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Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman talked about his department’s role in ensuring U.S. food safety and reforms of the meat and poultry inspection system. He also talked about food safety tec…

Barbara Cochran, President of the Radio Television News Directors Association, and Marshall Loeb, Editor for the Columbia Journalism Review, took part in this forum that looked at the busine…

The Close Up Foundation hosted a panel about legislative attempts to address family issues. They talked about marriage, divorce law, sex education in schools and parental notification about …

Panelists talked about the role of tribal courts in administering justice and the federal role, if any, in administering justice in Native American communities. They focused on the concept a…

Representatives Davis and Moran discussed the Virginia gubernatorial race with students at T.C. Williams High School. They talked about the Democratic candidate, Don Beyer, and the Republica…

Several volunteerism advocates talked about the volunteerism summit in Philadelphia and the implementation of its goals. The guests talked about how groups and individuals can help their com…

A forum was held as part of a recent foreign policy conference. Three former CIA directors and Professor Robert Cox discussed the changes that have taken place in foreign relations and how f…

The panelists discussed the anniversary of the Watergate burglary in which five men broke into the Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate building. President Nixon resigned just over…

Daniel Stein and Frank Sharry addressed the Close Up Foundation on United States immigration policy. They answered questions from students of T.C. William High school on many different aspec…

Lincoln Caplan, Assistant Managing Editor at US News & World Report, Richard Harwood, Editorial Columnist at the Washington Post, and Author Douglas Gomery, "The Future of News", discussed t…

In front of a student audience, Ellen Ratner, President of the Talk Radio News Service, Tom Resenstiel, Director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, and Bill O’Reilly, of Fox News, …

The Close Up Foundation held a panel discussion on the future of television news and the changes brought by 24 hour cable news channels. The discussion included questions from an audience of…

The panelists discussed print media and how technology has affected it. They said that print media was changing because of competition from television and the Internet. They took questions f…

Joe Urschel, Newseum deputy director; Cara Sutherland, Newseum curator; and others described the Freedom Forum’s newly-opened Newseum, an interactive museum of news content journalism. They …

Carol Browner talked about U.S. environmental policy and answered questions from area high school students who were working on ecology projects. She also noted the celebration of Earth Day t…

The guests discussed the increase in the coverage of religion by various forms of media. They also said that there is a resurgence of spirituality in the U.S. They took questions from the au…

The guests discussed investigative reporting issues, which included tactics and ethics associated with it. Much of the discussion focused on the dispute between Food Lion and ABC News over t…

Guests discussed the current political situation in Russia and prospects there for future democratic development, especially the controversies surrounding President Yeltsin. They also took q…

The panelists talked with high school students about the uses of technology in schools and the uses of technology in a democracy. Access to the Internet was also discussed.

Civil rights attorney Todd Cox and Darlene Kennedy, Legal Affairs Director for the Independent Women’s Forum, talked about the need for affirmative action programs. They examined the influen…