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The traditional business model for journalism is collapsing, but it's not clear what will take its place: An update on new efforts to ensure a vibrant and independent press that include for profit, low profit, and non-profit news organizations.
Leonard Downie, vice president at large, and former executive editor of the Washington Post, co-author of a new report from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, "The Reconstruction of American Journalism"
Senator Ben Cardin, Democrat, MD
Stephen Engelberg, managing editor, ProPublica
Phil Balboni, founder, Global Post
Arianna Huffington, editor-in-chief, "The Huffington Post."
A geophysicist explains why all the earth's glaciers will likely be gone by 2031, and how to best prepare for the possibility of a world without ice.
Henry N. Pollack, professor of Geophysics at the University of Michigan; he and his colleagues on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore; now serves as a science adviser to Al Gore's Climate Project training programs.
Join Diane Rehm as she interviews Carl Kasell at George Washington University's Jack Morton Auditorium.
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