Joan Konner papers, 1950s-2010s

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Series IX: Speeches

This series contains Konner's remarks and addresses, as a guest lecturer and as a speaker before professional journalists' associations. Her remarks as Dean of the School of Journalism can be found in Series III: Columbia University.


Collected Speeches



Box 18 Folder 29 Speeches / Early, 1973-1974

National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Drop-In Lunch, 1973; AWRT Convention, 1974


Box 18 Folder 30 Remarks, 1995

Chicago Deans Meeting; Palisades Neighbors re: Behind the Scenes in Television


Box 18 Folder 31 Speeches, 1979-1987


Box 18 Folder 32 Speeches, 1987-1995

Broadcast Journalism: What's Missing; First Amendment Leaders' Breakfast "PBS: To Be or Not To Be"


Box 18 Folder 33 Speech / Award, 1988-1989

Brandeis College


Box 18 Folder 34 Speeches, 1988-2002



Box 19 Folder 1 Speeches, 1989-1995


Box 19 Folder 2 Speeches - Background, 1990


Box 19 Folder 3 Speeches - Background, 1990-1993


Box 19 Folder 4 Speeches by Others, 1983-2003

Bill Moyers, Warren Beatty, Norman Lear, Shirley MacLaine and others


Box 19 Folder 5 Speeches (Other People), 1989-1997

Bill Moyers, Fred Friendly, Roger Rosenblatt, Ellen Hume


Individual Speeches


Box 19 Folder 6 John Seigenthaler, Freedom Forum First Amendment Center, 1994


Box 19 Folder 7 The Crime of Professional Rape: A Story by Joan Konner, 1974


Box 19 Folder 8 Empire State Building 25th Anniversary Celebration, 1986


Box 19 Folder 9 Presentation of Joseph Campbell Show, 1987


Box 19 Folder 10 Broadcast Journalism: What's Missing?, 1987


Box 19 Folder 11 Broadcast Journalism: What's Missing?, 1987


Box 19 Folder 12 Remarks to the Program Fair, 1987


Box 19 Folder 13 Sarah Lawrence, 1988

A Celebration of Joseph Campbell


Box 19 Folder 14 WWOR, circa 1989


Box 19 Folder 15 New Jersey Press Association Luncheon, 1990


Box 19 Folder 16 Latvia Speech: "Partial View: Truth in Documentary Filmmaking", 1990


Box 19 Folder 17 Leaders: Other Voices, Other Values, 1991


Box 19 Folder 18 Moral Traditions as a Guideline, 1992


Box 19 Folder 19 Morals - Long Version, 1992


Box 19 Folder 20 Morals - Short Version, 1992


Box 19 Folder 21 Morals - Background, 1991-1992


Box 19 Folder 22 Morals - Background - Little, Fred, 1992


Box 19 Folder 23 Morals - Background - Myers, Mary Anne, 1992


Box 19 Folder 24 Morals - Responses, 1992-1993


Box 19 Folder 25 Morals - Responses, 1992-1993


Box 19 Folder 26 Morals - Responses, 1993


Box 19 Folder 27 Morals - Texas Trips, 1990-1992


Box 19 Folder 28 Rockland Leaders Dinner, 1992


Box 19 Folder 29 Rothschild Lecture, Radcliffe College, 1994


Box 19 Folder 30 Buying In or Selling Out? Women in Leadership Positions, 1994


Box 19 Folder 31 Applied Campbell: A Vehicle for Life, 1990-1995

Sarah Lawrence Commencement


Box 19 Folder 32 Is Journalism Losing Its Professional Standards?, 1995


Box 19 Folder 33 Bertlesmann, 1993-1995


Box 19 Folder 34 How to Educate Journalists of the Future, 1997

Speech to the Hearst Board


Box 19 Folder 35 Hutchins Committee Report: A Free and Responsible Press, 1997

University of Massachusetts, Springfield


Box 19 Folder 36 Ruder & Finn 50th Anniversary: The Civil War of Values, 1998


Box 19 Folder 37 Lumiere Productions, Inc. Advisory Board, undated