Kathy Kiely
Kathy Kiely on the Media's Echo Chamber
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Kathy Kiely on the Media's Echo Chamber
http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/pubaffairs/newsletter/04011/kiely.html
"The media has been utterly transformed by technology," said Media Fellow Kathy Kiely in her seminar "Life in the Echo Chamber: How Media Has Changed—for Better and Worse."
"In the midst of an information revolution news arrives at the speed of a silicon chip," she said, "but is this a good thing?" She explored the pros and cons of how journalists develop stories, stating that too often journalists are pursuing the next big story, such as O.J. Simpson, and using television—which she referred to as the "echo chamber" of 24 hour cable news shows—to develop stories.
"Journalists will never achieve the promise of technology," Kiely said, "until they conquer the big story and break out of the echo chamber."
Kiely is a reporter with USA Today's News section. She joined the newspaper in 1998. A Princeton University graduate, she wrote and edited the school's five-day-a-week paper, the Daily Princetonian. She now serves on the board of trustees for that independent student publication.
After graduation, Kiely returned to Pittsburgh where she began working as a general assignment reporter for the Pittsburgh Press. She moved to the Houston Post in 1984, interrupted by a one-year-hiatus in 1990–91 when she was a Knight Fellow at Stanford University. After the Houston Post folded in 1995, she became the Washington Bureau chief for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. From 1997–98, she covered the White House for the New York Daily News.
Kiely is a former member of the Congressional Standing Committee of Correspondents for which she helped coordinate press logistics for the 2000 political conventions. She chairs the National Press Club's Scholarship Committee and is a member of the Gridiron Club.
The Media Fellows Program allows print and broadcast media professionals to spend time in residence at the Hoover Institution. Media fellows have the opportunity to exchange information and perspectives with Hoover scholars through seminars and informal meetings and with the Hoover and Stanford communities in public lectures. As fellows, they have the full range of research tools Hoover offers available to them. More than 100 of the nation's top journalists have visited the Hoover Institution recently and interacted with Hoover fellows on key public policy issues, including
* Carla Marinucci, San Francisco Chronicle (in residence at Hoover December 8–12)
* Carl Hulse, New York Times (December 8–12, 2003)
* Rosemary Goudreau, Tampa Tribune (December 8–12)
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Media Fellows Program
http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/research/media.html
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By Kathy Kiely, USA TODAY
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This is the first time two Hispanics have served in the Senate.
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97 senators hold at least a bachelor's degree, 20 earned master's degrees, 57 have law degrees, four have medical degrees and three were Rhodes Scholars.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-01-02-congress_x.htm
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http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/pubaffairs/newsletter/04011/kiely.html
"The media has been utterly transformed by technology," said Media Fellow Kathy Kiely in her seminar "Life in the Echo Chamber: How Media Has Changed—for Better and Worse."
"In the midst of an information revolution news arrives at the speed of a silicon chip," she said, "but is this a good thing?" She explored the pros and cons of how journalists develop stories, stating that too often journalists are pursuing the next big story, such as O.J. Simpson, and using television—which she referred to as the "echo chamber" of 24 hour cable news shows—to develop stories.
"Journalists will never achieve the promise of technology," Kiely said, "until they conquer the big story and break out of the echo chamber."
Kiely is a reporter with USA Today's News section. She joined the newspaper in 1998. A Princeton University graduate, she wrote and edited the school's five-day-a-week paper, the Daily Princetonian. She now serves on the board of trustees for that independent student publication.
After graduation, Kiely returned to Pittsburgh where she began working as a general assignment reporter for the Pittsburgh Press. She moved to the Houston Post in 1984, interrupted by a one-year-hiatus in 1990–91 when she was a Knight Fellow at Stanford University. After the Houston Post folded in 1995, she became the Washington Bureau chief for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. From 1997–98, she covered the White House for the New York Daily News.
Kiely is a former member of the Congressional Standing Committee of Correspondents for which she helped coordinate press logistics for the 2000 political conventions. She chairs the National Press Club's Scholarship Committee and is a member of the Gridiron Club.
The Media Fellows Program allows print and broadcast media professionals to spend time in residence at the Hoover Institution. Media fellows have the opportunity to exchange information and perspectives with Hoover scholars through seminars and informal meetings and with the Hoover and Stanford communities in public lectures. As fellows, they have the full range of research tools Hoover offers available to them. More than 100 of the nation's top journalists have visited the Hoover Institution recently and interacted with Hoover fellows on key public policy issues, including
* Carla Marinucci, San Francisco Chronicle (in residence at Hoover December 8–12)
* Carl Hulse, New York Times (December 8–12, 2003)
* Rosemary Goudreau, Tampa Tribune (December 8–12)
================================
Media Fellows Program
http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/research/media.html
===================================
New Congress reflects nation's division, diversity
By Kathy Kiely, USA TODAY
SENATE HIGHLIGHTS
This is the first time two Hispanics have served in the Senate.
Barack Obama is only the third African-American elected to the Senate (Republican Edward Brooke and Democrat Carol Mosley Braun were the others).
97 senators hold at least a bachelor's degree, 20 earned master's degrees, 57 have law degrees, four have medical degrees and three were Rhodes Scholars.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-01-02-congress_x.htm
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Topics: Congress: ongress Looks at Its Own Vulnerability to Attack
An article written by Kathy Kiely that appeared in USA Today on October
15, 2001. Author: Kathy Kiely Title: "Congress Looks at ...
Freewheeling 'bloggers' are rewriting rules of journalism Objectivity? Not here -- and the masses eat it up
By Kathy Kiely
USA Today (Cover Story)
12/30/03
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