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Dr. Jeffrey Herbst is the fourth president in the 70-year history of American Jewish University. Prior to joining AJU, he was president and CEO of the Newseum and the Newseum Institute in Washington, D.C. And from 2010 to 2015, he was the president of Colgate University. The Future of Jewish is a podcast hosted by Joshua Hoffman, the founder of JOOL. In each episode, Joshua is joined by top leaders, thinkers, and doers who are paving the path for a promising Jewish future.

Benjamin P. Marcus is the religious literacy specialist with the Religious Freedom Center of the Newseum Institute, where he examines the intersection of education, religious literacy, and identity formation in the United States. He is a contributing author in the Oxford Handbook on Religion and American Education, where he writes about the importance of religious literacy education.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Benjamin P. Marcus is the religious literacy specialist with the Religious Freedom Center of the Newseum Institute, where he examines the intersection of education, religious literacy, and identity formation in the United States. He is a contributing author in the Oxford Handbook on Religion and American Education, where he writes about the importance of religious literacy education.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

Benjamin P. Marcus is the religious literacy specialist with the Religious Freedom Center of the Newseum Institute, where he examines the intersection of education, religious literacy, and identity formation in the United States. He is a contributing author in the Oxford Handbook on Religion and American Education, where he writes about the importance of religious literacy education.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/education

Benjamin P. Marcus is the religious literacy specialist with the Religious Freedom Center of the Newseum Institute, where he examines the intersection of education, religious literacy, and identity formation in the United States. He is a contributing author in the Oxford Handbook on Religion and American Education, where he writes about the importance of religious literacy education.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Benjamin P. Marcus is the religious literacy specialist with the Religious Freedom Center of the Newseum Institute, where he examines the intersection of education, religious literacy, and identity formation in the United States. He has developed religious literacy programs for public schools, universities, U.S. government organizations, and private foundations, and he has delivered presentations on religion at universities and nonprofits in the U.S. and abroad. He has worked closely with the U.S. State Department, Interfaith Youth Core, the Foundation for Religious Literacy, and the Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme in the United Kingdom. In February 2018, Marcus was accepted as a Fulbright Specialist for a period of three years. As a Specialist, he will share his expertise on religion and education with select host institutions abroad. Marcus chaired the writing group for the Religious Studies Companion Document to the C3 Framework, a nationally recognized set of guidelines used by state and school district curriculum experts for social studies standards and curriculum development. He is a contributing author in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook on Religion and American Education, where he writes about the importance of religious literacy education. In 2015 he served as executive editor of the White Paper of the Sub-Working Group on Religion and Conflict Mitigation of the State Department's Religion and Foreign Policy Working Group. Marcus earned an MTS with a concentration in Religion, Ethics, and Politics as a Presidential Scholar at Harvard Divinity School. He studied religion at the University of Cambridge and Brown University, where he graduated magna cum laude.

How does our religious literacy intersect with our notion of religious freedom? Jack is joined by Charles Watson Jr (Baptist Joint Committee on Religious Liberty) and Benjamin Marcus (Religious Freedom Center of the Newseum Institute) to discuss their work on Capitol Hill and with students.

Gene Policinski, president of the Newseum Institute in Washington D.C. and the executive director of the First Amendment Center of the Freedom Forum Institute, spoke with the University of South Dakota podcast Credit Hour for a wide-ranging discussion on the First Amendment and state of the media.“If I had to take away one thing from my career, it’s the sort of wonderment that there are so many good people in the process,” Policinski said.Gene discusses how free speech impacts protests, the impact of technology on media and his favorite Al Neuharth story. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Scott Williams is the Chief Operating Officer at the Newseum in Washington D.C, (“Traveler’s Choice, Top 25 Museums in the World” by TripAdvisor.com). He manages the teams responsible for sales, marketing and public relations for the Newseum and Newseum Institute, serves on the boards of The DC Chapter of the American Advertising Federation and is a published author. In today’s discussion, Scott and I talk about how to activate museum guests, things he learned from an Elvis tribute artist contest, and a social media campaign the museum promotes annually that gets people to think about a day #withoutnews. RESOURCES: Newseum Website A Day Without News Campaign Want more? Find the companion articles and other helpful tidbits on video production and promotion from Digital Bard. Suggest a guest on Facebook. Rate or review this podcast on iTunes.

How do we live together as one nation of people with so many different religious faiths? Kristen Looney of the Religious Freedom Center of the Newseum Institute shares her insights.

Benjamin P. Marcus is the Religious Literacy Specialist with the Religious Freedom Center of the Newseum Institute, where he examines the intersection of education, religious literacy, and identity formation in the United States. Join Commonweal Executive Director Oren Slozberg in conversation with Ben on the subject of religious studies in the educational system. Benjamin P. Marcus has developed religious literacy programs for public schools, universities, U.S. government organizations, and private foundations, and he has delivered presentations on religion at universities and nonprofits in the U.S. and abroad. He is a contributing author in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook on Religion and American Education, where he writes about the importance of religious literacy education. In 2016, Marcus was awarded a grant from the Germanacos Foundation to write lesson plans about religion for public secondary schools and to convene a regional conference on religious literacy pedagogies with teachers, administrators, subject matter experts, and professional consultants. He earned an MTS at Harvard Divinity School and studied religion at the University of Cambridge and Brown University, where he graduated magna cum laude.

Tiffany serves as CEO and creative director of Twice Media Production,LLC. She manages the overall direction of the company, makes key decisions on the company's behalf, and serves as creative director for all video marketing and production projects. Tiffany brings a wealth of knowledge and familiarity within the technology and digital marketing fields. She began working as a media trainer for the Freedom Forum Diversity Institute in Nashville, Tenn., in 2009, where she taught the basics of photography, audio and video production. Since then, Tiffany continues to work with the Freedom Forum (now the Newseum Institute) as well as a host of other clients, including Shell, Wells Fargo, Houston Airport System and the Houston Area Urban League. She also currently teaches video production at Prairie View A&M University. Williams received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Tennessee State University and her Master of Arts in Journalism and Documentary filmmaking from Michigan State University.

On today's lesson: We take a broader look at the First Amendment, and then zero in on one of the freedoms it covers: the freedom of speech.  We'll cover the text of the First Amendment in the U.S. Constitution, and why the framers chose to include so many important freedoms in one sentence.  Also, what constitutes 'speech', and how landmark court cases have outlined the importance of context when determining the meaning of our first amendment rights. Our guest is Lata Nott, Executive Director of the Newseum Institute's First Amendment Center. 

The Newseum Institute says that only a minority of younger voters actually back the full extent of the First Amendment. It's time to fix that.

April 21, 2016 | To many Americans, ISIS is a terrorist organization responsible for deadly plots in Paris and Brussels, for beheading Westerners, and for threatening America's security. The U.S. government has also recently declared the group a perpetrator of genocide. In the summer of 2014, ISIS committed genocide and crimes against humanity against ethnic and religious minorities in Ninewa province in Northern Iraq. The group forced more than 800,000 people from their homes and deliberately destroyed shrines, temples, and churches and kidnapped or killed hundreds, likely thousands, of people. ISIS decimated millennia-old communities, irrevocably tearing the social fabric of the once-diverse region. Distinguished experts in law and human rights discussed the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's latest Bearing Witness report on Iraq, which documented crimes against Yezidi, Christian, and other ethnic and religious populations in Northern Iraq. Panelists talked about the atrocities, analyzed current conditions in Iraq, and assessed future risks to civilians in the region. This event took place in the Newseum's Annenberg Theater, located at 555 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001. This event was co-sponsored by the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University, and the Religious Freedom Center of the Newseum Institute.

Gene Policinski, longtime journalist, chief operating officer for the Newseum Institute, and senior vice president of the First Amendment Center, talks to Daniel Ford about 2016 Presidential Election coverage, why we need more shoe-leather reporting, and what lessons news organizations, editors, and reporters need to learn to keep the profession relevant and necessary in the future.

Charles Haynes, founding director, Religious Freedom Center, Newseum Institute, discussing the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights recent report concluding that discrimination laws trump religious freedom.

After listening to the “Moment of Bedlam” at FFRF’s annual Non-prayer breakfast, we hear the Newseum Institute’s shout-out to the Freedom From Religion Foundation as a “well-organized” and “very effective” force fighting for the “nones” in today’s society. We play the new song, “Life After You,” then talk with the songwriter, Carter Warden, a former evangelical Church of Christ minister and founding member of The Clergy Project who came out as an atheist at FFRF’s convention in Pittsburgh this month. Carter describes why he left the ministry and how difficult it was to find employment outside the church.

ALSO AVAILABLE ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbaIUxpR9Yg Research shows that 9 in 10 of all news reports about Muslims, Islam and organizations are related to violence – war or terrorism. In fact, most Muslim newsmakers are warlords or terrorists. Alarmingly, media representations of Islam were worse in 2015 than any other time since 9/11. Are such portrayals representative of today’s global realities? Are Muslims simply over-sensitive? Are concerns with media depictions of Muslims and Islam in the West reflective of a liberal culture obsessed with political correctness? If not, are there opportunities for change? Moderator: Engy Abdelkader, Faculty, Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. Speakers: John Esposito, Founding Director, Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding in the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University; Arsalan Iftikhar, The Muslim Guy; Dalia Mogahed, Director of Research, Institute for Social Policy and Understanding. Special thanks to the Religious Freedom Center of the Newseum Institute for making this session possible. Read more on this panel at http://www.newseum.org/event/islamophobia-in-focus-muslims-and-the-media/

Attend this workshop to get an overview of how Google's tools can help you research stories, fact-check, find what's trending, and locate and quickly visualize useful datasets. The workshop will highlight: advanced Google Search techniques and refinements, Google Trends, Google Public Data Explorer, and more — to ensure you're fully covered on how to fully uncover things. Speaker: Samaruddin Stewart, Project Lead, Verified Pixel, SPJ-Google News Lab. Moderator: Brian Pellot, Director of Global Strategy, Religion News Foundation. Sample of Google News Lab tools: https://newslab.withgoogle.com/lessons Special thanks to the Religious Freedom Center of the Newseum Institute for making this session possible.

What are some of the top international religion stories we’re missing and how can we bring those stories home in ways that serve our editors' and audiences' needs? Leading journalists share practical ideas. Speakers: Tom Gjelten, Correspondent, Religion and Belief, National Desk, National Public Radio & Yonat Shimron, Managing Editor, Religion News Service. Moderated by Brian Pellot, Director of Global Strategy, Religion News Foundation. Special thanks to the Religious Freedom Center of the Newseum Institute for making this session possible.

With Rachel Leslie, Advisor for Public Diplomacy and Outreach, Office of Religion and Global Affairs, U.S. Department of State. Leslie works for Shaun Casey, the Special Representative for Religion and Global Affairs to Secretary of State John Kerry. She’ll discuss the office’s work on policy and refugees, particularly. Special thanks to the Religious Freedom Center of the Newseum Institute for making this session possible.

Nationwide polls on support for free speech are full of contradictions. Research conducted by Gallup, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and the Newseum Institute earlier this year found widespread support from college students for free speech in the abstract. However, the same poll also found tepid support when students were asked about specifics. According to the poll, a majority of respondents believed colleges should be able to restrict intentionally offensive speech and costumes that stereotype minorities. Another, more recent poll of the general population by the Newseum Institute and USA Today found a similar result. These studies, and others like them, have often confounded those of us in the free speech advocacy business. So, for this week’s show, we decided to send the inimitable Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) summer interns to Independence Mall—adjacent to FIRE’s Philadelphia headquarters—to conduct an unscientific survey of tourists’ attitudes toward free speech and other First Amendment freedoms. Are the polls right? Do Americans generally support free speech ideals, and does that support fall off when, for example, it comes to college campuses and flag burning? If so, why? The results might surprise you. www.Sotospeakpodcast.com Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/freespeechtalk Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/sotospeakpodcast Email us: sotospeak@thefire.org Call in a question: 215-315-0100

Jeffrey Herbst joins Harold Furchtgott-Roth for a discussion on protecting free speech while promoting civility in Internet communications.

Jeffrey Herbst joins Harold Furchtgott-Roth for a discussion on protecting free speech while promoting civility in Internet communications.

Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian has been held in an Iranian prison for more than 500 days on sham charges. Jason’s older brother, Ali Rezaian, speaks with the Newseum Institute’s Gene Policinski about international standards of human rights, global efforts to free Jason and the frustration of dealing with what seems – even under Iranian law – a violation of due process.

Rem Rieder, USA Today media writer and former editor of American Journalism Review, talks with the Newseum Institute’s Gene Policinski about lingering criticism that U.S. and European news media gave saturation news coverage to the Nov. 13 ISIS attacks and deaths in Paris, but much less – if at all – coverage to bombings in Beirut and Nigeria at virtually the same time. Is it cultural insensitivity, valid news judgment, or what some are calling “empathy fatigue”?

The Newseum Institute’s Gene Policinski talks with Angolan investigative journalist and human rights activist Rafael Marques, recognized with several international awards for his courageous reporting on conflict diamonds and government corruption. He currently heads the anti-corruption watchdog website Maka Angola. This program was recorded before a live studio audience in the Newseum’s Knight TV Studio.

Washington Post sports reporter James Wagner helped kick off the Newseum’s latest exhibit, “Nationals at 10: Baseball Makes News.” The Chips Quinn alumnus talked about his beat covering Washington’s major league baseball team, as well as the impact the Newseum Institute’s Chips Quinn Scholars program had on his career in journalism.

Mickey Osterreicher, general counsel for the National Press Photographers Association, talks with host Gene Policinski of the Newseum Institute on the use of these remotely controlled flying devices by news organizations, one day after the first field test by a media consortium in cooperation with the FAA.

As the Newseum opens “Reporting Vietnam,” a new exhibit marking the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War, veteran broadcaster Haney Howell – the last CBS News bureau chief in Saigon before the city fell in 1975 – speaks with the Newseum Institute’s Gene Policinski about what it was like to report in Vietnam and in neighboring Cambodia. Howell, now journalism professor emeritus at Winthrop University, also discusses the differences, both good and bad, in reporting from today’s global conflict zones.

Gene Policinski, chief operating officer of the Newseum Institute, moderates a panel discussion of experts exploring how Vladimir Putin has shaped his own public image, taken control of the Russian news media and marshaled public support to put Russia on a collision course with the West.

Newseum Institute chief operating officer Gene Policinski hosts a panel with three University of Maryland journalism students to discuss Press Uncuffed, their new campaign to free imprisoned journalists in partnership with the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Students Lejla Sarcevic, Teddy Amenabar and Courtney Mabeus are joined by Courtney Radsch, the advocacy and outreach director at CPJ, and Washington Post reporter Dana Priest, the Knight Chair in Public Affairs Journalism at University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism.

Newseum Institute chief operating officer Gene Policinski speaks with Katelyn Griffith, the print editor of the Oklahoma Daily, the University of Oklahoma student news operation. Griffith describes how the paper’s staff has responded to the challenge of reporting on the scandal surrounding the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity after a video surfaced this week showing fraternity members singing racist song lyrics.

Dr. John Watson, director of the journalism division of American University School of Communication, and Corey Saylor, national legislative director of the Council on American Islamic Relations, join the Newseum Institute’s Gene Policinski for a “town hall” discussion about free speech and religious liberty in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo tragedy.

In the wake of the the Jan. 7 Charlie Hebdo tragedy, the Newseum Institute’s Gene Policinski talks with Zainab Chaudry of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) about freedom of speech and how Islam views controversial speech and journalism.

The Newseum Institute, the Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism and the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland presented an all-star panel of top female sports reporters discussing the evolution of their role in journalism Dec. 6 at the Newseum.

The Newseum Institute’s Gene Policinski is joined by Jyllands-Posten cultural editor Flemming Rose for a discussion about the Danish newspaper's still-disputed decision to publish a series of cartoons satirizing the prophet Mohammed in 2005.

The Newseum Institute’s Gene Policinski interviews First Amendment expert and author Ronald K.L. Collins on the court’s approach to current cases and in recent years.

Frank and Sonya chat with Newseum Institute Chief Operating Officer Gene Policinski about the Institute’s initiatives that educate and engage the public on a variety of First Amendment issues.

The Newseum Institute’s Gene Policinski spoke with St. Louis Post-Dispatch photojournalist David Carson Wednesday, Aug. 13, amid the chaos in Ferguson, Mo., that saw police clash with protesters and journalists. Carson recounts his experience photographing the story, including being chased and knocked down by a mob. 

The Newseum Institute’s Gene Policinski interviews authors Paul Steinle and Sara Brown about their new book — and what’s good about journalism and the people who work in it. 

An appreciation of John Seigenthaler, founder of the Newseum Institute’s First Amendment Center, who died July 11 at age 86 after a multi-faceted career as a renowned local and national newspaper editor; author; host of one of public broadcasting’s longest-running programs, “A word on Words,” and advocate for First Amendment freedoms, civil rights and an independent judiciary.