The 2000 Philip M. Foisie Memorial Lecture

David Broder, political columnist and reporter for The Washington Post, delivered the fifth annual Philip M. Foisie Memorial Lecture on May 22, 2000, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Montreal. He spoke from notes and his talk was tape-recorded.

A Pulitzer Prize winner for his commentary, Broder arguably is America’s most highly regarded political reporter and columnist, known for his integrity, accuracy and insight. A few years ago a survey of opinion page editors of the country’s 200 largest papers rated him as “best reporter, hardest working, least ideological.” New Yorker magazine described him as “the dean of American political writers.”

His …

The 1999 Philip M. Foisie Memorial Lecture

The fourth annual Philip M. Foisie Memorial Lecture was delivered on May 12, 1999, at the Chicago Athletic Club, Chicago, Ill., by syndicated columnist E.J. Dionne.

Dionne spent 14 years with the New York Times, reporting on state and local government, national politics, and from around the world, including stints in Paris, Rome and Beirut. The Los Angeles Times praised his coverage of the Vatican as the best in two decades.

His analysis of American politics and trends of public sentiment is recognized as among the best in the business.

In 1990, Dionne joined the Washington Post as a reporter, …

The 1998 Philip M. Foisie Memorial Lecture

The third annual Philip M. Foisie Memorial Lecture was delivered on May 12, 1998, at the Westgate Hotel, San Diego, Calif., by Sandra Mims Rowe, editor of The Oregonian in Portland, Oregon, the largest newspaper in the Northwest.

From 1984 until April 1993, Ms. Rowe was executive editor and vice president of The Virginian-Pilot and the Ledger-Star of Norfolk and Virginia Beach, Virginia. She had been with the papers for 22 years, serving as reporter, assistant city editor, features editor and managing editor before being named executive editor in 1984. Under her leadership, the newspaper won the Pulitzer Prize for …

The 1997 Philip M. Foisie Memorial Lecture

The second annual Philip M. Foisie Memorial Lecture was delivered on May 6, 1997, at the Barcelona International Press Centre, Barcelona, Spain, by Jordan “Buzz” Rizer, director of the American Forces Information Service, the U.S. Defense Department agency that supports The European and Pacific Stars and Stripes newspapers.

Ladies and Gentlemen:

I am a publisher. As such, I have two important functions. Both are of equal importance and really relate to each other. The first is to provide for journalistic needs, both news and opinion, of our readers, a largely military audience. The second is to earn and manage the …

The 1996 Philip M. Foisie Memorial Lecture

The first Philip M. Foisie Memorial Lecture was delivered on May 7, 1996, at the KormanSuites Hotel and Conference Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., by Benjamin C. Bradlee, vice president at-large and former executive editor of The Washington Post.

A chat with Ben Bradlee

The Washington Post wasn’t the first American newspaper to hire an ombudsman. But in 1980 it dramatically showed the journalism profession how important this position can be to a paper’s credibility.

That was the year The Post had to return a Pulitzer Prize when it learned it had been hoaxed by one of its reporters, Janet …