Nov. 3: International Broadcasting—Why a Free Press Still Matters
The speaker will be Steven L. Herman, a PDCA member and retired Foreign Service Officer.
The event will take place at noon at GWU's Lindner Family Commons (1957 E Street, NW, Room 602, Washington, D.C. 20052) and will also be available via Zoom. For those who arrive before 11:40 a.m., a light lunch will be provided.
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The First Monday Forum is co-sponsored by PDCA and its partner the GWU Institute for Public Diplomacy & Global Communication.
Steven L Herman is a veteran broadcast journalist and retired Foreign Service Officer. He is now the executive director of the Jordan Center for Journalism Advocacy and Innovation and an assistant professor of practice in the School of Journalism & New Media at the University of Mississippi.
On staff at the Voice of America, he served as a bureau chief and correspondent throughout Asia, reporting from dozens of countries. Following five years at the White House as senior correspondent and bureau chief, he became VOA’s chief national correspondent.
Steve’s book, Behind the White House Curtain: A Senior Journalist’s Story of Covering the President — and Why It Matters, was published by Kent State University Press in 2024.
Steve has been an adjunct assistant professor at Shenandoah University and an adjunct lecturer in journalism at the University of Richmond. He was also a JURIST journalist-in-residence at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and is now on JURIST's board of directors. In 2022 he was selected as a Kiplinger Fellow of Ohio University.
For eight consecutive years Steve served on the board of governors of the American Foreign Service Association. Currently, he is finishing a one-year term on the National Press Club board.
Steve appears frequently as an analyst or interviewee on news and public affairs programs around the world. In recent months he has appeared on Al Jazeera, CBS’ 60 Minutes, C-SPAN, and MSNBC.
The Program is co-sponsored by The Institute for Public Diplomacy & Global Communication. The mission of The Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication (IPDGC), founded in 2001, is to inform thinking about the challenges of communication between countries and at the planetary scale by states and non-state actors alike. By bringing together public diplomacy professionals, affiliated faculty and visiting scholars from overseas, IPDGC is building a rigorous venue for advancing understanding of what it means to speak to the world. Students in the MA program gain value from this, as well as the Institute’s various institutional linkages to central players at the crux of international media and politics.