Speaker Series

JOSH MARSHALL

RORY KENNEDY

JOSH MARSHALL keynoted the inaugural symposium of the Park Center for Independent Media in September 2008. Founder of the Talking Points Memo/TPM Muckraker blogs, he won the 2008 Polk Award in legal reporting for relentless coverage of the politically-motivated firings of U.S. Attorneys by the White House. That coverage led to Congressional hearings and the ultimate resignation of the Attorney General. Marshall spoke on “The Growth of Talking Points Memo and the Importance of Independent Media.” Click here for a condensed version of the speech.

RORY KENNEDY, award-winning documentary filmmaker, was our inaugural speaker in January 2008. Kennedy is the co-founder/president of Moxie Firecracker Films, Inc. Her impressive body of work tackles some of our most pressing social concerns--poverty, domestic abuse, drug addiction, human rights, AIDS and mental illness--and has garnered numerous awards and been featured on HBO, A&E, MTV, Lifetime, The Oxygen Network, Court TV, TLC and PBS.

IC View's report on Kennedy's visit to Ithaca.