{"id":10460,"date":"2012-11-07T11:15:15","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T16:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/news\/article.php?ArticleID=10460"},"modified":"2012-11-07T11:15:15","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T16:15:15","slug":"10460_leading-journalists-political-analysts-hold-free-post-election-forum-at-montclair-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/2012\/11\/07\/10460_leading-journalists-political-analysts-hold-free-post-election-forum-at-montclair-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading Journalists, Political Analysts Hold Free Post-election Forum at Montclair State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Montclair State University\u2019s School of Communication and Media will bring together four leading, distinguished political analysts and journalists to discuss and debate the development of political journalism in the 21st Century and the impact of the media\u2019s coverage on the 2012 presidential campaign.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Panelists:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Jonathan Alter,&nbsp;<em>Bloomberg<\/em>&nbsp;Political Columnist, Award-winning Author<br \/>Robert George,&nbsp;<em>New York Post<\/em> Editorial Writer<br \/>Professor Brigid Harrison, Department of Political Science and Law, Montclair State University<br \/>\u2028Timothy O\u2019Brien, Executive Editor of <em>The Huffington Post<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Merrill Brown<\/strong>, Director of Montclair State University\u2019s School of Communication and Media, to moderate.<\/p>\n<p>The event is free but reservations are recommended. To<strong><\/strong>&nbsp; RSVP and\/or to reserve a seat e-mail <a href=\"mailto:msupostelection@gmail.com.\">msupostelection@gmail.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEN:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp; Monday, November 12, 2102&nbsp;&nbsp; 7:30pm<br \/><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WHERE:<\/strong>&nbsp; Leshowitz Recital Hall, John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University<\/p>\n<p>On-campus parking in the Red Hawk Deck.&nbsp; For directions, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/about-montclair\/directions\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Watch Live Stream of the Post-election Forum:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>________________________________________________________________ <\/p>\n<p><strong>PANELISTS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <strong>Jonathan Alter<\/strong>&nbsp;is an award-winning author, reporter, columnist and television analyst. Since 2011, he has written a column for <em>Bloomberg View<\/em>, a worldwide commentary site for <em>Bloomberg News<\/em>. Alter spent 28 years at <em>Newsweek<\/em>, where he was a senior editor and columnist and wrote more than 50 cover stories. He has also written for <em>The New York Times<\/em>, <em>The Washington Post<\/em>, <em>The Washington Monthly<\/em>,<em> The Atlantic<\/em>, <em>Vanity Fair<\/em>, <em>The New Republic<\/em> and other publications. Since 1996, Alter has been an analyst and contributing correspondent for \u201cNBC News\u201d and MSNBC. His 2010 book, <em>The Promise: President Obama, Year One<\/em>, went to No. 4 on <em>The New York Times<\/em> Nonfiction Bestseller List and was one of the <em>Times&#8217;<\/em> &quot;Notable Books&quot; of the year. <em>The Defining Moment: FDR&#8217;s Hundred Days<\/em> <em>and the Triumph of Hope<\/em>, published in 2006, was also a bestseller.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Robert A George<\/strong>&nbsp;is an&nbsp;editorial&nbsp;writer for the&nbsp;<em>New York Post<\/em>&nbsp;and a conservative \/libertarian&nbsp;blogger&nbsp;and&nbsp;pundit. He was born in&nbsp;Trinidad&nbsp;and lived in the&nbsp;United Kingdom&nbsp;before moving to the&nbsp;United States. A graduate of&nbsp;St. John&#8217;s College&nbsp;in&nbsp;Annapolis, Maryland, George worked for the&nbsp;Republican National Committee&nbsp;and, following the 1994 midterm elections,&nbsp;Speaker of the House of Representatives&nbsp;Newt Gingrich.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brigid Callahan Harrison<\/strong>&nbsp;is Professor of Political Science and Law at Montclair State University, where she has taught since 1994. In addition to&nbsp;<em>American Democracy Now<\/em>&nbsp;(McGraw-Hill Publishers, first edition, 2009, second edition, December 2010), she is also the author of&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>A More Perfect Union<\/em>&nbsp;(McGraw-Hill Publishers, 2010),&nbsp;<em>Power and Society<\/em>&nbsp;(Cengage, now in its 13th&nbsp;edition) and&nbsp;<em>Women in American Politics<\/em>&nbsp;(Wadsworth, 2003), as well as various peer-refereed journal articles.&nbsp;A frequent commentator on U.S. politics, Harrison often provides political analysis to \u201cFOX News,\u201d local affiliates of ABC, NBC, and CBS, and NPR radio programs. She is a regular commentator on NJTV and writes a weekly column on New Jersey politics in the Sunday editions of&nbsp;<em>The Record<\/em> (of Bergen County). Her editorials have appeared in&nbsp;<em>The New York Times<\/em>, <em>USA Today<\/em>, <em>The Star-Ledger<\/em>,&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>The Press of Atlantic City<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Timothy L. 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The series that emerged from that work, &quot;The Reckoning,&quot; was &nbsp;a winner of a 2009 Loeb Award for Distinguished Business Journalism. &nbsp;O\u2019Brien is currently writing a series of historical thrillers for Random House. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panel discussion and debate to focus on \u201cCampaign Reporting in the 21st Century \u2013 What Can Be Learned from the 2012 Election\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-of-communication-and-media-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}