Council member Author Alan Heil talked about his new book recently with Barry Zorthian, also on the Council. You can read excerpts and listen to the transcript at
http://www.voanews.com/english/NewsAnalysis/2008-04-29-voa49.cfm
Local Voices/Global Perspectives
Challenges Ahead for U.S. International Media
The Public Diplomacy Council's latest book tells how the next administration might retool U.S. publicly funded international broadcasting in an interactive, online, 21st century communications world.
Contributors to the anthology include:
•James K. Glassman, U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors Chairman
•Robert T. Coonrod, Public Diplomacy Council President and former Corporation for Public Broadcasting CEO
•Kevin Klose, NPR President
•Sanford J. Ungar, Goucher College President and former Voice of America Director
•Mark Helmke, Veteran U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee aide
•Brian Conniff, President of the Middle East Broadcast Networks Inc.
•Gary Knell, President and CEO of Sesame Workshop.
Other eminent analysts in the anthology are Paul Blackburn, Nicholas J. Cull, Kim Andrew Elliott, Morand Fachot, Mark Maybury, Graham Mytton, Salameh Nematt, Adam Clayton Powell III, Walter R. Roberts, William A. Rugh, McKinney Russell, John Trattner, Jeffrey Trimble, Myrna Whitworth and Barry Zorthian. The book is edited by Alan L. Heil Jr., former VOA deputy director.The series of essays and recorded roundtables cover challenges and opportunities in international media facing the new administration and Congress that take office early next year. These include: issues for audience research, the essentials of credible news and programming for a new era, options for structure and resources in 2009 and beyond, new media contributions to America’s dialogue with a rich variety of information consumers overseas, and broad visions for the future of government and private sector media in the years ahead.
To view the Table of Contents, click here.
The nonpartisan Public Diplomacy Council consists of 80 veteran professionals and scholars who advocate strengthening of the nation’s overseas information, cultural and educational programs. This latest in a series of three books published by the Council is once again made possible by a generous grant from the Stuart Family Foundation of Lake Forest, Illinois. The other books are Engaging the Arab & Islamic Worlds through Public Diplomacy (2005) and America’s Dialogue with the World (2006).
This and all publications may be ordered through the Public Diplomacy Council, 805 21st Street NW, Suite 410, Washington, DC 20052, (202) 994-0389 or pdi410@gwu.edu.
