Carlos Kelly McClatchy Memorial Lectures and Symposia

Carlos Kelly McClatchy Memorial Lectures and Symposia were established in 1964 to bring Stanford University distinguished national and world leaders in the field of journalism. Its purpose is to give students a first hand insight into the responsibilities of journalism in a democratic society and to stimulate critical thinking about the performance of the mass media in the world today.

2008

The Press & The Presidency: Covering Campaign 2008
Dan Balz, Elisabeth Bumiller, Anne Kornblut, Adam Nagourney, Walter Shapiro

2007

Pressing Times: Can Newspapers Survive in the New World of Journalism?
Bill Keller, Gary Pruitt, Marissa Mayer, Harry Chandler, Joel Brinkley

: Carlos Kelly McClatchy, 1891-1933, was born in Sacramento, the son of the editor of the Sacramento Bee, where following graduation from Columbia University, he began his newspaper career. During World War I, he served with distinction with a California infantry regiment in France, earning his captaincy via a field promotion "in recognition of his gallantry" during the battle of the Argonne Forest. Following the Armistice, McClatchy returned to Sacramento to cover political campaigns, write editorials, and serve as the paper's national correspondent in Washington, D.C. In 1922 he founded the Fresno Bee, which he edited until his death. In 1923 he became general manager of the McClatchy Newspapers, and a few years later played a central role in the development of the McClatchy radio system. From 1922 until his death, McClatchy continued to build a reputation as an aggressive independent editor, always willing to challenge entrenched viewpoints. At his death, the Fresno Bee wrote that the West had lost "one of the most brilliant, progressive and dynamic of its newspaper personalities."

2006

Red & Blue America? The Polarization of American Politics
Morris Fiorina, John Harris, Rich Lowry, Gary Jacobson

Anonymous Sources: Leaks, Accountability and the First Amendment
Bob Drogin, Walter Pincus, Kathleen Sullivan

Covering the War in Iraq
Dexter Filkins, Ann Garrels, George Packer, Larry Diamond

2005

Press Performance in the Post-9/11 Era
Lance Bennett, James Fallows, Dana Priest, Philip Taubman

Revealing, Disclosing, and Accounting
Michael Schudson

2004

Democracy and Communication
John D. Peters

Smart Mobs, Mobile Communication, Pervasive Computing, and Collective Action
Howard Rheingold

2003

Online Discussion and Democracy
Vincent Price

The Language of War and the Ethics of Journalism
Peter Sussman, James W. Carey, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Geoffrey Nunberg

2002

The Future of News in the 21st Century
Geneva Overholser, Thomas Patterson, Tom Rosenstiel

Global News Coverage After Sept. 11
Paul Steiger, Maud Beelman, Merrill Brown, Gloria Duffy

2001

Journalism: Democracy's Friend or Foe?
R.W. Apple, Jr.

2000

The 2000 Presidential Election: What Really Happened
Samuel L. Popkin, Daron R. Shaw, Douglas Rivers

Politics, Policy, and Reality
Gwen Ifill

1999

Media Meltdown
Howard Kurtz

1993

The Information Revolution
David Gergen

1992

What Happened on the Way to the Anita Hill Story
Nina Totenberg

1991

Nibbling at the First Amendment
Tom Wicker

1990

"The Image" Revisited
Daniel Boorstin

1989

The American Media After Gorbachev
Robert Scheer

1988

Our Revolutionary First Amendment
Anthony Lewis

1987

The Case for Public Service TV
Jeremy Isaacs

1986

The Television Environment: Cultivating the Wasteland
Timothy E. Wirth

1985

Lost Wisdom of Media Power and the Dangers of Mass Information
Michael J. O'Neill

1984

Preserving Freedom of the Press in a Revolutionary Setting
Sr. Pedro Joaquin Chamorro B.

1983

Absence of Malice
Kurt Luedtke

1982

The Limits of Journalism
Meg Greenfield

1981

The Light on Synanon
David & Cathy Mitchell

1980

Transatlantic Miscommunication
Andrew Knight

1979

How We Use Our Freedom
David Halberstam

1978

Washington: Reading Between the Lines
Elizabeth Drew

1977

An Untitled Lecture
Garry Trudeau

1976

The Future of the Freelancer
Joan Didion

1976

The Challenge Ahead
Walter Cronkite

1974

Intimidation of the Press
Ben Bradlee

1973

An Insider's Outside Look at Government
Bill Moyers

1972

Whose Freedom Next?
Tom Wicker

1971

Ho, Che, Mao, Dick, and Spiro
John Chancellor

1969

Journalism's Tarnished Image - and Its Hope
Norman Isaacs

1968

The Role of Today's Urban Newspaper
Otis Chandler

1968

The Critical Election
James Reston

1967

The Challenge of Our Time
Arnold Toynbee

1966

Fair Trial and Free Press
Raymond L. Spangler

1965

A Tale of Two Cities
Hodding Carter

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