The National Academies, the Radio-Television News Directors Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security held the first News and Terrorism: Communicating in a Crisis workshop in Chicago on August 11, 2004. Over 90 reporters, public information officers, and scientists and engineers participated in the event.
PROGRAM
August 11, 2004
The Kellogg School of Management
Northwestern University
340 East Superior Street
Chicago, Illinois
MODERATOR: John McWethy, Special Correspondent, ABC News
| 8:00 a.m. |
Registration and continental breakfast
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| 9:20 |
Welcome |
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Mary Hendrix, Ph.D.
President, Children’s Memorial Institute for Education and Research
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| 9:30 |
Welcome and Introduction of Keynote Speaker |
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Barbara Cochran
President, Radio-Television News Directors Association
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| 9:40 |
Remarks |
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The Honorable Tom Ridge
Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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| 10:15 |
Introductions of scenario panelists by John McWethy
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Cate Cahan, Interim News Director, Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ-FM) |
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Camille Edwards, News Director, WMAQ-TV, Chicago |
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Ron Huberman, Executive Director for the Office of Emergency Management & Communications, City of Chicago |
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Richard Jaehne, Director, Illinois Fire Service Institute |
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Ronald Sherman, Federal Coordinating Officer, FEMA Region V |
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Jim Webb, Chicago News Editor, Associated Press |
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Paul Ziemer, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Health Physics, Purdue University
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| 10:20 |
Scenario Exercise
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| 12:20 p.m. |
Questions and Answers
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| 12:50 |
Buffet Lunch
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| 1:30 |
Break
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| 1:45 |
Obtaining Science and Technology Background Information |
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Randall Murch, Ph.D
Research Staff, Institute for Defense Analyses
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| 2:00 |
Questions and Answers
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| 2:45 |
Rules of the Road: Incident command and preparedness |
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Richard Jaehne
Director, Illinois Fire Service Institute
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| 3:15 |
Questions and Answers
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| 3:45 |
Break
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| 4:00 |
Lessons Learned: Next steps for disaster and communications planning
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| 4:30 |
Wrap-up and evaluation
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| 4:45 |
Workshop concludes
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Special thanks to the Children’s Memorial Institute for Education and Research at Northwestern University for its generous support of this program.
Thanks to WBBM-TV and WBBM-AM for their production assistance.