Media Ownership

Research and Regulation
The State of Newsgathering Today

Saturday May 7, 3:00-5:00 PM,
Lobero Theater, downtown Santa Barbara

Tickets are $10 ($5 for UCSB students) available at the UCSB Ticket Office (www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu/tickets.asp; 805-893-3535) or the Lobero Theater (33 E. Canon Perdido St, Santa Barbara, 93101, 805-963-0761).

A panel moderated by Ann Louise Bardach, and Virginia Postrel, former editor of Reason magazine. Lionel Barber, US Managing Editor, Financial Times; Bill Keller, Executive Editor, New York Times; Jacob Weisberg, Editor, Slate. This panel is both a part of the Center’s Media Ownership Series, and the inaugural event of The Media Project, a Center program directed by Ann Louise Bardach.

See Press Release:
www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu/pr/media.asp

See Slideshow of May 7 Conference.

Ann Louise Bardach is the author of Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana, a finalist for the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism and the PEN USA Award for Best Nonfiction, and named one of Ten Best Books of 2002 by the Los Angeles Times. She is the editor of Cuba: A Traveler’s Literary Companion. She won the PEN USA Award for Journalism in 1994 for her reporting on Mexican politics, and was a finalist in 1993 for her coverage of women in Islamic countries.

Virginia Postrel writes for her Dynamist Blog (www.dynamist.com/weblog), was Editor-at-Large for ReasonOnline (reason.com/opeds/postrel.shtml), and has written columns for Forbes, The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and other magazines and newspapers.

Lionel Barber has been a part of the Financial Times since 1985. From 1986 through 1992, he served as the FT’s Washington correspondent and US editor. Other positions Barber has held include chief European correspondent and Brussels bureau chief (1992-98), London news editor (1998-2000) and the FT’s continental edition editor (2002). Barber serves as US managing editor in New York and holds primary editorial responsibility for the FT’s US edition and FT.com. Barber was voted one of the 50 most influential people in Europe by European Voice magazine in 2001, and as one of the 101 most influential people in Europe by Le Nouvel Observateur in Paris in 1998. Barber is co-author of The Price of Truth: The story of Reuters Millions (1984), The DeLorean Tapes (1985) and Not with Honor: The Story of the Westland Scandal (1986), and a contributor to The Media and the Military (1991). He has appeared regularly on ABC, the BBC, CNN, National Public Radio, PBS and other networks. Barber has also appeared on Danish, Dutch, French, German, Irish, and Swedish television.

Bill Keller became Op-Ed columnist and senior writer for The New York Times Magazine as well as other areas of The New York Times in 2001. Previously, he served as the Times' managing editor from 1997 to 2001, after having been the newspaper's foreign editor from 1995 to 1997. He was the chief of The Times bureau in Johannesburg from 1992 until 1995. Before that, he had been a Times correspondent in Moscow from 1986 to 1991, the last three years as the newspaper's bureau chief. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1989 for his coverage of the Soviet Union. Keller joined The New York Times in 1984 as a domestic correspondent based in the Washington bureau. Before coming to The Times, Keller had been a reporter for The Dallas Times Herald since 1982. From 1980 until 1982, he was a reporter for the Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report in Washington, covering lobbyists and interest groups, and a reporter for The Portland Oregonian from 1970 until 1979.

Jacob Weisberg worked as a writer and editor at The New Republic. From 1989 until 1994. Between 1994 and 1996, he wrote the National Interest column for New York Magazine. In the fall of 1996, he joined Slate as Chief Political Correspondent. He succeeded Michael Kinsley as editor of Slate in 2002. He has also been a Contributing Writer for The New York Times Magazine, a contributing editor of Vanity Fair and a reporter for Newsweek in London and Washington. Weisberg is the author of several books, including In an Uncertain World (2003), which he co-wrote with former Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin. The fourth volume in his Bushisms series was published by Simon & Schuster in 2004. Weisberg is also the author of an e-book, The Road to Chadville, which collects his coverage of the 2000 presidential campaign and In Defense of Government, which was published by Scribner in 1996.

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