Gwen Ifill on Her Role, Criticism, and Commentary; Alberto Ibargüen on Digital Citizenry
200 representatives from community foundations have gathered in Miami today for the Media Learning Seminar on Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy.
More video and images will be available over the next few days. From the keynote session at noon, some video below from Knight President and CEO Alberto Ibarguen and Gwen Ifill, moderator and managing editor of "Washington Week" and senior correspondent for "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer", just spoke about her new book, The Breakthrough: Politics in the Age of Obama.
Gwen Ifill on how she sees her role:
Gwen Ifill on how she felt about the criticism before the debate:
Alberto Ibargüen on the citizen power of digital access:
February 27th, 2009 at 7:46 am
[...] Posted by Jeff on February 16, 2009 Gwen Ifill was awesome. Down to earth and honest in her words. Here she is with Mrs. Wisconsin Rapids, Helen Jungwirth. Some highlights: Jessie Jackson is cool with his son practicing different politics than his son. She broke her ankle two days before the VP debate and let the critisism about her in progress book vs. ability to objectively moderate the debate roll right off her back. Follow the official conference blog [...]