FRONTLINE News War Screening / Panel Discussion at National Press Club (special invitation for MBA members)

MBA Members will be in the DC area on February 12th may reserve a seat at a special video presentation and panel discussion at the National Press Club in conjunction with the premiere of the new FRONTLINE serues. The event is sponsored by PBS, FRONTLINE and UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

RSVP to Robert Cox (rcox at mediabloggers dot org) on Monday, February 5th

DETAILS AS FOLLOWS:

Monday, February 12, 2007
Reception: 6:00 PM
Program: 7:00 PM

The National Press Club
529 14th Street, N.W.
Washington, DC

Invited panelists:

Leonard Downie, executive editor, The Washington Post
David Marash, senior correspondent, Al Jazeera International
Scott Moore, vice president, Yahoo! News
Brian Ross, senior investigative correspondent, ABC News

Moderated by Lowell Bergman series correspondent for FRONTLINE's News War.

For those not familiar with Bergman, you may recall he was portrayed by Al Pacino in the Michael Mann film The Insider with Russell Crowe as Jeffrey Wigand, "the high-level corporate executive who blew the whistle on Brown and Williamson Tobacco."