Events

First Drafts of Korea: The U.S. Media and Perceptions of The Last Cold War Frontier
Shorenstein APARC, KSP Conference

Date and Time
July 13, 2007

Availability
By Invitation Only

Panelists
Karl Schoenberger (panelist) - Former foreign correspondent at Los Angeles Times
Doug Struck - Reporter at Washington Post
Brian Myers - Reporter at Atlantic Monthly
Anna Fifield - ReporterReporter at Financial TimesFinancial Times
David Sanger - ReporterReporter at New York TimesNew York Times
Barbara Slavin - Reporter at USA Today
Balbina Hwang - Senior Special Advisor at Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. State Department
David Straub (panelist) - Former Director of Korean Affairs at U.S. State Department
Daniel C. Sneider (panelist) - Associate Director for Research at Shorenstein APARC, Stanford University
Donald Macintyre (panelist) - Pantech Fellow at Shorenstein APARC at Stanford University, Time Magazine
Chris Nelson (panelist) - Editor at The Nelson Report
Caroline Gluck (panelist) - Reporter at BBC Taiwan
Martin Fackler (panelist) - Reporter at New York Times, Tokyo

In conjunction with Dr. Gi-Wook Shin's study of American and South Korean media coverage of the alliance and the peninsula, this conference will convene influential American journalists who covered momentous events and significant trends in the two Koreas. The macro-level, data-driven media study reveals how U.S. coverage of Korean issues has evolved over time as well as how perception gaps have grown up in the U.S.-ROK alliance. But how did American reporters and editors decide what to cover? What drove U.S. interest in Korea? And what were the challenges in covering Korea, both South and North? This conference will showcase the views of journalists on the front line who made key decisions about what to cover and why. These coverage decisions and the stories that followed shaped how Americans conceptualize both Koreas, the U.S.-ROK alliance, and the North Korean nuclear crises.

This one-day workshop will feature four panels: (1) democracy, anti-Americanism and the rise of Korean nationalism, (2) the challenges of covering North Korea, (3) the two North Korean nuclear crises, and (4) public diplomacy and the Korean peninsula.

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