A panel cosponsored by The Nation magazine and the School of Journalism will address "What's Right and Wrong with the Media" at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the Ernie Pyle Hall Auditorium.

The Nation editor and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel will join IU alumnus and Russian studies scholar Stephen Cohen and Department of Telecommunications assistant professor Julia Fox on the panel. School of Journalism assistant professor Mike Conway will moderate.

The Nation, a journal of politics, culture and arts, bills itself as America's oldest weekly magazine. Vanden Heuvel has been its editor since 1995 and is the author of Taking Back America and Taking Down the Radical Right and editor of the Dictionary of Republicanisms. She is a frequent political commentator on MSNBC, CNN and PBS.

Cohen is a contributing editor at The Nation, a professor of Russian Studies at New York University and the author of Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia, among other books.

Fox's research has focused on memory and television news. Her recent study, "No Joke: A Comparison of Substance in The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Broadcast Network Television Coverage of the 2004 Presidential Election Campaign," found that the Comedy Central "fake news" show provided as much substantive information as traditional television news.

Conway, who reported for a number of television stations before joining the School of Journalism faculty in 2004, studies the birth and early development of television news in the United States.

The event is free and open to the public. A question and answer session will follow the discussion.