Covering Conflict: Can Interest-based Reporting Help Journalists Get It Right? [Print This Page]
- Time: 9:00-10:15 a.m.
- Date: Thursday, Sept. 11
- Place: 110 Lee Hills Hall
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Conflicts are an integral component of the human condition, and for as long as news media have existed, reporters have covered these struggles, both large and small. As communications technology evolves and expands, however, these stories and the images that accompany them generate a more powerful and sometimes divisive impact worldwide. In this presentation, two journalism-law professors will demonstrate through a simulated conflict and role-play involving the audience how interest-based reporting, a method for covering conflicts developed by the MU Center for the Study of Conflict, Law and the Media, can lead to more constructive, contextualized and informative journalism.
Sponsored by MU Center for the Study of Conflict Law and the Media (a collaboration between the MU Schools of Journalism and Law).
Discussion Leaders:
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Michael J. Grinfeld
Associate Professor, Magazine Journalism
Missouri School of Journalism
Michael J. Grinfeld, an associate professor of journalism, studies media effects on conflict and dispute resolution processes. He is the co-director of MU's Center for the Study of Conflict, Law and the Media, a collaboration between the journalism and law schools. At the law school, Grinfeld is also an adjunct associate professor and a senior fellow at its Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution, where he collaborates on projects relating to media and conflict/dispute resolution issues. Emphasizing topics in law and medicine, Grinfeld's work has appeared in California Lawyer, Psychiatric Times, House Counsel, Global Journalist, Medicine & Behavior, Parenting, Healthcare Business, Geriatric Times and the Forensic Echo. Before joining the magazine journalism faculty in 2001, he was a reporter with the Los Angeles Daily Journal, covering the courts in Orange County, Calif., and writing on a broad range of other law-related topics. Prior to turning to journalism, Grinfeld was a lawyer for 16 years, specializing in civil litigation. He teaches courses in writing, journalism and conflict, law and the courts, and science, health and environmental reporting.
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Richard Reuben
James Lewis Parks Professor of Law
MU School of Law
Richard Reuben is the James Lewis Parks Professor of Law at the MU School of Law. He joined the faculty in 2000 after serving as the William and Flora Hewlett Senior Fellow in Dispute Resolution and an instructor in negotiation at the Harvard Law School. Reuben is the co-author of one of the country's leading alternative dispute resolution (ADR) casebooks, and his articles have appeared in the California Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Harvard Negotiation Law Review, Law & Contemporary Problems (Duke), and the SMU Law Review, among others. His research emphasizes the relationship between dispute resolution and law, as well as democratic governance. He is also one of the nation's leading authorities on confidentiality in ADR processes, and served as a reporter for the Uniform Mediation Act, which has been adopted in several states. A lawyer and journalist, Reuben covered the U.S. Supreme Court and other legal issues for the American Bar Association Journal, the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journals and other publications for more than a decade. He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1991.
About the Center for the Study of Conflict, Law and the Media
The Center for the Study of Conflict, Law and the Media at the University of Missouri is a partnership between the Missouri School of Journalism and School of Law. Through research, teaching initiatives and public service programs, it aims to enhance news media's capacity to inform the rule of law and the constructive resolution of conflict and to reinforce First Amendment media protections and the flow of information that is crucial in a free society.
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About the Futures Forum
Top journalists, advertisers and thought leaders will lead numerous interactive sessions during the Sept. 11 Futures Forum, a day of cutting-edge discussions about the next century of journalism. Ethics, convergence and politics are just a few of the many hot topics that will be explored in this diverse program dedicated to challenging industry thinking and visualizing possibilities for the future. Sessions will be 75 minutes long and held concurrently with others on the schedule. Full schedules will be available during on-site check in during the Sept. 10-12 celebration.
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