Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of President Obama's speech on Iraq. How did media look back at Iraq's past seven years? We'll also talk about economic news. Who is asking the right questions? We'll be joined by the former NY Times tax reporter David Cay Johnston, Washington Independent's Annie Lowrey and Guardian's Martin Chulov. Where did you see the best reporting this week? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
David Cay Johnston, a columnist for Tax Notes and former tax reporter with NY Times

Martin Chulov, Guardian's Iraq correspondent. He has reported from the Middle East since 2005.

Annie Lowrey, economic reporter with The Washington Independent

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss the coverage of the violence in Iraq, the House and Senate health care bill and the future of newspapers. We'll be joined by David Baker of the S.F. Chronicle, The Huffington Post's Danielle Ivory, and The Guardian's Martin Chulov in Iraq. Did a story stand out for you because of its reporting?

You can join us live at 11 or drop us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
David Baker, San Francisco Chronicle staff writer
Danielle Ivory, Huffington Post Investigative Fund staff reporter
Martin Chulov, Iraq correspondent for The Guardian and The Observer

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Your Call 080709 Friday Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call it's our Friday media roundtable where we bring in reporters from the mainstream, alternative and international press to discuss the week in American media. This week we'll be joined by Sarah Varney from KQED's Health Dialogues, Michael Massing from the New York Review of Books, and Michelle Fitzhugh-Craig, news editor for the Public Press. Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. Where did you see the best reporting this week and where did it fall short? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Sarah Varney in San Francisco
Health reporter for KQED Radio News and Health Dialogues, a monthly radio program produced by KQED and aired across California. Health Dialogues and Sarah's reporting about the Canadian health care system were recently given high marks by the Columbia Journalism Review.

Michael Massing in NYC
Contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review and a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. He is author of several books, most recently Now They Tell Us: The American Press and Iraq which he co-authored with Orville Schell.

Michelle Fitzhugh-Craig in Tampa
News editor for the Public Press, non-commercial collaborative news service in San Francisco. Fitzhugh-Craig is the former city editor for the Oakland Tribune and won accolades for her investigative reporting for the Chauncey Bailey Project; she also won an Associated Press Managing Editors Award for column writing.

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Your Call 090208 Coming Home: Health Care for Veterans

What do veterans face upon returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the VA, healthcare, PTSD, and suicides. What's really changed since the Walter Reed scandal broke last year? Both presidential candidates say they will make healthcare for veterans a priority, but do their voting records match their rhetoric? Is the posturing on Capitol Hill having an effect on services delivered to veterans on the ground? And how has the treatment of recent veterans affected their political allegiances? It's Your Call at 11 with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Aaron Glantz, independent journalist who reported from Iraq from 2003 to 2005 and has been reporting the stories of American veterans since his return. He is author of two upcoming books on the Iraq War: "The War Comes Home: Washington's Battle Against America's Veterans" (UC Press) and "Winter Soldier Iraq and Afghanistan: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations," (Haymarket) which he is co-authoring with Iraq Veterans Against the War.

Joe Wheeler served in Iraq from March of 2003 until November of 2003 as a surgical assistant. He is a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War.

Tia Christopher, Swords to Plowshares

Joseph A. Violante, National Legislative Director, Disabled American Veterans

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Your Call 032808 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call it's our Friday Media Roundtable where we analyze the news and the way it was delivered. This week violence in Iraq returned to front pages after a months-long hiatus. As American news media awaken to the ongoing war between Sunni and Shia and the deepening split within Shia Iraqis, which reporters told it like it was and who simply sold the surge? We'll also be talking with NPR economics reporter Adam Davidson about explaining the important but dense story of the economic crisis. What was the best reported story you heard this week? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Gareth Porter in Arlington, VA
Investigative historian and journalist. Writes regularly for Inter Press Service and Asia Times.

Saleem Khalaf in Baghdad
Managing Editor of Aswat al Iraq, an English language newspaper written and reported from Iraq.

Adam Davidson in New York
Economics reporter for NPR.

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Your Call 032108 The Iraq War Five Years On- Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we're focusing on the disappearing coverage of Iraq. In 2002, when most mainstream newspaper reporters failed to question the Bush administration's claims about weapons of mass destruction, Knight Ridder proclaimed "Troubling questions over justification for war in Iraq." Knight Ridder reporter Jonathan Landay joins us to discuss the methods he used to get the story right the first time. We'll also be joined by the Boston Globe's Anna Badkhen. Some of the few major newspaper reporters to cover Winter Soldier, she's also reported from Iraq. Why has Iraq disappeared? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Anna Badkhen, correspondent for the Boston Globe

Jonathan S. Landay, National Security and Intelligence correspondent with McClatchy

Zuhair Jezairy, editor in chief of the independent news agency Aswat al-Iraq

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