October 2006

CNN’s Reliable Sources Comes to GW

CNN and GW are teaming up on a new project in the continuation of the University’s unprecedented partnership with the cable news network. CNN has announced its Reliable Sources program, which examines media coverage of the news, will begin taping in GW’s Jack Morton Auditorium on a monthly basis beginning in October. The first special edition of Reliable Sources, critiquing media coverage of the war in Iraq and the upcoming elections, was scheduled for taping Oct. 6. The program airs on CNN Sundays, 10-11 a.m.

Reliable Sources is one of CNN’s longest-running shows, premiering in 1992. CNN created the program concept during the Persian Gulf War when the network assembled a panel of distinguished journalists, including Walter Cronkite and Bill Moyers to discuss media coverage of the war.

Now hosted by Howard Kurtz, media critic for The Washington Post, the program also includes regular features including “Talk Back,” a chance for people in the news to respond to what they view as unfair media coverage, and
one-on-one interviews with major media figures such as
Tom Brokaw, Bob Schieffer, and Jon Stewart.

Since April 2002, over 775 CNN programs have been produced in GW’s Jack Morton Auditorium with more than 260 students working on the productions and over 123,000 students, faculty, staff, area residents, and visitors to the nation’s capital participating as audience members.

For free tickets to be a part of the studio audience of future episodes of Reliable Sources, e-mail CNN@gwu.edu. For more information, call (202) 994-8266.

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