In the initial clip, Professor Robert E. Brown introduces two guest speakers to his Journalism class

Lisa Franklin, A.P.R., is an accredited public relations practitioner and spokesperson for more than 30 energy-industry power plants on the East Coast, including the local Salem plant, currently under the management of P G & E (Pacific Gas & Electric).

James Smith, a Mass. state representative from 1971-1979, serves as a governmental and regulatory affairs consultant to Franklin and the management of the Salem power plant.

Among the public issues addressed by Franklin and Smith are highly complex and contentious environmental matters such as "clean air," as regulated under the federal and state Clean Air Acts.

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Jan Schlichtmann, the attorney made famous by the book and the movie called "Civil Action." In the 1980s, Schlichtmann represented a number of aggrieved families in Woburn in a class action suit against W.R. Grace & Co. and other corporate and business firms alleged to have illegally disposed of toxic chemicals.

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Jacob Segal is Director of the Salem State College Foundation.

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Among the distinguished professionals visiting the journalism class (Com 471: Reporting Public Affairs) in sping 2003 was David Dahl, bureau chief of the St. Petersburg Times. Journalism students were treated to David Dahl's blow-by-blow account of how he and a partner produced an award-winning series of investigative stories in l998 about the conflict of interest that surfaced in the lobbying activities of members of Florida's congressional delegation.

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Suzanne Condon, Ass't Commissioner of Health for Mass, visited Reporting Public Affairs (Com 471) in March 2003. Condon showed a tape of her appearance on "Nightlline," in which she was featured as a "cluster hunter"-- an epidemiologist who investigates hard-to-explain "clusters" of diseases to ascertain potential environmental or other causes.

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The Salem State Enterprise Center is an incubator of fledgling and existing small businesses. Students in PR Case Studies and Advertising Cases are partnered with real-life entrepreneurs to deliver press kits, ads and other communications products and services.

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The Emmy-award-winning TV reporter and author visited Reporting Public Affairs (Com 471) to discuss his book, Risk, a layman's guide to assessing the dangers we face in a dangerous world. Ropeik, who has done commentary for National Public Radio and WCVB TV, is Communications Director for Harvard University School of Public Health.

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Lisa Bibeau is the director of Salem State College's Office for Students with Disabilities. In the fall of 2003, she spoke with Professor Robert Brown's public relations class about the importance of publicizing her office's mission, which is to provide high-quality services to the significant segment of students challenged by physical and visible, as well as psychiatric and invisible disabilities.

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