The Robert M. Batscha University Seminar Series

Monday, November 13, 2006
8:00 to 9:30 p.m. Eastern
5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Pacific

The 2006–2007 Robert M. Batscha University Seminar Series is generously funded by
Dick Wolf.

Additional support provided by the Park Foundation, Inc.

Satellite transmission is provided by GlobeCast.
Satellite time is provided by PanAmSat Corporation.

In the age of instant access to the news, is there still life left in the network's nightly newscasts? Rachel Smolkin, managing editor of the University of Maryland's American Journalism Review, talks to scholars, network news executives, journalists, and the anchors themselves to find out.

"Hold That Obit" by Rachel Smolkin