Schieffer School and CSIS hold second dialogue

Fort Worth, TX

3/26/2008

TCU's Schieffer School of Journalism and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) held the second of a series of monthly dialogues titled "Dialogues in Public Policy and the Media" Wednesday, March 26 at 5 p.m. EST. The dialogue, which is hosted by Bob Schieffer, award-winning broadcast journalist, CBS Face the Nation moderator and 1959 TCU graduate, was broadcast live on the Schieffer School Web site and aired on C-SPAN. The topic for discussion was "Iraq: What should happen next?".  The first dialogue discussed the status of U.S. efforts in Afghanistan.

The dialogues, which will be held in Washington at CSIS headquarters, feature top public policy experts, government officials, leading think-tank scholars, and prominent journalists discussing issues related to national security, foreign policy and global challenges.

Featured speakers at the Wednesday event included Rajiv Chandrasekaran, national editor of The Washington Post, and the author of "Imperial Life in the Emerald City", a best-selling account of the American effort to reconstruct Iraq; Nancy Youssef, chief Pentagon correspondent for the McClatchy newspapers, and has spent the last four years covering Iraq, most recently as the Bagdad bureau chief; and Anthony H. Cordesman, who holds the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at CSIS.  He is also a national security analyst for ABC News.  His analysis was prominently featured during the Gulf War, Desert Fox, and the conflict in Kosovo.

CSIS is a bipartisan, independent, nonprofit organization that provides strategic insights and policy solutions to decision makers in government, international institutions, the private sector and civil society. It has earned the reputation of being one the world's preeminent public policy institutions.

The Schieffer School is emerging as one of the world's top journalism schools dedicated to preparing professionals in both journalism and strategic communications for the new media world while maintaining the traditional standards of basic, straightforward reporting and ethics.

If you would like to attend in Washington, please RSVP to CSIS at (202) 775-3141 or to Schiefferseries@csis.org.

To be added to the e-mail list to receive each program notice, send your e-mail address to Nancy Styles at n.styles@tcu.edu.