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Events from 2006-2007 Season
NY Roundtable Breakfasts sponsored by: Booz Allen Hamilton
NY Boardroom Luncheons and LA Roundtable Breakfasts sponsored by: Deloitte
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The Innovators Series salutes those whose contributions have left an indelible mark on our world and helped redefine the media industry. MySpace has become the "watercooler" for a generation. In less than three years, MySpace chief executive Chris DeWolfe and his partner Tom Anderson have created a platform connecting more than 150 million people and expanded the very basic concept of friendship in a way that was not even imaginable before. By integrating web profiles, blogs, classified listings, entertainment content, photo galleries and user forums, MySpace has created a community where users can do everything from plan their weekends to connect up with friends to discover new music. As a communications tool, a MySpace page has become as ubiquitous as the cell phone. As a business proposition, it may revolutionize the way advertisers target consumers.
Funding for this event provided by Accenture
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Technology has been an extremely powerful tool for the press, giving it the ability to publish or broadcast instantly around the globe at a minimal cost. Print reporters can file to the web in real time from the front lines of the battlefield while television reporters with satellite phones can do the same. But U.S. media companies with Internet sites that make them effectively "global" are operating in a world with few of the First Amendment guarantees and twentieth-century Supreme Court decisions that reporters have relied on. Technology has also made censorship easier. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, twenty-eight countries are engaged in some form of Internet monitoring. The number and extent of press freedom issues raised by new technology is only going to grow in the years ahead. In June, the Media Council will convene a panel of government leaders, technology and media executives, and journalists to discuss the technological revolution's effect on press freedom.
Funding for this event provided by the McCormick Tribune Foundation
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CBS's resident multi-tasker, Sean McManus heads up the network's News and Sports Divisions, only the second person to hold both titles simultaneously (Roone Arledge held both at ABC in the late 1970s and '80s). As president of CBS News, McManus has undertaken a restructuring and retooling of the Division, including naming Katie Couric as the new anchor and managing editor of the CBS EVENING NEWS. On the sports side, McManus led the CBS Corporation's efforts in acquiring broadcast rights to the National Football League in 1998 and later re-negotiated the contract to retain the rights for CBS until 2011. During McManus' more than nine years as president of the Division, CBS Sports has become the year-round leader in network sports television.
Funding for the Roundtable Breakfast Series in New York provided by Booz | Allen | Hamilton
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Steve Capus assumed the role as president of NBC News in November 2005. He is the top news executive and is responsible for all aspects of NBC News, as well as MSNBC and NBC News Channel. Capus is also the arbiter of issues involving ethics, style, standards, safety, and other matters that affect the NBC News's journalistic bearing. Capus reports to Jeff Zucker, president and chief executive officer of NBC Universal.
Funding for the Roundtable Breakfast Series in New York provided by Booz | Allen | Hamilton
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As traditional media seek to broaden their reach by offering programs via the Internet, video-on-demand, iPods, and cell phones, the need for greater accuracy in measuring ratings has never been more crucial. New methodologies and approaches to ratings measurement will no doubt reshape the industry and shed new light on media consumption. There will also likely be some areas of contention within the industry as these changes are implemented. With almost $100 billion expected to be spent on TV and radio advertising this year, there is a lot at stake in the ratings game. This panel will bring together senior executives from the advertising, programming, and audience measurement industries to explore the challenges of audience measurement in the next century.
Funding for this event provided by Bank of America
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Blair Westlake is Microsoft Corp.'s Hollywood connection. In his role, Westlake oversees global media and entertainment partnerships and drives Microsoft's digital media strategy and content delivery initiatives. He also shapes intellectual property policy and digital rights management for the software giant. A veteran consultant whose clients have included Comcast Corp. and General Electric Co., Westlake also served as chairman of Universal Television & Networks Group.
Funding for this event provided by Booz | Allen | Hamilton
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As president of integrated media, Comstock is responsible for NBC Universal’s digital business. From creating new platforms for NBC content to integrating iVillage into NBC Universal, Comstock plays a key role in the company’s content and distribution strategy. She also oversees marketing, promotion, and research for NBC Universal. Comstock rejoined NBC in 2005 after seven years at parent company General Electric Co., where she was a company officer in charge of marketing.
Funding for the Roundtable Breakfast Series in New York provided by Booz | Allen | Hamilton
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Since taking the helm in 2001, Parsons has organized a management dream team, strengthened the company’s balance sheet, simplified its corporate structure, and carried out a disciplined approach to realigning the company’s portfolio of assets to improve returns, all in a mission to lead the company on a solid path toward achieving sustainable growth. In 2005, Parsons was named the top CEO in the entertainment industry by Institutional Investor magazine.
Funding for the Roundtable Breakfast Series in New York provided by Booz | Allen | Hamilton
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Since September 11, media have found themselves increasingly at odds with the U.S. government over coverage of both the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as the ongoing cold war on terrorism. This panel focused on how coverage of conflict in these areas has evolved over the past five years. In particular, it explored the tensions that have arisen between government and media as practices that were once clear have become muddied.
Geneva Overholser, the Curtis B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting at the Missouri School of Journalism, a former editorial board member of the New York Times, ombudsman of the Washington Post, and a former editor of the Des Moines Register served as moderator of this discussion.
Funding for this event provided by the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation
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Michael Roth does not shy away from challenges. Two years ago, he became chief executive of Interpublic with no advertising experience and while the company was in the midst of sorting out accounting irregularities in the wake of an SEC inquiry. But an outsider with Wall Street smarts is apparently just what Interpublic needed. A former CEO of The MONY Group Inc., a financial services firm, Roth is engineering a turn-around at Interpublic and has the agency in recovery mode and moving forward with a particular focus on China and India.
Funding for the Boardroom Luncheon Series in New York provided by Deloitte
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As vice president, Global Online Sales & Operations, Sandberg is responsible for one of Google's most important growth areas. She also oversees sales and operations for Google's consumer products and for Google Book Search. Sandberg is also on the Google Foundation board and directs the Google Grants program. A summa cum laude graduate of Harvard, where she also received an MBA, Sandberg was previously chief of staff for the United States Treasury Department and has held posts at McKinsey & Co. and the World Bank.
Funding for the Roundtable Breakfast Series in New York provided by Booz | Allen | Hamilton
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One of News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch's most-trusted executives, David Hill has held just about every key position in the media conglomerate's television empire over his career. In his current post, Hill continues to serve as chairman of Fox Sports, a unit that he founded in 1993 and built from the ground up, landing the NFL, Major League Baseball, and NASCAR, which firmly established Fox as a legitimate broadcast network. He subsequently went on to oversee entertainment programming for Fox for two years and led a turnaround there. A native of Australia, Hill began his career at seventeen as a copy reporter for the Sydney Daily Telegraph.
Funding for the Roundtable Breakfast Series in Los Angeles provided by Deloitte
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As president of Comcast Interactive Media, Banse is responsible for developing and growing Internet business for the nation's largest cable operator as it looks to make further inroads in broadband and interactive media. Prior to taking on her current role, she oversaw content development for Comcast and played a key role in the development and launch of G4, TV One, and PBS Kids Sprout, as well as the acquisitions of the majority stake in E! Entertainment, The Golf Channel, and OLN.
Funding for the Boardroom Luncheon Series in New York provided by Deloitte
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The business model for traditional media was built on the concept of mass reach. But in an era of fragmentation, how can newspapers and television acquire new readers and viewers? This Media Council panel explored how traditional media are dealing with the myriad challenges it faces and what strategies are being developed to compete in the 21st century.
Funding for this event provided by Bank of America
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One of the most well respected advertising executives in the industry, Jon Nesvig has overseen sales for Fox Broadcasting for almost twenty years. He joined Fox in 1989, just two years after it launched and has been instrumental in the network's rise to legitimacy from its humble beginnings. Prior to joining Fox, he spent fifteen years with NBC, holding numerous sales posts during the hey-day of NBC's prime-time dominance.
Funding for the Boardroom Luncheon Series in New York provided by Deloitte
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With oversight over all of Walt Disney Co.'s global television entertainment and news operations, Anne Sweeney is one of the most powerful executives in the industry today. Sweeney has been involved in the development of some of the most successful networks, including Nickelodeon and FX. Described by Fortune as one of the "50 Most Powerful Women in Business," she is also on the cutting edge of new media, spearheading ABC's efforts to offer its content online.
Funding for the Roundtable Breakfast Series in New York provided by Booz | Allen | Hamilton
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A newsman since the age of fifteen, Associated Press President and Chief Executive Tom Curley is leading the venerable wire service into the digital age. Since his arrival in 2003, he has focused on building AP's brand abroad and adapting to a rapidly changing technological environment. Prior to joining AP, Curley was president and publisher of USA Today and senior vice president of Gannett Co. Under his watch, USA Today's circulation grew to more than 2.3 million copies a day.
Funding for the Boardroom Luncheon Series in New York provided by Deloitte
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Creator of The Wall Street Journal's Personal Technology column, Mossberg is one of the most influential columnists covering the digital world. His accessible everyman approach to reviewing and evaluating the latest gadgetry has earned him a huge following among consumers trying to navigate new technologies as well as the respect of manufacturers and marketers.
Funding for the Boardroom Luncheon Series in New York provided by Deloitte
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In early January, the Media Council held the latest of its signature Dialogue Series events: Follow the Money-Business Journalism in the post Sarbanes-Oxley World. Moderated by Wall Street Journal Assistant Managing Editor Alan Murray, this Dialogue brought together journalists, regulators, academics, and members of the business community to debate the state of financial journalism in this era of corporate reform.
Funding provided by Bank of America
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Bach has blazed a trail in this industry by marking himself as an innovator who has never been short on ideas. As a former holder of one of the industry's snazziest titles—Chief Xbox Officer—Bach is now responsible for the entirety of Microsoft's entertainment and devices group, which includes the youth-market Xbox 360 and iPod-competing Zune. In his presentation, Bach defines his vision for digital entertainment and talks specifically about what that means for Microsoft.
Funding for the Roundtable Breakfast Series in New York provided by Booz | Allen | Hamilton
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Since the events of September 11, journalists and media managers have sought to provide breaking news on political Islam as well as to paint comprehensive portraits of the global Muslim community. For broadcast journalists, issues of time, availability, and aesthetics complicate in-depth reports, furthering a reliance on familiar narratives and “the usual suspects.”
Last December, the Media Council in Los Angeles hosted a seminar on Islam, organized and sponsored by USC Annenberg School for Communication. They brought together broadcast producers, reporters, Islamic experts, community activists, and scholars to discuss American Islam—Muslim faith, culture, and its reflection in the media. The seminar, Islam for Broadcast Media Managers & Journalists, resulted in a candid discussion of current issues.
Funding for this program provided by Gazala, Masood, and Riyad Shauk; Amina Adady; Salim and Yasmin Adaya; and Ruksana Mohammed
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As president and chief executive officer of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Lyne is responsible for all aspects of the public media and merchandising company, which includes publishing, broadcasting, and Internet business segments. Lyne is the classic Renaissance artist, with a background that includes journalism, film production, and running ABC Entertainment. In this interview with MTR CEO Pat Mitchell, Lyne talks about recent challenges to the brand and her priorities for continuing to build it.
Funding for the Roundtable Breakfast Series in New York provided by Booz | Allen | Hamilton
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China's media industry has exploded in the last two decades. On October 24, the Media Council hosted an unprecedented gathering of Chinese and U.S. journalists and government officials. Representatives from the People's Daily, China's Ministry of Publicity, and Xinhua News Agency, as well as CNN, NBC News, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg took part in a wide-ranging discussion of the differences and similarities in the Chinese and American media environments.
Funding provided by McKinsey & Co., the World Economic Forum, and The Asia Society
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This Innovators Series salutes those whose contributions have left an indelible mark on our world and helped redefine the media industry. The Media Council's inaugural event honored media moguls Ted Turner, Sumner Redstone, and Mark Cuban, as interviewed by Michael Eisner for broadcast on CNBC. The second installment of this three-part series will take place at the Paley Center's Los Angeles location this spring and will celebrate a visionary filmmaker.
Funding for this event provided by Accenture
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The media world is in the midst of a breathtaking transformation and this panel addressed one of the biggest challenges facing the industry—blending new media with traditional media. Senior executives from NBC Universal, Walt Disney Co., Time Warner Inc., and Yahoo! were among the panelists who gathered to discuss and debate the perils and prizes in the new media mating dance.
Funding for this event provided by desilva+phillips [media investment bankers]
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