Through The James D. Ewing Lecture on Ethics in Journalism, the DeWitt Wallace Center invites widely respected media leaders to Duke University to discuss issues associated with ethics and values in media.
The Ewing lectures are endowed by James D. Ewing, who was publisher emeritus of The Keene Sentinel in New Hampshire and vice chairman and co-founder of the Center for Foreign Journalists in Washington, D.C. Mr. Ewing endowed this annual lecture to provide a forum for defining and exploring those principles that should guide journalists and news executives, and those who interact with them, in their daily work.
In considering whom to invite for the Ewing Lecture on Ethics in Journalism each year, the DeWitt Wallace Center looks to individuals who are widely respected not only for the high-caliber of their work in communications, but for the lasting values that it imparts for future generations.
The U.S. digital divide long existed before the onset of the global pandemic. Prior to the public health crisis, millions of people, which some have argued was nearly 100 million people, were not connected to the internet. With the social distancing requirements of COVID-19 and the transition from analog to digital activities, many more people, including students, farmers, senior citizens, and low-income workers, found themselves among the digitally invisible, attempting to navigate through the burgeoning and now critical digital economy. America failed them by not leaning into the urgency of universal broadband access and failing to recognize the competitiveness of the digital landscape in the global economy. Join Dr. Turner Lee, a senior fellow in Governance Studies and director of the Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institution as she shares the details of her forthcoming book, "Digitally Invisible: How the Internet is Creating the New Underclass" (Brookings Press, 2022). Dr. Turner Lee will unpack what has been historically defined as the “digital divide” in urban, rural, and suburban areas, and offer proposals that policymakers, industry, and civil society organizations can undertake to ensure digital equity and inclusion.
More info on this event, and how to register online.When North Carolina A&T student journalists got fed up with local news outlets linking their campus to unrelated crime scenes, they documented the slights. Editor-in-chief Alexis Wray worked hard to show editors what they did. Some changed but this work is far from done. Despite decades of such efforts, Black journalists are still pushing newsrooms to see and evict racial bias from the news. Moderated by DeWitt Wallace faculty member, Cathy Clabby.
2019
Chuck Todd
NBC News Political Director and host of Meet the Press
Defending Journalism: A conversation with Chuck Todd
2018
Emily Steel
Reporter for The New York Times
The Reckoning: How New York Times reporters exposed sexual harassment at Fox News and Vice and sparked a national conversation
2017
Ted Koppel
Special contributor, CBS News Sunday Morning News
Trust and the Future of Journalism
2017
Hallie Jackson
NC News Chief White House Correspondent
Covering the Trump White House
2017
Gabriel Sherman
National Affairs Editor, New York Magazine
Fox News and the Rise of Alternative Facts
2016
Margaret Sullivan
The New York Times public editor
Ethics at The New York Times: Anonymous sources, quote approval and the rush for scoops
2015
Ann Compton
Former ABC News White House Correspondent
Reporting the American Presidency
2014
Martha Raddatz
ABC News chief global affairs correspondent
Power, Politics and War: Reporting from the Front Lines
2014
2014 Harvard Nieman Fellow; former Investigative Reporter, El Diario de Juárez; recipient of the 2013 Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting.
The James D. Ewing Lecture on Ethics in Journalism
2012
Steve Coll
President, New America Foundation
Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
2012
Lea Thompson
LT Productions, former NBC News/DATELINE chief correspondent and anchor
The James D. Ewing Lecture on Ethics in Journalism
2010
Jane Mayer
Staff writer, The New Yorker Magazine
Journalism and the War on Terror: Reporting from the “Dark Side
2009
Dana Priest
Investigative Reporter, The Washington Post
Adventures in Journalism: from CIA Secret Prisons to Walter Reed
2009
John Carroll
Former editor of the Los Angeles Times
Ten Toxic Notions: Journalism’s Perilous Voyage into the Digital Future
2008
Stephen W. Smith
Former Africa editor and deputy foreign editor of Le Monde
‘Terrible is the Temptation of the Good’: Ethical Paradoxes in Africa
2006
Andrea Mitchell
Chief foreign affairs correspondent, NBC
A Conversation on Media Ethics
2006
David Gergen
Editor-at-large for U.S. News and World Report, director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government
The Press versus Government in a Time of War
2005
Jason DeParle
Senior writer, The New York Times
Reporting on the Welfare System
2004
Rick Kaplan
MSNBC, former president of CNN News
Television and the War on Terrorism
2002
Jamie Shea
Director of information and press, NATO
The James D. Ewing Lecture on Ethics in Journalism
2000
Seymour Hersh
Author and journalist
Ethics and the Big Story
1999
Judy Woodruff
Senior correspondent and anchor for CNN Thursday night.
Covering Ethics and Character in the Presidential Campaign
1999
David Halberstam
Journalist and author
Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made: The Best and the Brightest, the Powers That Be
1998
Marvin Kalb
Director of Harvard University’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy
Journalism Ethics in the Competitive 24-Hour Market
1997
Bob Woodward
Investigative reporter, The Washington Post
The James D. Ewing Lecture on Ethics in Journalism
1996
William Raspberry
Columnist, The Washington Post
Race and Equity in America
1995
Rushworth M. Kidder
Former columnist, Christian Science Monitor, president of Institute for Global Ethics
James D. Ewing Lecture on Ethics in Communications
1994
Tom Brokaw
Anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw
Journalists at War
1992
Eugene Patterson
Former CEO, St. Petersburg Times, Professor of Journalism at Duke University
The First Amendment Does Indenture the Press with Companion Obligations
