DATE: Friday, November 6
TIME: 12:00 Noon
BUILDING & ROOM: 101 MHAB (Lecture Hall in F. Marie Hall Academic Building)
NAME OF SPEAKER: Ken Goldstein
COST/FEE: None - Free Admission

CONTACT NAME, PHONE & EMAIL ADDRESS: Sondra Richards
srichards@midland.edu
685-6815

Ken Goldstein - a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Director of the University of Wisconsin Advertising Project - will be on the Midland Campus speaking about the media's role in politics and elections.

Ken is the author of Interest Groups, Lobbying, and Participation in America, Understanding American Government and Campaign Advertising and American Democracy, as well as over 30 journal articles and book chapters on political communication, voter turnout, campaign finance, survey methodology, Israeli politics, presidential elections, and news coverage of health issues.

Professor Goldstein is currently a consultant for the ABC News elections unit and a member of their election night decision team. He has worked on network election night coverage in every U.S. federal election since 1988.