Recently in Fall 1998 Category

Roy L. Moore, Ronald T. Farrar, Erik L. Collins.
Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 1998,
499 pp., $57.50 Hardcover only.

Amid concern about the declining credibility of journalists, the debate over the viability of news councils as a form of non-governmental media accountability has revived. Over the past several years, Silha Center researchers Bill Babcock, Genelle Belmas, and Jennifer Lambe have conducted a systematic evaluation of 25 years of determinations by the Minnesota News Council (MNC). Through analysis of the records of MNC hearings, we have gained insight into the news council model of media accountability.

This is an excerpt from an interview conducted with Allen H. Neuharth by Professor William Babcock, director of the Silha Center, on Aug. 24, 1998.

Allen H. Neuharth, founder of USA TODAY, will provide his unique perspective on today's lapses in media reporting when he delivers the 1998 Silha Lecture. His remarks come from 48 years of media experience as a reporter, columnist, publisher, and CEO of a major media corporation. The lecture will take place at 12:15 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 8, at the Cowles Auditorium on the West Bank of the University of Minnesota's Twin Cities Campus.