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Ethan Bronner ’76

Ethan Bronner '76, assistant editorial page editor of the New York Times, delivered the annual Philip Hallie lecture in the College of Letters Lounge at Wesleyan on Sept. 17, 2003. His talk was titled "The Ethical Challenges of Journalism (As Viewed from the New York Times)," and he drew from his own experiences to discuss the ethical dilemmas reporters face in attempting to cover countries where the flow of information is tightly controlled, such as Syria, versus those where information is freely available, such as Israel. A COL graduate himself, he is a Wesleyan trustee and the author of Battle for Justice: How the Bork Nomination Shook America (1989).
Ethan Bronner ’76, assistant editorial page editor of the New York Times, delivered the annual Philip Hallie lecture in the College of Letters Lounge at Wesleyan on Sept. 17, 2003. His talk was titled “The Ethical Challenges of Journalism (As Viewed from the New York Times),” and he drew from his own experiences to discuss the ethical dilemmas reporters face in attempting to cover countries where the flow of information is tightly controlled, such as Syria, versus those where information is freely available, such as Israel. A COL graduate himself, he is a Wesleyan trustee and the author of Battle for Justice: How the Bork Nomination Shook America (1989).