
Gen. Colin Powell, speaking to our Fall 2008 Class, and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin and President Obama's pollster, Joel Benenson,
speaking to our Winter/Spring 2009 students.
Seminar Speakers, Winter/Spring 2009
The Politics & Journalism Semester

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"Political Reporting:
Past, Present and Future"
Adam Nagourney, New York Times; Eleanor Clift, Newsweek and The McLaughlin Group |
"Reporting Federal Election Commission Finance Records"
Judy Ingram, FEC Press Officer, and Patricia Klein Young, Asst. Director for Public Disclosure |
"American Political Parties"
Terry Michael, former press secretary,
Democratic Nat. Com.,
and director, Politics & Journalism Semester |
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"Campaign Management"
Brian Lunde, former executive director, Democratic Nat. Com.; mngr., Simon for President 1988 |
"Congressional Party Committees and Campaigns"
David Wasserman and Jennifer Duffy, The Cook Political Report |
"Major Donor Fund-Raising"
Debbie LeHardy, deputy finance director, Republican National Com. |
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"Politics: A Class Discussion"
A discussion of political current events, including the first weeks of the new Obama Administration. |
"Mail and
Internet
Fund-Raising"
Frank O'Brien, president, O'Brien McConnell and Pearson (Democratic direct marketing) |
"Presidential Politics:
Running for the Nomination"
Terry Michael, dir. of commun., 1988 Simon for President campaign |
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"Presidential Politics:
Facing Voters in November"
Terry Michael, director, The Politics & Journalism Semester |
"Running and Covering
Presidential Campaigns"
Lynn Sweet, bureau chief, Chicago Sun-Times, and Kevin Madden, press sec., Romney 2008 |
"Strategic Communication
in Campaigns and Governance"
Terry Michael, director,
The Politics & Journalism Semester |
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"The First Amendment and Media Collusion with Drug War Policy"
Terry Michael, director,
The Politics & Journalism Semester, leading a class discussion |
"Voting in America:
Myths
and Realities"
Curtis Gans, director, Center for
the Study of the American Electorate |
"Political Economics
in the Great Recession"
Brink Lindsey, Cato, author of "The Age of Abundance" |
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"Paid Media in Campaigns"
Ed Brookover, Greener and Hook,
(Republican media consultants) |
Racial and Other Group Identity Politics:
Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Multi-Culturalism"
[a class discussion] |
"Politics: A Class Discussion"
A discussion of political current events, including the first two months of the new Obama Administration and its critics and friends. |
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"Interest Group Politics"
Terry Michael, director,
Politics & Journalism Semester (thanks to
Jonathan Rauch, for his great book) |
"The Politics of Foreign Policy"
Will Marshall, president, Progressive Policy Institute |
"Digital Politics"
Patrick Ruffini, former director of "E-Campaigns," Republican Nat. Com.; blog: PatrickRuffini.com |
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"Presidential Leadership"
Terry Michael, director, The Politics & Journalism Semester |
"Congress: Politics and Policy"
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), Assistant Majority Leader and Majority Whip (with Tim Alberta, Michigan State Univ.) |
"Political Polling and Research"
Joel Benenson, pollster to President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown |
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"Talking Politics: TV and Speech
Performance and Content"
Michael Sheehan, Sheehan Assoc., television, speech, debate coach |
"A
Critique of Political Reporting"
Tom Rosenstiel, Director,
Project for Excellence in Journalism, and former media critic, L.A. Times |
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