Lunch with an Author

Broadcasts from the Blitz:
How Edward R. Murrow Helped Lead America into War

Philip Seib

Philip Seib is Lucius W. Nieman Professor of Journalism at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He focuses on international news coverage, media ethics, and new technologies. Seib is author or editor of many books, including: Headline Diplomacy: How News Coverage Affects Foreign Policy; The Global Journalist: News and Conscience in a World of Conflict; and Beyond the Front Lines: How the News Media Cover a World Shaped by War. His most recent book is Broadcasts from the Blitz: How Edward R. Murrow Helped Lead America into War, and he is working on two books about media in the Middle East. He is the series editor of the Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication and is co-editor of the journal Media, War, and Conflict, to be published by Sage beginning in 2008.