CCJ Speeches

Huntly Collins outlines the potential the Web holds for journalism, and implores her audience to think creatively about how to overcome the Web's journalistic shortcomings.

CCJ Founding Chairman Bill Kovach's 2007 Baccalaureate Address to Boston University students invites graduates to view the world around them skeptically - to see it as it REALLY exists and not merely how those in powerful positions would have them see it.

Former CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite says today's journalists face greater challenges than those from his generation because their employers can no longer be trusted to provide the resources necessary to expose truth and weed out corruption.

Los Angeles Times reporter Henry Weinstein discusses the impact of staff cuts at his paper and around the newspaper industry on journalists' abilities to provide readers the coverage they need and deserve.

A look back at Charles Gibson's Paul White Award speech at the annual RTNDA convention, where he reminded local televison journalists, "What you do is important. Truly important. All too often, I fear, that very basic point gets lost."

CCJ Founding Chairman Bill Kovach discusses the role of the journalist in the post September 11th world - a world that requires journalists to renew their commitment to interdependence and transparency with the public.

Excerpts of a speech by Minneapolis Star Tribune Editor and former ASNE President Tim J. McGuire in which he proposes five practical prescriptions to create a future in which news values and profits can co-exist in the same sentence.

CCJ Executive Director Jeffrey Dvorkin on the challenges of newsroom management and the changing culture in journalism.

Former Congressman James Symington on the relationship between "insiders" and the journalists who cover them.