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January 16, 2008
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Media Roundtable at JCU features Al Jazeera bureau chief
Tuesday
January 22, 2008
 2-3:30 p.m.
Dolan Center for Science and Technology / Donahue Auditorium

Will Stebbins, the Washington bureau chief of Al Jazeera, will analyze the current state of world media and the U.S. response to the new information universe at a free, public media roundtable discussion sponsored by the Cleveland Council on World Affairs and John Carroll University. (Stebbins replaces David Marash at the roundtable. Mr. Marash is on assignment with the network.)

Stebbins came to Al Jazeera from Associated Press Television News (APTN) where he was regional editor, overseeing the management of all of APTN's Latin American news. He joined the channel prior to the network’s launch and he oversees coverage of North and South America. He is multi-lingual and brings a wealth of broadcast experience from his previous roles as regional executive for APTN in Miami, senior producer for APTN in Havana and bureau chief for Worldwide Television News in Cairo.

Media Roundtable Discussion
Area professional journalists will join Stebbins in exploring issues of accuracy and access to current news and news organizations. Among the questions: “Is the U.S. locking itself out of the new information universe? Why?”

                  Also at the roundtable will be: 

Mona Debaz, international relations lecturer, JCU
Cynthia Dettelbach, editor, Cleveland Jewish News
David Knox, reporter, Akron Beacon Journal
Fatina Salaheddine, editor and publisher, Al-Sahafa (Cleveland)
Elizabeth Sullivan, columnist and editorial writer, The Plain Dealer
Tim White, anchor, WKYC-TV3, Cleveland

Richard D. Hendrickson, associate professor of Communication and Theatre Arts (JCU), will serve as moderator.

Linda Clark
Director of global programming,
Cleveland Council on World Affairs

John Carroll University, located in Cleveland, Ohio, is a liberal arts university grounded in the Jesuit, Catholic tradition.  The university has some 3,100 plus undergraduates and just over 700 graduate students.  The U.S. News & World Report’s 2007 annual college guide ranks John Carroll University among the top 10 master’s-degree granting universities in the Midwest and first in average graduation rate. Originally founded as St. Ignatius College in 1886, the university was renamed in 1923 to honor America’s first Catholic bishop, John Carroll of Maryland.  John Carroll is one of 28 Jesuit colleges and universities located in the United States.

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