2002 Carlos Kelly McClatchy Memorial Symposium

Everything Fit to Print? The Future of News in the 21st Century

Geneva Overholser, Thomas Patterson, Tom Rosenstiel

Overholser holds the Curtis B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting, for the University of Missouri School of Journalism, in its Washington Journalism Center. A frequent commentator on media, she has a regular press column in the Columbia Journalism Review. She wrote a syndicated column for the Washington Post Writers Group from 1998 to 2001. Before that, she was ombudsman for the Washington Post and, from 1988 to 1995, editor of the Des Moines Register. Previously, she served as a member of the editorial board of the New York Times, deputy editorial page editor and editorial writer for the Des Moines Register and reporter for the Colorado Springs Sun.

Patterson is Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press in the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He previously taught for many years at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. His most recent book is "The Vanishing Voter," published this year. The book is based on a study of the decline of citizen participation in U.S. elections. Earlier books include "Out of Order," which received the American Political Science Association's Graber Award for the best book in political communication, and "The Unseeing Eye," which was selected by the American Association for Public Opinion Research as one of the fifty most influential books of the past half century in the field of public opinion.

Rosenstiel is director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, in Washington, D.C., and vice-chairman of the Committee of Concerned Journalists, a consortium of more than 1,000 journalists engaged in reflection about the values of journalism. He previously was media critic for MSNBC, chief congressional correspondent for Newsweek and media critic for the Los Angeles Times. He is the co-author, with Bill Kovach, of "The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect," and "Warp Speed: America in the Age of Mixed Media." His earlier books include "Strange Bedfellows: How Television and the Presidential Candidates Changed American Politics, 1992."