Catherine Crier,
journalist whose resume includes Court TV, Fox News
Channel, ABC News and CNN
The Relationship Between
the Media and Business
 Business-press
relations have been quite rocky lately. Constant front-page
stories on WorldCom, Enron, Martha Stewart and Tyco have been
a major reason for this increasingly tenuous relationship.
Business executives feel too many stories focus on the
negative, wrongly painting a picture that all of corporate
America is involved in inappropriate actions. The truth is
those instances are the minority and most businesses are
responsible corporate citizens with great stories to tell.
This session will explore from a longtime journalist's
perspective, the often contentious relationship between media
and business. How reporters view the business community will be explored, as well as what CEOs and their PR
professionals can do to better get positive messages
out.
Biography
Catherine Crier, who has worked at Fox News Channel, ABC News and CNN, joined
Court TV in 1999. She serves as host of Catherine Crier Live,
a fast-paced, live daily series that
addresses the legal perspective of the day's
"front-page" stories. Catherine previously anchored Crier
Today and hosted Court TV's signature prime time series The
System. Her work on The System documentary The Interrogation of
Michael Crowe was recognized with a duPont-Columbia Award.
She also received two Gracie Allen awards for Outstanding
Program Host and for the Catherine Crier Live special, Grandmothers:
Voices from Oklahoma City.
She is the author of the New York Times Bestseller -- The
Case Against Lawyers, an eye-opening and
plain-spoken treatise on the law. In the book, Catherine shares her outrage at
the state of the justice system and calls American citizens to
demand reform.
Prior to joining Court TV,
Catherine anchored The Crier Report for Fox News
Channel, a live, one-hour interview program airing nightly,
during which she interviewed the leading newsmakers of the day
and celebrities. Catherine joined Fox News after spending
three and a half years at ABC News. There, she served as a
correspondent and as a regular substitute anchor for Peter
Jennings on ABC's World News Tonight, as well as a
substitute host for Ted Koppel's Nightline. She also
worked as a correspondent on 20/20, the primetime news
magazine program. Catherine was awarded a 1996 Emmy for
outstanding investigative journalism for a piece that examined nursing home
abuses throughout the United States. Catherine began her television
career at CNN, where she hosted Crier & Company,
a live, half-hour news talk show.
Prior to her television
journalism career, Catherine presided over the
162nd District Court in Dallas County, Texas as a state
district judge. When she took the bench in 1984, she became
the youngest elected state judge in Texas history. From 1982
to 1984, Catherine was a civil litigation attorney in Dallas
and before that, an assistant district attorney and felony
chief prosecutor for the Dallas County District Attorney's
office from 1978 to 1981. Catherine, a native of Dallas,
earned her BA degree in political science and international
affairs from the University of Texas. She received a JD in two
and a half years from Southern Methodist University School of
Law.
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