Conference Schedule
 

8:30-8:45 a.m.  Welcoming Remarks

8:45-9:00 a.m.  “Scene setter on International Broadcasting”

McKinney H. Russell, President, Public Diplomacy Council

9:00-11:00 a.m.   “The State of U.S. Government-funded International Broadcasting”

Panelists:
Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, Chairman, Broadcasting Board of Governors

Jeffrey N. Trimble, Acting President, RFE/RL

Sanford Ungar, President, Goucher College; former Director of VOA

                                      Salama Nematt, Washington Bureau Chief, al Hayatt

Paul Blackburn, former Public Affairs Officer, Beijing and Tokyo

Moderator:  Amb. Karl F. Inderfurth, Elliott School of International Affairs; former Assistant Secretary of State, South Asian Affairs

11:00–11:20 a.m.               Coffee Break

11:20 a.m.-12:45 p.m.  “Whither International Broadcasting?

Panel II   Future Trends and Techniques”

Panelists:

Adam Clayton Powell III, Director, Integrated Media Systems Center, USC Viterbi School of Engineering; Senior Fellow, USC Center on Public Diplomacy

Graham Mytton, former Head, BBC World Service Research

Myrna Whitworth, former Acting Director and Director of Programming, VOA

Mark Helmke, Senior Staff Member, Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Moderator: Robert T. Coonrod, former President and CEO, CPB; former Deputy Director, VOA

12:45 p.m.                        Concluding Comments