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Chris Peck
Editor for the Spokesman Review and President of the Associated Press Managing Editors Terence Smith
Media Correspondent and Senior Producer for the News Hour with Jim Lehrer
Live Web cast July 26, 2001 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT
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Future News...It's More Than Just the Facts
If you want to know what the media are doing and how they are reporting the
facts, there are few better people to talk to than veteran editor Chris Peck,
and media critic Terence Smith. From opposite ends of the continent -- and
sometimes the world -- they've had their hands on the pulse of domestic and
international news for some 30 years, and their fingers on the keyboard
writing about it for the rest of us.
 | | Chris Peck | Chris Peck is editor of the Spokane, Washington,
Spokesman-Review, the largest newspaper between Seattle and
Minneapolis. He's also president of the Associated Press Managing Editors,
the primary contact between 1,500 daily newspapers and the news gatherers at
the AP.
Peck's a master at pushing his team to excellence. Under his
guidance, The Spokesman-Review has been cited 14 times as the best
daily newspaper of the Inland Northwest, named thrice one of the
best-designed papers in the world and is the recipient of numerous awards
for investigative, civic and business reporting. He's also organized the
National Credibility Roundtables Project, a newspaper-reader discussion
about local news coverage; chaired the ASNE ethics and wire content
committees; and hosted two ASNE minority journalist conferences.
Born in August 1950 to a newspaper family in Wyoming, he started work
as a janitor in the paper's offices at age 11. He went on to write and edit for
The Stanford Daily at Stanford University, and later worked at two
papers in Idaho. He was hired in 1979 as a columnist at The
Spokesman-Review. Peck is an active member of the American Society
of Newspaper Editors, an accordion and piano player and a collector of
Native American art.
 | Terence Smith |
As head of the media unit at The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer since
August 1998, veteran television and print journalist Terence Smith
has focused on media accountability and decision-making, ethics
and the pressures of increasing competition. His reporting quickly won critical
acclaim, and his media criticism earned him the 2000 Bart Richards Award and two awards from the National Press Club.
Before joining The NewsHour, Smith reported on politics, government, and
international affairs for CBS. He began in 1985 as Washington correspondent
for CBS Morning News, and over the next 13 years went on to do
assignments for 48 Hours, the CBS Evening News, and other CBS
News broadcasts. Smith was senior correspondent for CBS News' Sunday
Morning from 1990 to 1998. During his time at CBS, he earned Emmy Awards
for shows on Hurricane Hugo and on people living next door to nuclear power
plants, and won the George Foster Peabody Award for general excellence.
Prior to joining CBS, the 1960 graduate of the University of Notre Dame spent
two decades with The New York Times. From 1981 to 1985, he was editor
of the paper's "Washington Talk" page, which he helped conceive and develop.
He also served as assistant foreign editor, national political correspondent
and chief White House correspondent. Smith was The Times bureau chief
in Israel (1972-76), Saigon (1969-70) and Bangkok (1968-69). He also covered
the six-day Arab-Israeli war and its aftermath in 1967, and the Iranian
hostage crisis in 1981.
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