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Covering the Press: Ethics, Values and Social Issues

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Tom Goldstein

Tom Goldstein is former dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University and UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. He is currently chair of the Mass Communications department at UC Berkeley. He is the author of “The News at Any Cost: How Journalists Compromise Their Ethics to Shape the News” (1985), “A Two-Faced Press” (1986); co-author of “The Lawyer's Guide to Writing Well” (1989); and editor of “Killing the Messenger: 100 Years of Press Criticism” (1989). He has worked as a copy editor for Newsday; a reporter for the Associated Press; editor-in-chief for Juris Doctor Magazine; a reporter for The Wall Street Journal; a reporter and columnist for The New York Times; and media writer for New York Newsday. He also served as press secretary to Mayor Edward I. Koch of New York and a consultant for ABC News' "Nightline." He received his Bachelor's degree from Yale University and Master's and Juris Doctorate degrees from Columbia University.

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Seminar speeches given by Tom Goldstein:
Channeling Public Interest Media:
Reporting on the Public Broadcast System

May 02, 2005
Media in the International Public Sphere, Bay View Room
Four public service media chief executives discuss the impact of technology, economics and politics on the significance and scope of public broadcasting in their respective nations.

Covering the Press: Ethics, Values and Social Issues
April 22, 2002
The New Business of Media. Convergence, cross-media ownership and other forces are chipping away at editorial traditions and tipping the influence in favor of economic concerns, requiring new relationships and business models that can sustain both journalistic standards and profitability.

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