1:00 pm to 1:05 pm - Introduction
Tom Glaisyer
Knight Media Policy Fellow
New America Foundation
1:05 pm to 1:30 pm - Opening Conversation
Lee Bollinger
President, Columbia University
Susan Glasser
Editor-in-Chief, Foreign Policy Magazine
1:35 pm to 2:35 - Panel 1: International Broadcasting, Public Media, and the News Gap: Mission and Market Gaps
Panelists
Tony Berman
Chief Strategic Advisor and former Managing Director of Al Jazeera English
Al Jazeera Network
Rena Golden
Former Senior Vice President
CNN International and CNN.com
Tamara Gould
Vice President of Distribution
ITVS
Alisa Miller
President and CEO
Public Radio International
Steve Redisch
Executive Editor, Voice of America
Moderator
Professor Shawn Powers
Georgia State University
2:40 pm to 3:00 pm - Q&A Session
Dana Perino
Governor
Broadcasting Board of Governors
Jeffrey Trimble
Executive Director
Broadcasting Board of Governors
Moderator
Jon Sawyer
Executive Director
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
3:05 pm to 4:05 pm - Panel 2: New Roles for International Broadcasting, and Public Media: Curation and Engagement
Panelists
Heather Chaplin
Assistant Professor, New School
Author, SmartBomb
Beth Curley
President and CEO
Nashville Public Television
Ben Scott (Invited)
Advisor for Innovation, State Department
Jason Seiken
Senior Vice President, Product Development and Innovation
PBS
Ivan Sigal
Executive Director, Global Voices
Moderator
Professor Ellen Goodman
Rutgers University School of Law, Camden
4:10 pm to 4:15 pm - Wrap-up Remarks
In an increasingly digital media landscape, people across the globe are relating to their news outlets in new ways. The missions of media producers are changing, as technological innovations reshape news networks into communities. The assumption is that U.S. public media institutions and international broadcasters are also transforming themselves to serve the emerging public interests in media. How should these institutions be changing to meet the needs of audiences that expect to engage in news and information, not just passively receive it? And even amid the current explosion of information, it is clear that there are information gaps. Is foreign coverage one of them?
