2003 Spring Quarter Carlos Kelly McClatchy Memorial Symposium

The Language of War and the Ethics of Journalism

In cooperation with Stanford's Ethics in Society Program and the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists

Panelists

James W. Carey, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, dean of the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Geoffrey Nunberg, senior researcher at the Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University

Moderator

Peter Y. Sussman, journalist and author and past president of the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists

JAMES W. CAREY, CBS Professor of International Journalism at the Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, is the editor of Media, Myth and Narratives: Television and the Press (1988) and the author of two collections of essays, Communication as Culture (1989) and James Carey: A Critical Reader (1997). Carey was dean of the College of Communications at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus from 1979 to 1992. From 1976 to 1979 he was George H. Gallup Professor of Journalism at the University of Iowa. He has also held visiting appointments at Pennsylvania State University and University College in Dublin, Ireland. He was a distinguished senior fellow at the Gannett Center for Media Studies at Columbia and distinguished visiting bicentennial professor at the University of Georgia. He has been a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow in Science, Technology and Human Values and an associate member of the Center for Advanced Study at Illinois. He was president of the Association for Education in Journalism.

KATHLEEN HALL JAMIESON, professor of communication and Walter H. Annenberg Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, is the author or co-author of several books, including Everything You Think You Know About Politics...and Why You're Wrong (2000); Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction and Democracy (1992); Beyond the Double Bind: Women and Leadership (1995); Spiral of Cynicism: Press and Public Good (1997); and The Press Effect: Politicians, Journalists, and the Stories That Shape the Political World (2003). She received the Speech Communication Association's Golden Anniversary Book Award for Packaging the Presidency (1984) and the Winans-Wichelns Book Award for Eloquence in an Electronic Age (1988). She received the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching and fellowships and grants from The Pew Charitable Trusts, The Ford Foundation, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and The MacArthur Foundation.

GEOFFREY NUNBERG, a senior researcher at Stanford's Center for the Study of Language and Information, a consulting professor in the Department of Linguistics and this year a fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center, was until 2001 a principal scientist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. His books include The Linguistics of Punctuation (1990); The Future of the Book (1996), which he edited; and The Way We Talk Now (2001), a collection of language commentaries. He won the Linguistic Society of America's Public Interest Award in 2001 for his work on National Public Radio. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Center for Applied Linguistics and the steering committee of the Coalition for Networked Information. He is usage editor and chair of the usage panel of the American Heritage Dictionary. He serves on the scientific committees of the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Sciences de l'Information et des BibliothPques (Lyon) and the Universita degli Studii (San Marino). He has taught at UCLA, the University of Rome and the University of Naples.

PETER Y. SUSSMAN, an author and journalist who spent 29 years as an editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, is the co-author of Committing Journalism: The Prison Writings of Red Hog (1993) and editor of Invisible Punishment (2002), an anthology on the news media and prisons. He is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists' (SPJ) national Ethics Committee and served two terms as Northern California SPJ chapter president. He has won several awards, including SPJ's Wells Key, given annually to the individual who has done the most to further the Society and its ideals; the Bill Farr Freedom of Information Award; the Scripps Howard Foundation's Edward Willis Scripps Award for Service to the First Amendment; the Playboy Foundation's Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award; and the California First Amendment Coalition's Beacon Award. He won his first national journalism honor in 1978 when he was awarded a Professional Journalism Fellowship, now called a Knight Fellowship, at Stanford.