Emmy, Peabody and Scripps Howard Foundation Award-winning journalist, show host, and commentator Geraldo Rivera will headline the University of Cincinnati Department of Journalism’s event “Bearing Witness” on Saturday. The event will be held in the Probasco Auditorium at the University of Cincinnati. The event will showcase some of Rivera’s earliest TV news reporting, where he helped pioneer the Eyewitness News format at WABC-TV New York. “Bearing Witness” will also feature insights into Rivera’s use of television news to correct systematic injustices.Most prominent is his series on the abuse suffered by hundreds of patients with psychiatric disabilities at the Willowbrook State School on Staten Island. Rivera’s coverage of heroin’s impact on newborns is another example of his focus on TV news as a solutions-based platform for communities.With November marking the 60th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, “Bearing Witness” will highlight Rivera’s 1975 role in giving the public its first glimpse of The Zapruder Film of JFK’s murder.Nov. 11 is also the 55th anniversary of news director Al Primo’s launch of WABC-TV’s Eyewitness News format, which revolutionized the TV news industry worldwide.Appropriately, “Bearing Witness” will feature documentary clips of Primo’s creation as lived through the eyes of New York TV news legends John Johnson, Roseanne Scamardella, Melba Tolliver and Rivera.Longtime WABC-TV Eyewitness News assignment editor Joe Coscia will host the “Bearing Witness” event.Attendance is free, and the event is open to the public. “Bearing Witness” offers an opportunity for attendees and other interested members of the public to make contributions in support of broadcast journalism education at UC.These contributions will support the local news values embodied in Rivera’s work with Primo. Paul Print, executive director of development for UC’s College of Arts and Sciences, will be on hand to discuss how financial support will make a critical difference in the lives of the journalism’s next generation of eyewitnesses to life’s most important stories.
Emmy, Peabody and Scripps Howard Foundation Award-winning journalist, show host, and commentator Geraldo Rivera will headline the University of Cincinnati Department of Journalism’s event “Bearing Witness” on Saturday.
The event will be held in the Probasco Auditorium at the University of Cincinnati.
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The event will showcase some of Rivera’s earliest TV news reporting, where he helped pioneer the Eyewitness News format at WABC-TV New York. “Bearing Witness” will also feature insights into Rivera’s use of television news to correct systematic injustices.
Most prominent is his series on the abuse suffered by hundreds of patients with psychiatric disabilities at the Willowbrook State School on Staten Island. Rivera’s coverage of heroin’s impact on newborns is another example of his focus on TV news as a solutions-based platform for communities.
With November marking the 60th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, “Bearing Witness” will highlight Rivera’s 1975 role in giving the public its first glimpse of The Zapruder Film of JFK’s murder.
Nov. 11 is also the 55th anniversary of news director Al Primo’s launch of WABC-TV’s Eyewitness News format, which revolutionized the TV news industry worldwide.
Appropriately, “Bearing Witness” will feature documentary clips of Primo’s creation as lived through the eyes of New York TV news legends John Johnson, Roseanne Scamardella, Melba Tolliver and Rivera.
Longtime WABC-TV Eyewitness News assignment editor Joe Coscia will host the “Bearing Witness” event.
Attendance is free, and the event is open to the public. “Bearing Witness” offers an opportunity for attendees and other interested members of the public to make contributions in support of broadcast journalism education at UC.
These contributions will support the local news values embodied in Rivera’s work with Primo. Paul Print, executive director of development for UC’s College of Arts and Sciences, will be on hand to discuss how financial support will make a critical difference in the lives of the journalism’s next generation of eyewitnesses to life’s most important stories.