BOWLING GREEN, O. -- A distinguished panel of practitioners will examine the topic of journalism ethics during Communication Studies Week (March 22-26) at Bowling Green State University.

News Anchor Diane Larson of WTVG-TV in Toledo will moderate the discussion of ethics in the news media at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 23, in 202B Bowen-Thompson Student Union. Co-sponsored by the School of Communication Studies and the University's Social Philosophy & Policy Center, the program is free and open to the public.

The panelists will be: Kenny Irby, head of visual journalism at the Poynter Institute, a journalism school in St. Petersburg, Fla.; Paul Kostyu, Columbus bureau chief for the Copley Newspaper chain and a nominee this year for the Pulitizer Prize in investigative reporting; Eva Parziale, chief of the Associated Press Bureau in Columbus; Brian Trauring, news director at WTVG-TV, and Tom Walton, editor of The Blade, Toledo's daily newspaper. Larson, Kostyu, Parziale and Walton are all BGSU graduates.

Among questions to be posed to the panelists are: Was it a good idea for 600 journalists to serve as "embedded reporters" with the U.S. Armed Forces during the war in Iraq? Are minority points of view under-represented in the news? and, Do the media go overboard in covering negative stories, such as the murder of Laci Peterson?

The panel discussion is among nearly two dozen special events planned on the Bowling Green campus during Communication Studies Week.

Other program highlights include: a session on public relations for political candidates with Mark Luetke, president of Funk Luetke Skunda Marketing Inc. in Toledo, at 4:30 p.m. Monday in 117 Olscamp Hall; "

Investigative Reporting: Uncovering Tiger Force Atrocities," a presentation by Pulitzer Prize nominees for investigative reporting Michael D. Sallah and Mitch Weiss of The Blade, at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday in 202B Bowen-Thompson Student Union; "

Communication in Tunisia: State Control in a World of Globalization," a lecture by visiting Fulbright Scholar Dr. Hamadi Reddsi of the University of Tunis, at 2:30 p.m. Thursday in 308 Bowen-Thompson Student Union; and "

Communicating During 9-11," a talk by BGSU alumna Kathleen Frankart, vice president of public affairs for Verizon Communications in New York, at 12:30 p.m. Friday in 201 Bowen-Thompson Student Union.

See http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/commst/COMMWEEK04.htm for a complete schedule of events.

(Posted March 16, 2004 )