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Journalism: From Murrow to Tomorrow

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Crocker Snow Jr. Date: May 16, 2006 Time: 11:00 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT) View Webchat Transcript

Join veteran journalist Crocker Snow Jr. for a webchat on journalism of today and tomorrow. Snow is director of the Edward R. Murrow Center of Public Diplomacy at The Fletcher School, Tufts University. The center's namesake was regarded as a trailblazer in the field of broadcast journalism. Four decades after Murrow's death, new media and new approaches to news reporting may give us a glimpse of journalism's future. Join Snow to continue USINFO's discussion on press freedom and the future of journalism.

Guest Biography: Crocker Snow Jr. is director of the Edward R. Murrow Center for Public Diplomacy at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. A veteran journalist in the field of foreign affairs, Snow has worked for Newsweek magazine, for WGBH public radio as a correspondent in Germany, and for the Boston Globe as chief foreign correspondent, national and foreign editor and assistant to the publisher.

Snow was the founding editor and president from 1978 to 2001 of The WorldPaper, an international affairs publication that appeared in 27 countries and seven language editions, including Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Korean and Arabic. He was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for reporting on East Asia. Snow is also a contributing author to the State Department publication Edward R. Murrow: Journalism at its Best.

Snow also has taught graduate courses in international communications at Boston University and The Fletcher School.