Stealing Reality: The Rise of the Right, the Fracture of News and Lessons Learned from Karl Rove
Bill Israel
Wednesday, 19 Apr 2006 at 8:00 pm – 1148 Gerdin Auditorium
Bill Israel, professor of journalism at the University of Massachusetts, specializes in the study of media and power, reporting, and online journalism. He has taught "Politics and the Press" with aides to Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush. Israel worked as press secretary to an Iowa gubernatorial candidate, as assistant to the California Senate majority leader, and as press secretary and legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator in Washington. In radio, television, and print media he has worked as reporter, producer, editor, and anchor. He has worked for the San Francisco Chronicle, the Sacramento Bee, Dallas Morning News, USA Today, CBS Radio, ABC-TV News, and other regional print and broadcast news outlets.Cosponsored By:
- First Amendment Day Planning Committee
- Greenlee School of Journalism
- Lee Enterprises
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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