Bill Moyers
Robert Fisk
March 1, 2007
Robert Fisk holds 28 British and foreign press awards, more than any other British journalist, including the six foreign correspondent of the year awards and two journalist of the year awards. He is one of the few journalists to have interviewed Osama Bin Laden.
He is currently the Middle East correspondent for the British newspaper, the Independent. Fisk previously worked at the Times, a national daily newspaper in the United Kingdom, serving as the Middle East correspondent from 1976 to 1987 and as Ireland correspondent from 1972 to 1975.
Bill Moyers
September 13-15, 2005
During his long career in broadcast journalism, Bill Moyers was recognized as one of the unique voices of his generation.
During his thirty-plus years in the media, he has received more than 30 Emmys from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and two prestigious Gold Baton awards from the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, nine Peabody Awards, and three George Polk Awards, including the Career Achievement Award.
His several books include the following best sellers: Listening to America, The Power of Myth, Healing and the Mind, The Language of Life, and, most recently, Moyers on America: A Journalist and His Times.
He is president of the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy.
John Seely Brown
October 18-20, 2004
John Seely Brown is widely recognized for his unique views on the human contexts in which technologies operate and for his healthy skepticism about whether change always represents genuine progress. Brown was the chief scientist at the Xerox Corporation until April 2002 and director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) until June 2000.
Michael Eric Dyson
February 23-25, 2004
Michael Eric Dyson is an award-winning author, cultural critic, social analyst, Chicago Sun-Times columnist, radio commentator, ordained Baptist minister, and acclaimed scholar. He is the author of Race Rules: Navigating the Color Line, as well as books of cultural criticism about Martin Luther King Jr., Malcom X, and rapper Tupac Shakur. He writes a monthly column for Savoy magazine, is a contributing editor at Christian Century, and is a regular contributor to Vibe magazine. He has received awards from the National Association of Black Journalists and the NAACP.
Pat Mitchell
November 11-13, 2002
Pat Mitchell is president and chief executive officer of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). She is the first woman and first producer to serve as CEO of the nation's largest and only noncommercial broadcasting service. A former network correspondent, independent producer, and Time Warner executive, Mitchell now oversees the operations of a $1 billion national enterprise made up of 346 member stations whose mission is to enrich the lives of all Americans and strengthen social capital in the communities they serve.
Ken Burns
October 8-10, 2001
Ken Burns has been making award-winning documentary films for more than 25 years. In 1981 he produced and directed the Academy Award-nominated Brooklyn Bridge. He went on to make several other award-winning films. Burns was the director, producer, co-writer, chief cinematographer, music director, and executive producer of the landmark television series, The Civil War.
He was the director, producer, co-writer, chief cinematographer, music director, and executive producer of the PBS series, Baseball, covering the history of the sport from the 1840s to the present. Through the extensive use of archival photographs and newsreel footage, baseball as a mirror of our larger society was brought to the screen in September 1994. It became the most watched series in PBS history, attracting more than 45 million viewers. Baseball received numerous awards, including an Emmy, the CINE Golden Eagle Award, the Clarion Award, and the Television Critics Award for outstanding achievement in sports and special programming.