Despite widespread agreement on the importance of the news media, public trust in the media is at an all-time low and a majority of the public now sees a great deal of political bias in news coverage. Join Greta Van Susteren, Batya Ungar-Sargon and Tim Groseclose at the UW–Milwaukee at Waukesha campus for a discussion about understanding media bias in the current state of affairs.
*Greta Van Susteren* is a former anchor at CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC. She spent about 7 years at CNN, hosting two shows, before moving over to Fox News Channel in 2002 where she anchored the prime-time show _On the Record_ for 14½ years. _On the Record_ remained the highest rated cable news program in its prime-time slot for the entire 14½ years. She is currently the host of _The Record with Greta Van Susteren,_ a news show on Newsmax TV that airs daily at 6pm Eastern / 5pm Central. The show broadcasts across the USA and is available on multiple platforms (cable, satellite, and streaming). Van Susteren received her BA with distinction in Economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She earned a Juris Doctor from Georgetown Law Center in 1979 and a Master of Laws from Georgetown Law Center in 1982.
*Batya Ungar-Sargon* is the deputy opinion editor of _Newsweek._ Before that, she was the opinion editor of the _Forward,_ the largest Jewish media outlet in America. She has written for the _New York Times,_ the _Washington Post,_ _Foreign Policy,_ _Newsweek,_ the _New York Review of Books Daily,_ and other publications. She has appeared numerous times on MSNBC, NBC, the Brian Lehrer Show, NPR, and at other media outlets. She holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and is author of the book _Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy._
*Tim Groseclose* is Professor of Economics at George Mason University and the holder of the Adam Smith chair at the Mercatus Center. He has held previous faculty appointments at UCLA, Caltech, Stanford University, Ohio State University, Harvard University, and Carnegie Mellon University. In 1987, Groseclose received his B.S. degree in Mathematical and Computational Sciences from Stanford University. In 1992, he received his PhD from the Stanford Graduate School of Business (specializing in the School’s Political Economics program). His research has focused on Congress, the media, and mathematical models of politics. He has published two books, _Cheating: An Insider’s Report on the Use of Race in Admissions at UCLA_ and _Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind._ He has published more than two dozen scholarly articles, including several published in the _American Economic Review,_ _Quarterly Journal of Economics,_ _American Political Science Review,_ _American Journal of Political Science,_ and _Journal of Politics._
