg

Putin: Power, Persuasion and Propaganda

Apr 2nd, 2015 1h 14m

Gene Policinski, chief operating officer of the Newseum Institute, moderates a panel discussion of experts exploring how Vladimir Putin has shaped his own public image, taken control of the Russian news media and marshaled public support to put

Imprisoned Journalists and the Students Working to Set Them Free

Mar 26th, 2015 56m 3s

Newseum Institute chief operating officer Gene Policinski hosts a panel with three University of Maryland journalism students to discuss Press Uncuffed, their new campaign to free imprisoned journalists in partnership with the Committee to Prot

Fraternity Scandal at the University of Oklahoma

Mar 11th, 2015 17m 4s

Newseum Institute chief operating officer Gene Policinski speaks with Katelyn Griffith, the print editor of the Oklahoma Daily, the University of Oklahoma student news operation. Griffith describes how the paper’s staff has responded to the cha