[Englecturers] Ina Jaffe NPR at UCR

[John Ganim]

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UC Riverside's Holstein Public Lecture Takes on the Clash Between 
Religion and the Press
Panelists include NPR's Ina Jaffe, a scholar from Denmark and The 
Press-Enterprise religion reporter
(November 14, 2006)

Ina Jaffe, NPR correspondent
  Ina Jaffe, NPR correspondent
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) -- The potentially explosive 
interplay between religion and the press is the subject of a panel 
discussion at 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 30 at UC Riverside. The panel 
features National Public Radio correspondent Ina Jaffe; a religion 
scholar from Denmark, Tim Jenson; and the local religion reporter for 
The Press-Enterprise, Bettye Wells Miller.

"Offending Religions and Press Freedom in the Public Square" is the 
title of the 2006-2007 Holstein Family Community Lecture in Religious 
Studies, an annual event at UC Riverside. This one will take place in 
Conference Room E at the UC Riverside Extension Center.

"With the title of the panel, I intentionally meant to suggest both 
that religions can offend as well as be the object of offense," said 
Ivan Strenski, professor of religion at UC Riverside and the holder 
of the Holstein endowed chair. "This year I wanted to stir things up 
a little, with a topic that would be relevant to everyone."

He said the discussion will center on what it is to give offense, and 
what are the proper limits of offensive behavior, and when is it a 
person's duty to offend? One example is the clash between the 
journalistic instincts of a Danish editorial cartoonist and the 
religious sensibilities of the Muslim world after the publication of 
an editorial cartoon lampooning Mohammed.

The event is free and open to the public. A reception for the 
panelists will begin at 4:30 p.m. Parking permits are available for 
$3 at the Extension Center lot.

Biographies of the Panelists:

Ina Jaffe is a Los-Angeles-based correspondent for National Public 
Radio. She has reported on thousands of major news events, including 
New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, the war in Kosovo and the 
Persian Gulf, and the historic recall election that brought Governor 
Arnold Schwarzenegger to power. Jaffe received the California 
Journalism Award for covering politics and government in 2002 and 
2003. Before moving to Los Angeles, Jaffe was the first editor of 
Weekend Edition Saturday with Scott Simon which made its debut in 
1985. She earned the Clarion award from Women in Communications for 
her report on the first night of the Los Angeles riots; and her 
coverage played a role in NPR capturing the "Alfred I. 
duPont-Columbia University "Gold Baton" in 1992. She also shared a 
1988 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for the NPR report "A State 
of Emergency," which covered racial conflict in Philadelphia. Jaffe 
was born in Chicago and attended the University of Wisconsin and 
DePaul University receiving bachelors and masters degrees in philosophy.

Tim Jensen is a historian of religions, educated as an 
upper-secondary teacher in Religious Education. He is Associate 
Professor at The Institute of Philosophy, Education and The Study of 
Religions at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense.

Bettye Wells Miller is religion reporter at The Press-Enterprise. She 
has worked in journalism in Southern California for 33 years as a 
reporter, editor, freelancer and university instructor. Miller has 
worked for the Redlands Daily Facts, The San Bernardino County Sun 
and The Desert Sun. In 2005 she was one of 10 finalists for the 
Templeton Reporter Award of the Religion Newswriters Association.

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Additional Contacts:
<http://www.newsroom.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/mailto:ivan.strenski@ucr.edu>Ivan 
Strenski, 951-827-5986
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