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Hodding Carter III Speech: Archived Version available April 12, 2001
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President, CEO and Trustee John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Hodding Carter III, an award-winning journalist and commentator with a career-long "minor in public affairs," was born in New Orleans, La., on April 7, 1935, son of Betty Werlein Carter and Hodding Carter Jr. His father was a newspaper publisher and editor in the South whose editorials on racial and religious tolerance for the family-owned Greenville, Miss. Delta Democrat Times won the Pulitzer Prize in 1946. Hodding Carter III graduated summa cum laude in June 1957 with a bachelor's degree from Princeton University. That same month, he reported to duty as a lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He returned to Greenville in 1959, where he spent nearly 18 years as a reporter, editorial writer, managing editor and associate publisher of the Delta Democrat Times. In 1961, he won the Society of Professional Journalists' national award for editorial writing. His time in Greenville was interrupted in 1965-66 for a year at Harvard University as a Nieman Fellow and for stints with two successful presidential campaigns -- Lyndon Johnson's in 1964 and Jimmy Carter's in 1976. In January 1977, he became spokesman of the Department of State and served as assistant secretary of state for public affairs in the Carter administration, most notably during the Iran hostage crisis. Carter has been a frequent chief correspondent for the PBS documentary series Frontline. He was a regular panelist (1981 to 1994) on This Week With David Brinkley, and he also has served as a host, anchor, panelist and correspondent and reporter for a variety of other public affairs television shows on PBS, ABC, CBS, BBC and CNN. Carter also served as a Washington-based opinion columnist for The Wall Street Journal for 10 years. A syndicated columnist with United Media/NEA in the early 1990s, Carter has been a frequent contributor to The New York Times, The Washington Post and many other newspapers and magazines. Carter was elected president and chief executive officer of Knight Foundation in September 1997. He assumed those responsibilities and joined the Board of Trustees on Feb. 1, 1998. He held the Knight Chair in Journalism at the University of Maryland College of Journalism from 1995 to 1997, focusing on public affairs reporting. Carter has won four national Emmy Awards and the Edward R. Murrow Award for his public affairs television documentaries produced for the Inside Story media criticism series. He is a member of the editorial board of Southern Cultures and a longtime U.S. correspondent of World Paper. He has written two books, The Reagan Years and The South Strikes Back, and contributed to seven others. Carter will speak at 7:30 p.m., April 11, in the Kent Student Center Ballroom. The title of his speech is "Whose News Is It?"
President Maynard Partners Inc.
Nancy Hicks Maynard has spent more than 30 years in the news business. She is the former co-owner and publisher of The Oakland Tribune. She covered domestic policy for The New York Times in New York and Washington, D.C., and education for The New York Post. Maynard served as senior vice president of The Freedom Forum, the media foundation, and chair of its Media Studies Center. In addition, she has been a panelist on Face the Nation, Meet the Press and Washington Week in Review. She is currently president of Maynard Partners Inc., a consulting company that focuses on media economics and its impact on the future. She recently published Mega Media: How Market Forces Are Transforming News. A graduate of Stanford Law School, Maynard serves on the boards of numerous organizations, including Tribune Company; the Public Broadcasting Service; The Robert C. Maynard Institute of Journalism Education; and the Journalism Advisory Committee of the Knight Foundation. She has served as a director of Kaiser Permanente, one of the oldest and largest managed health care plans; the Newspaper Advertising Bureau; Haas Business School at the University of California, Berkeley; the Newspaper Management Center at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management; and Individual Investor's Advisory Committee, New York Stock Exchange. Maynard is a member of the Global Business Network, Women's Forum West and the Commonwealth Club of California. She is a 1999 recipient of a residency at the Rockefeller Foundation's study center in Bellagio, Italy. In 1998, she was awarded the National Association of Black Journalists' Lifetime Achievement Award. Maynard also received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997 from Denver's Five Points Media Center and was awarded the University of Missouri Honor Medal or Distinguished Service in Journalism in 1992. Maynard will present the opening keynote speech at 12:15 p.m., April 11, in the Kent Student Center Ballroom. The title of her speech is "Mega Media: How Markets are Changing News."
Herbert I. Schiller Information and Society Professor Annenberg School for Communication The University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Oscar H. Gandy, Jr. is the Herbert I. Schiller Information and Society Professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication. His areas of expertise include the political economy of communication and information, public policy issues in privacy and new technologies and communication as a vehicle for political and social change. He is the author of Communication and Race: A Structural Perspective. Gandy will speak on "The Irrationality of Rational Choice: Audience Segmentation and the Real Digital Divide" at 12:30 p.m., April 12, in the Kent Student Center Ballroom.
Margaret Garmon at mgarmon@kent.edu |
