Inside Media

On the opening weekend of the Newseum’s new exhibit, “Reporting Vietnam,” Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund founder and president Jan Scruggs and former UPI photographer Steve Northup share their memories of the Vietnam War.

On the 10th anniversary of The Huffington Post website, Washington, D.C., bureau chief Ryan Grim, senior politics editor Sam Stein and politics managing editor Amanda Terkel gather to talk about some of the biggest stories the site has covered.

Members of the U.S. Army’s 221st Signal Company, an official documenting agency for the U.S. Army, talk about their work chronicling the Vietnam War through photography and film.

Paul Begala, a political analyst and CNN commentator, interviews comedy writer Jon Macks about his new book “Monologue: What Makes America Laugh Before Bed.” Macks was the top writer for “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” for 22 years.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dana Priest moderates a panel that includes Kevin Kallaugher, a political cartoonist at The Economist and winner of the 2015 Herblock Prize for political cartooning; Thanassis Cambanis, a Middle East correspondent and author of “Once Upon a Revolution”; and Vanessa Tucker, vice president for analysis at Freedom House, an independent organization that promotes freedom around the world.

Vietnam veteran and author Tim O’Brien headlines a panel discussion about the Vietnam War, where he talks about his service and the award-wining novels based on his war experiences. He is joined by Quang Pham, the first Vietnamese American to earn naval aviator’s wings; Mary “Edie” Meeks, an Army Nurse Corps volunteer who served in Saigon; and Paul Coates, an Army veteran who served in Vietnam from 1965 to 1967.

To mark the 150th anniversary of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, author and historian James Swanson looks back at the event that shocked the nation.

Author and broadcaster Tavis Smiley shares the story of his 28-year friendship with renowned author, poet and activist Maya Angelou, the subject of his new book, “My Journey With Maya.”

Two days before the Nationals’ 2015 home opener, Kevin Sheehan and Thom Loverro, co-hosts of “The Sports Fix” on ESPN 980 Radio, preview the National League East champions' upcoming season and talk about the sports scene in Washington.

FBI Deputy Director Mark Giuliano and FBI historian John Fox talk about the history and significance of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list, which marks its 65th anniversary in March.

Award-winning photographers MaryAnne Golon and Lucian Perkins share their experiences of recording crises around the world and putting themselves in harm’s way to capture conflict on the human level. They are joined by Michael Abramowitz, director of the Levine Institute for Holocaust Education at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, which relies on documentation taken by photojournalists to provide evidence of war crimes and to capture stories of destruction and devastation.

Carol McCabe Booker discusses pioneering journalist Alice Dunnigan, who shattered barriers in the late 1940s by becoming the first black female reporter credentialed to cover Congress and the White House. Booker edited and annotated a newly published edition of Dunnigan’s autobiography, “Alone Atop the Hill,” providing historical context to the journalist’s remarkable story.

Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday previews the 87th annual Academy Awards and discusses some of the biggest hits — and misses — of the year.

Joel Simon, executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, talks about his new book, “The New Censorship: Inside the Global Battle for Media Freedom.”

Eric Dezenhall, who heads one of the nation’s leading crisis management firms, talks about his new book, “Glass Jaw: A Manifest for Defending Fragile Reputations in an Age of Instant Scandal.”

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.

On the opening weekend of the Newseum exhibit, “1965: Civil Rights at 50,” Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and CBS News White House correspondent Bill Plante talk about their memories of the civil rights movement.

In the wake of the attack on the satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo, U.S. director of Reporters Without Borders, Delphine Halgand, joins the Newseum and Nikahang Kowsar, a member of the board of directors of Cartoonists Rights Network International, for a timely discussion about free expression and the dangers journalists face worldwide.

Associated Press Washington bureau chief Sally Buzbee and USA Today Washington bureau chief Susan Page discuss restrictions on press access to President Obama.

W. Joseph Campbell talks about his new book, “1995: The Year the Future Began,” which examines the events of that watershed year and how they reverberate today.