Come to the Oct. 20-22 journalism weekend at Duke.

Friday, October 20

Top Duke journalists and faculty discuss some of the year's biggest stories.

12:30 p.m. Registration and check-in begin.

1:30 p.m. Melcher Family Award for Excellence in Journalism presented to an undergraduate student.

1:45-3:15 p.m. Panel

   The Duke lacrosse story: Why rape allegations against men's lacrosse players became a national story on race, class and crime

    Bob Ashley ’70, Durham Herald-Sun editor

    Jay Bilas ’86, attorney and ESPN sports analyst

    James E. Coleman, Jr., Duke law professor and chair of Duke’s lacrosse-review committee

    Seyward Darby ’07, The Chronicle editorial-page managing editor and 2005-2006 editor-in-chief

    John Drescher A.M. ’88, Raleigh News & Observer managing editor

    Jerry Footlick, author of Truth and Consequences: How Colleges and Universities Meet Public Crises and former Newsweek senior editor

    Susannah Meadows ’95, Newsweek senior writer

    Frank Stasio, moderator, host of “The State of Things’’ on North Carolina Public Radio-WUNC

3:30-5:00 p.m. Panel

   Reporting and national security: balancing interests after 9/11

    Rebecca Christie ’95, Dow Jones Newswires defense reporter

    Mark Mazzetti ’96, The New York Times national security reporter

    David Schanzer, visiting associate professor of public policy and director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security

    Scott Silliman, Duke law professor and executive director of the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security

    Jeffrey Smith ’76, The Washington Post national investigative correspondent and 2005-2006 media fellow at Duke’s DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy

    Susan Tifft ’73, Eugene C. Patterson Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy Studies at DeWitt Wallace, author and expert on media ethics and investigative journalism dilemmas

    John Dancy, moderator, visiting lecturer in public policy at DeWitt Wallace and former NBC News correspondent

5 p.m. Reception for all participants.

Panel program and reception presented by the Chronicle Alumni Network, Duke Student Publishing Company and Duke Magazine.

Saturday, October 21

Alumni talk to the administration about a future Chronicle location.

10 a.m. Presentation

  Larry Moneta, senior vice president for student affairs, talks to alumni about why a renovated Central Campus might be the future home of The Chronicle and other student media.

11:30 a.m. Lunch and discussion

   Alumni and others discuss the state of The Chronicle and Chronicle Alumni Network.

     Ann Pelham, Duke Student Publishing Company chair; Jonathan Angier, Chronicle general manager; Kathleen Sullivan, CAN president; Chronicle staff

3:30 p.m. Chronicle Open House

Sunday, October 22

Participants gather to recap the weekend.

8:30 a.m. Breakfast for all participants. Speaker to be announced.

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