The News Committee is an elected body representing the news activities of EBU’s Members. It facilitates and fosters dialogue and cooperation amongst news directors, editors-in-chief and foreign desk editors on ways to improve coverage, reduce costs and innovate in news gathering and distribution. It sets the agenda for the annual News Assembly, a meeting that offers a unique forum to exchange best practices, media expertise and innovation in news gathering and distribution.
In announcing the formation of the committee, Yale President Maurie McInnis emphasized that the goal is not to come up with a single solution. Rather, the panel will begin “a process of reckoning and reflection” to discern what’s behind declining trust in universities, she wrote. The committee will seek the views of faculty from across the university as well as outside experts and critics, she said. “We cannot operate sealed off from the society in which we are embedded, and we must redouble our commitment to academic freedom and free speech,” McInnis added.
Each House committee holds a series of public hearings, at which the committee hears testimony from people with varying viewpoints on the issue at hand. The dates, times and topics of upcoming hearings are published on the Committee Schedules page. A transcript of each hearing is also made available. At the end of a deliberation, the committee votes on what action it should take, which can include reporting a bill with or without amendments to the full House, referring the bill to another committee, or deciding that the matter should be dropped from consideration. The results of those votes are recorded in the Committee Votes section of the website.
There have been several concerns about the makeup of the committee that was established to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and the role of the white supremacist group, Proud Boys. First, the panel has fewer members than were called for in its resolution. Second, it lacks a ranking member, as had been called for in the resolution, and the two Republicans on the panel are not ones that were recommended by the Republican leader, Rep. Kevin McCarthy. A federal judge ruled on May 1 that none of those concerns were valid enough to stop the committee from proceeding.