On Wednesday, December 3, IMS 390B will play host to Jane Hall of Fox News and American University (that's her on the far right, having her microphone being cut off by Bill O'Reilly).Here's her official bio:
Jane Hall is an associate professor in the School of Communicaiton at American University in Washington, D.C. She specializes in writing about media and politics and media ethics. Before joining American University in 1998, she was a long-time journalist writing about the media for publications in New York, including nine years as the media reporter for the Los Angeles Times in New York. She has been a regular contributor on media and politics to the Harvard International Journal of Press and Politics and Columbia Journalism Review. She regularly moderates the American Forum, panels on important issues of special interest to young people regarding media, politics and public policy, from young people and the news to her most recent Forum, on media and Islam. The American Forums are conducted on campus at American University and broadcast on WAMU, the NPR station in Washington, D.C. Hall also is a longtime commentator on television about media issues; she is a weekly analyst on "Fox News Watch," the long-running media-analysis program on Fox News Channel.She also has appeared on “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,” “Charlie Rose,” CNN newscasts and other programs as an expert on media and politics. In 2005, she co-authored a study of issues of censorship and self-censorship among journalists in Iraq that was praised as an “important new study” by Columbia Journalism Review.
Since coming to American University, Hall has pursued her interest in young people and politics and young people and the media. In Fall 2007 Hall began a year-long collaboration with her students and WashingtonPost.com around issues of special interest to young people in the presidential campaign. Her students created a national network and online survey of issues of special interest to young people in the campaign—and the results of two different surveys were published in a series of stories in November 2007 and March 2008 on WashingtonPost.com. This project was one of the most-viewed on the Web site and was featured in an hour-long program on C-SPAN TV.
Hall was a finalist for the 1996 Pulitzer prize for her media coverage for the Los Angeles Times; she also won the Los Angeles Times Editor’s Award and the Los
Angeles Press Club Award. She is a graduate of Columbia University Graduate School of journalism and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. A native of Texas, she attended Mills College in Oakland, California, and received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin.
For class, please read and watch the pieces below and create a response to the following articles. Also, include three questions you would like to ask Hall.
Post your responses by 5PM, Tuesday, December 2.
The Fire Next Time: Fighting the Next War (PDF), Harvard Journal of Press and Politics, Summer 2004.
Gore Media Coverage: Playing Hardball, Columbia Journalism Review, September/October 2000
Fox News' Hall on comments like Matthews' about Clinton: "Every woman I know" said "'I've experienced that kind of sexism'", Media Matters, January 11, 2008.
Read/Watch "Fox News Watch," November 8, 2008
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