Journalist Rebecca MacKinnon Visiting J-School This Week

Published: March 30, 2004

Former CNN Tokyo bureau chief Rebecca MacKinnon is on campus this week and will speak daily to a number of J-school classes about her experience as a journalist covering major events in Japan, China, Taiwan, North and South Korea, the Philippines, and Pakistan.

MacKinnon recently left CNN to pursue her research on the impact of new technologies on Journalism. She is currently a fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, politics and Public Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

MacKinnon's scheduled J-School class visits:

Monday, March 29, 2004
9:15-11 a.m.	J414 (International Newsgathering Systems)	Prof. Raymer.
Tuesday, March 30, 2004
9:15-11 a.m.	J321 (Principles of Public Relations), Ernie Pyle Hall Room 220	Prof. Beth Wood.
2:30-4 p.m.	J531 (Public relations for Nonprofits), Ernie Pyle Hall room 214	Prof. Beth Wood.
6-7:30 p.m.	J200/J201 (Reporting and News Writing), Ernie Pyle Hall Room 220	Greg Kueterman and Mark Land.
Wednesday, March 31, 2004
10-11:30 a.m.	J343 (Broadcast News), Ernie Pyle Hall room 210	Prof. Lee Giles.
2:30-4 p.m.	J201 (Reporting, Writing and Editing II), Ernie Pyle Hall room 213	Prof. Bonnie Brownlee.
Thursday, April 01, 2004
9:15-11:15 a.m.	J353 (Advanced Broadcast News), Ernie Pyle Hall room 210	Prof. Lee Giles.
11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.	J385 (Advanced Television News), Ernie Pyle Hall room 210	Prof. Chuck Carney.
Friday, April 02, 2004
10:10-11:00 a.m.	J110 (Principles of Journalism & Mass. Comm.) Ballantine Hall 013	Prof. Michael Evans