Mike Wallace doesn’t get out and push everyone’s car. Let’s get that straight right now. But strange things have been known to happen when the Fellows go on airport runs to pick up the speakers for our twice-weekly sherry hours at Wallace House.
‘03 Fellow Ron French, for example, was thrilled to pick up Wallace – and mortified when his car broke down. Not too mortified to ask the journalism legend to get out and put a little muscle into it, apparently.
Our seminars bring speakers – those who make the news and those who report it – to you in intimate and candid off-the-record talks, often by a roaring fire in the warmth of Wallace House. In the past, our roster of guests has included such notables as: Jill Abramson, Madeleine Albright, Ken Auletta, Tom Arviso, Bill Cosby, Barbara Ehrenreich, Jeff Fager, Steve Forbes, Richard Ford, Ian Frazier, Anne Garrels, Charlie Gibson, Ira Glass, Amy Goodman, John Hockenberry, Kurt Luedtke, Kevin Klose, Gina Kolata, Alex Kotlowitz, Bill Kovach, Bob Mankoff, Michael Moore, Michele Norris, Dan Okrent, Patrick Oliphant, Susan Orlean, Peter Osnos, Clarence Page, Dick Pound, David Remnick, Paul Rusesabagina, Gene Roberts, Tom Rosenstiel, John Seigenthaler, George Soros, Paul Steiger, Gloria Steinem, Helen Thomas, Mike Wallace, Ellen Weiss and David Westin.
In addition, the Knight-Wallace Fellowship from time to time organizes a public policy conference, selecting topics of interest and pertinence each year and inviting the best and the brightest in the relevant fields. Our 2005 conference, Women’s Health: Press & Public Policy, attracted former FDA women’s health director Susan Wood, NPR’s Joanne Silberner, the NIH’s Vivian W. Pinn and Michigan Surgeon General Dr. Kimberlydawn Wisdom. The 2007 conference, The New Secrecy in the Media featured the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward, New York Times Managing Editor Jill Abramson, FOX-TV’s Greta van Susteren and NPR’s Jackie Northam.
