Batten Professor of Public Policy Steven Isenberg Steven L. Isenberg, a media executive who has suffered first-hand the pressure for newspapers to be financially successful, will speak at Davidson College on Thursday, May 3, about the dangers of that trend. Isenberg's resume includes an impressive list of assignments in journalism, government, and academia, mostly in the New York City region. He will bring much of that to bear in his talk entitled.
Admission is free.
Isenberg, who has been teaching at Davidson this semester as the James K. Batten Professor of Public Policy, said his talk will examine what's at stake when financial imperatives control journalistic aspirations. Isenberg was 41 before he did anything with newspapers beside deliver them and read them. But he had built up an impressive resume as chief of staff and assistant to Mayor John Lindsay in New York City, and had strengthened his hand with a stint as a corporate attorney. At that point in 1982 the publisher of New York Newsday invited him to learn the newspaper business as his personal assistant. Conn. He did well there, and was reassigned as associate publisher of a new paper, New York Newsday , in 1986 when the company launched it in direct competition against the New York Times , and The Daily News .