Season 1: Race and the News Media

Episode 4: Setting the Tone

In this episode of "Roundtables on Race," host the Rev. Kathy Walker explores the media's role and responsibility in "setting the tone," especially in respect to potential conversations news reports can encourage. She is joined by guests Paul Cuadros, an award-winning investigative reporter, author and professor at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill's Hussman School of Journalism and Media; Ralph Shaw, morning host at WTOB radio in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, whose decades-long career includes time as a news director, assignment editor, reporter, news anchor and contract news correspondent in both radio and television; and Skip Foster, former president and publisher of the Tallahassee Democrat, during whose 30-year career he was often called a consummate newsman.