A group of national journalists, fresh off campaign trails and election desks, will gather Saturday, Nov. 15 at Duke University to discuss media coverage of the 2008 presidential campaigns and election.
Duke University's DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy will host the event from 1-3 p.m., which is free and open to the public. The 2008 John Fisher Zeidman Colloquium on Politics and the Press takes place in Fleishman Commons at the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, located on Duke's West Campus.
The panelists are:
-- Garrett Graff, editor of the Washingtonian and founding editor of "Fishbowl D.C." on mediabistro.com. -- Ruth Marcus, a Washington Post editorial writer and columnist specializing in politics, campaign finance, and the federal budget and taxes. -- Mark Shields, a nationally syndicated columnist and political analyst for the "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" on PBS. -- Jeff Zeleny, a political reporter who covered Barack Obama on the campaign trail for The New York Times. -- James T. Hamilton, director of the DeWitt Wallace Center and Charles S. Sydnor Professor of Public Policy, will moderate.
Since 1984, the Zeidman Colloquium has brought prominent journalists and political analysts to Duke, including Ted Koppel, Gwen Ifill, Charlie Rose, David Brooks, David Gergen, and Judy Woodruff, among many others, to discuss the relationship between media and politics.
The colloquium was established by Philip and Nancy Zeidman in memory of their son, John Fisher Zeidman, a Duke student who died in 1982 after contracting viral encephalitis while studying in China. The Zeidman Colloquium celebrates John's passion for examining the interaction of politics and the press.
For directions and parking information, please visit the Sanford Institute website: pubpol.duke.edu.