Public Lectures
"Media and the Public Interest in the Digital Age"
Lawrence Grossman
2006 Pauley Symposium: History in the Digital Age
Luncheon Address
Friday, September 22, 2006, 12:30pm
About the PresenterLawrence Grossman is former president of NBC News and PBS. Grossman is currently leading a public interest effort to preserve the national cultural heritage through digitization, as the leading force, with former FCC Chairman Newton Minnow, behind the Digital Opportunity Investment Trust Act. This legislation, currently before the U.S. Congress, would create a "land grant" act to finance the massive public digitization efforts needed to keep America's schools and workplaces technologically viable in the 21st century. Mr. Grossman held the Frank Stanton Chair on the First Amendment at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard in 1989; in 1990 he was named a senior fellow and distinguished scholar at the Gannett Center for Media Studies at Columbia University. He is also the author of The Electronic Republic: Reshaping American Democracy in the Information Age (Viking, 1994). View Portions of the PresentationPortions of this lecture are hosted on the Digital History Project's YouTube Channel and open in a new window. View excerpts of "Creating the China Historical GIS." |
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