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What is By The People?
By the People: America in the World, a new initiative of MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, aims to energize and enhance the national conversation on America's role in the world through a series of national and local broadcasts and events that demonstrate the relevance of foreign policy issues to local concerns. The project includes national PBS specials, local programming to be produced by PBS stations in cooperation with community organizations, national and local forums for civic dialogue, and an interactive web site. BTP Citizen Deliberations will take place in eleven communities around the country in mid-October. Dubbed Deliberation Day, these town hall meetings will be showcased in "Time to Choose" -- a national PBS broadcast produced by MacNeil/Lehrer Productions which will air on WHYY TV12 on Friday, October 22 at 8:00 pm. By the People receives primary funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation with additional support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
WHYY is participating in the By the People initiative for the second year in a row. Previous events this year were held in partnership with Philadelphia Cares, Philadelphia World Affairs Council, and the Philadelphia Inquirer's Citizen's Voices initiative to offer Greater Philadelphians opportunities to take a closer look at global issues and their local impact.
Online Resources
Recent Frank Newport interviews on Radio Times.
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By The People
 Our next event is another collaboration with the Philadelphia World Affairs Council. We welcome Dr. Frank Newport, Editor in Chief of the Gallup Poll for an election season discussion of why polls matter to a democracy. Topics will include how voters of this region perceive the presidential candidates and hot-button issues, as well as a look at how the battleground state of Pennsylvania plays into the national election. Moderated by Chris Satullo, Editorial Page Editor, The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Polling Matters: Why Leaders Must Listen to the Wisdom of the People
Date: October 12, 2004
Location: WHYY Independence Foundation Civic Space
150 N. 6th Street
Philadelphia, PA
Schedule:
5:15 p.m. Registration and reception
6:00 p.m. Program
7:00 p.m. Book signing
7:30 p.m. Adjournment
Cost: Wine and hors d'oeuvres reception and program: $25
RSVP online at the World Affairs Council or at 215-561-4700.
 About Frank Newport:
Frank Newport is the Editor-in-Chief of the Gallup Poll and Vice President of the Gallup Organization in Princeton, New Jersey. He is in charge of the Gallup Poll assessment of American public opinion, which has been continuously measuring public moods and attitudes in this country since the 1930's. The Gallup Poll is the America's oldest continuous public opinion monitor, and is now conducted in a partnership arrangement with CNN and USA Today, and is syndicated by the Los Angeles Times.
His articles and reviews have appeared in the American Sociological Review, the New York Times, The American Journalist Quarterly, the Journal of Political and Medical Sociology, Social Forces, Public Opinion Quarterly, and Public Perspective. He is the co-author of The Evangelical Voter: Religion and Politics in the U.S. and contributed to both the 1996 and 1997 editions of Where America Stands, published by John Wiley.
Dr. Newport has appeared regularly on television and radio programs as a guest expert on public opinion, politics and polling. He currently is the featured analyst on the Gallup Poll segments on CNN which appear regularly from Gallup's own studio at its Princeton world headquarters. Newport has appeared on many other broadcast and cable programs, including NBC's Today Show, CNBC, the Fox News Channel, the McNeil Lehrer Report on PBS, NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, the BBC, and CBC.
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