Makovsky & Company is an ongoing sponsor of the Columbia Journalism School First Amendment Breakfast Series, which offers programs 4 to 6 times a year at the Princeton Club. Special events and guests in 2003 included:

News Media & the Government: Fighting a War, Fighting Each Other?

Ashleigh Banfield
Correspondent, MSNBC

Christopher Hedges
Correspondent, The New York Times


The War in Iraq: A First Take on the Coverage

Kevin Buckley
Contributing Editor, Playboy

John Martin
Former national correspondent, ABC News;
instructor, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism

John Podhoretz
Columnist, New York Post

Katrina Vanden Heuvel
Editor, The Nation


The War in Iraq: A Foreign Perspective

Lionel Barber
Managing Editor, Financial Times, U.S.

Alice Chasan
Editor, World Press Review

Bernard Estrade
Senior U.N. Correspondent, Agence France Pressse

Abderrahim Foukara
Correspondent, al-Jazeera


Is Gossip News?

Neal Gabler
Author, Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality

Caroline Miller
Editor-in-Chief, New York Magazine

George Rush
Gossip Columnist, New York Daily News


The First Amendment and the Patriot Act

Lucy Dalglish
Executive Director, The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press

Viet D. Dinh
Professor of Law and Director of Asian Law and Policy Studies, Georgetown University

Hon. Michael B. Mukasey
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York


A Conversation with Judy Woodruff
CNN Anchor