"The Pundits and the Power: Behind the
Rise of Opinion Journalism"

Thursday, October 18, 4:30pm
976 Memorial Library, 728 State St.

Tobin Harshaw, Senior staff editor of The New York Times Op-Ed Pages, will speak on the origins and evolution of opinion journalism. He will also briefly discusss the background of the separation of news an opinion in newspapers and describe The New York Times' decision to open its editorial pages to outside voices at greater length with the inclusion of an op-ed page in 1971.

He will close with a discussion of the changing media landscape brought forth by the Internet.

Presented in collaboration with Friends of UW-Madison Library.