Gary Gilson engages journalists and news consumers in conversations on ethics

Newsworthy is a half-hour television program that explores the values of news decision-makers and of news consumers, usually in one-on-one interviews by Gary Gilson, the News Council’s executive director, whose work in the Twin Cities, New York and Los Angeles has earned five Emmy Awards. Programs are offered free to cable systems around the state, and the full season schedule of 10-13 programs has aired for the past several years on Twin Cities Public Television. The new production season starts in the fall of 2005, and programs will become available in November. Please contact us for tapes of the new season or of the 2004 season. That series included segments about the experience of covering the war in Iraq (one with Star Tribune photojournalist Mike Zerby and the other with then-Pioneer Press reporter Hannah Allam, now Knight-Ridder bureau chief in Baghdad). It also has an interview with a University of Minnesota journalism faculty member, Gary Schwitzer, a former health-care beat reporter in television who criticizes so-called "false hope for cure" stories in TV news. Newsworthy is underwritten by Don and Carole Larson, former publishers of suburban newspapers (Carole once served as News Council president), by TCF Bank, and by the Gannett Foundation and KARE 11-TV. Duplication services for statewide distribution are provided courtesy of GreaTapes.

 

Newsworthy - 2004 Season The Schedule Mike Zerby, Star Tribune photographer, on his experiences in Iraq Hannah Allam, Knight Ridder correspondent in Bagdhad Brian Lambert, Pioneer Press media critic Michael Skoler, MPR news executive Steve Perry, editor, City Pages Michael Skoler, MPR news executive Eric Black, Star Tribune reporter John Rash, chief media buyer, Campbell- Mithun Advertising Kerri Miller, NPR and Aron Kahn, Pioneer Press on covering the stadium bill Gary Schwitzer, professor, U of M School of Journalism on false-hope health care stories in the news PAST YEARS' EPISODES