Q&A: ROBERT SCHEER, editor-in-chief of Truthdig – Author

Written on December 7th, 2010

 

Aired 12/05/10

ROBERT SCHEER, editor-in-chief of Truthdig, was Vietnam correspondent and an editor of Ramparts magazine from 1964-69. He worked with the Los Angeles Times for nearly 30 years, as a national correspondent from 1976-1993 and as a weekly syndicated columnist until 2005. In 2005 he co-founded Truthdig. Scheer is heard weekly on Left, Right and Center on NPR's KCRW. A clinical professor of communications at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, he is a contributing editor for The Nation as well as a Nation Fellow. Scheer has written nine books, including With Enough Shovels: Reagan, Bush and Nuclear War; The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us about Iraq; The Pornography of Power and his newest, THE GREAT AMERICAN STICKUP.

http://www.truthdig.com/

Q&A: WARREN BENNIS, Former University President & Advisor To 5 Presidents – Author

Written on September 4th, 2010

 

Aired 08/29/10

WARREN BENNIS is perhaps America's leading thinker on leadership, a former university president, an advisor to five presidents, and one of the last of his generation still active in academia (at USC and Harvard). We'll talk about the stories and lessons of Bennis's long and remarkable life and memoir, from WWII to the present.

WARREN BENNIS is founding chairman of the Leadership Institute at the University of Southern California, chairman of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard's Kennedy School, and Distinguished Research Fellow at the Harvard Business School. He has written more than twenty-five books on leadership, change, and creative collaboration including Leaders, recently designated by the Financial Times as one of the top 50 business books of all time, and his . most recent, STILL SURPRISED: A Memoir of a Life in Leadership.

http://www.warrenbennis.com/

Q&A: HENRY JENKINS, Author, CONVERGENCE CULTURE: Where Old and New Media Collide

Written on July 21st, 2009

 

Aired 07/21/09

HENRY JENKINS is the Provost's Professor of Communications, Journalism, and Cinematic Art at the University of Southern California. Until recently, he served as the co-founder of the Comparative Media Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His newest books include Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide and Fans, Bloggers and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture.

www.henryjenkins.org/

Q&A: DAVID BOLLIER, Author – VIRAL SPIRAL

Written on March 19th, 2009

 

Aired 03/17/09

"A world organized around centralized control, strict intellectual property rights, and hierarchies of credentialed experts is under siege. A radically different order of society based on open access, decentralized creativity, collaborative intelligence, and cheap and easy sharing is ascendant." - from VIRAL SPIRAL

A global brigade of techies, lawyers, artists, musicians, scientists. businesspeople, innovators, and geeks of all stripes are dedicated to creating a digital republic committed to freedom and innovation.

From free and open-source software, Creative Commons licenses, Wikipedia, remix music and video mashups, peer production, open science, open education, and open business, the world of digital media has spawned a new "sharing economy" that increasingly competes with entrenched media giants.

I will also ask David to comment on the recent - and upcoming - bailouts, from the perspective of citizens and the commons. In other words, rather than fearing socialism, what are we getting for our "common" contributions to giant corporations -- and what should we be demanding?

DAVID BOLLIER is Senior Fellow at the Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg Center for Communication and co-founder of Public Knowledge, a Washington policy advocacy organization dedicated to protecting the information commons. His latest book is VIRAL SPIRAL: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own.
www.viralspiral.cc
www.bollier.org
www.onthecommons.org