Blogger, professor and former chair of the NYU Department of Journalism, Jay Rosen has long been an advocate of the civic journalism movement. While bloggers hadn’t eliminated the need for journalists, they had changed journalism forever. Rosen discusses the cultural shift toward “open-source” culture and participatory journalism.
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Gary Pierre-Pierre became a journalist to write “the first draft of history.” Mr. Pierre made history himself when he decided to take a tremendous risk by leaving the New York Times in order to launch The Haitian Times in 1999. The venture succeeded despite the tumultuous environment for print media in large part because The Haitian Times was one of the few media outlets to meet the needs of a rapidly transforming community.
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Noted author, journalist, and managing editor of The New York Times, Craig R. Whitney knows that reporters sometimes get it wrong. From simple corrections to ethical gray areas, Mr. Whitney discusses professional standards and how journalists and editorial staffs do everything they can to get it right.

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From the neighborhoods of Queens to the streets of his native Beirut, Mohamad Bazzi has reported in times of war and peace. Recently back in New York from covering the Israel-Hezbollah conflict, the award-winning Bazzi hosted a workshop for those interested in the craft of journalism.
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“Wars are not the same,” says Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Sydney Schanberg, but regardless of the differences in history and geography, the challenges for war correspondents remain unchanged. In this edition of Issues In Journalism, Schanberg and three other journalists, covering wars in Cambodia, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq, discuss the struggle for reporters to uncover the culture and politics behind each conflict, in spite of government interference, language barriers and the life-threatening risks.

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Daniel Okrent became the first public editor of the New York Times in the wake of the Jayson Blair scandal, which forced the resignation of the paper’s executive editor Howell Raines. Mr. Okrent, who recently published a collection of his columns in Public Editor Number One , talks about the position of the public editor, his sometimes contentious tenure and why it took a major scandal to force the NY Times to join the ombudsman movement.

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