Co-sponsored by Internet Archive and New York University’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program, Tisch School of the Arts

New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor, Michelson Theater, New York, NY 10003

This conference highlights work by scholars using television news materials to help us understand how TV news presented the events of 9/11/2001 and the international response. Our collective recollection of 9/11 and the following days has become inseparable from the televised images we have all seen. But while TV news is inarguably the most vivid and pervasive information medium of our time, it has not been a medium of record. As the number of news outlets increases, research and scholarly access to the thousands of hours of TV news aired each day grows increasingly difficult. Scholars face great challenges in identifying, locating and adequately citing television news broadcasts in their research.

The 9/11 Television News Archive contains 3,000 hours of national and international news coverage from 20 channels over the seven days beginning September 11, plus select analysis by scholars. It is designed to assist scholars and journalists researching relationships between news events and coverage, engaging in comparative and longitudinal studies, and investigating “who said what when.” What kinds of research and scholarship will be enabled by access to an online database of TV news broadcasts? How will emerging TV news studies make use of this service? This conference offers contemporary insights and predictions on new directions in television news studies.

SCHEDULE

4:00: Welcome: Richard Allen, Chair, Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU
4:05: Brewster Kahle, Founder and Digital Librarian at the Internet Archive
4:15: Brian A. Monahan, Iowa State University
4:25: Deborah Jaramillo, Boston University
4:35: Marshall Breeding, Vanderbilt Television News Archive
4:45: Mark J Williams, Department of Film and Media Studies, Dartmouth College
4:55: Carolyn Brown, American University
5:05: Michael Lesk, Rutgers University
5:15: Beatrice Choi, New York University
5:25: Scott Blake, Artist
5:35: Discussion
6:00: Reception (Remarks by Dennis Swanson, President of Station Operations, Fox Television)