Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, will present "News Media in the 21st Century: Are Journalists Becoming Irrelevant?" at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Monday, April 26.
The Crosman Memorial Lecture will be held at 5 p.m. in the Norlin Library British Studies Room, with a reception to follow. The event is sponsored by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and is free and open to the public.
Rosenstiel also is the vice chairman of the Committee of Concerned Journalists. He previously worked as a media critic for MSNBC and the Los Angeles Times, as well as the chief congressional correspondent for Newsweek magazine.
He also served as project director for the recent report, "The State of the News Media 2004." His books include "Strange Bedfellows: How Television and the Presidential Candidates Changed American Politics," "The Beat Goes On: President Clinton's First Year with the Media" and "The Elements of Journalism and Warp Speed: America in the Age of Mixed Media," which he co-authored.
The Crosman Memorial Lecture Series honors the memory of Ralph L. Crosman, the first director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He worked as a professor at the school from 1921 to 1937, and served as director until 1948. In 1952, a group of his former students, friends and colleagues created the Crosman Memorial Fund, which enabled the school to establish the lecture series.
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