ANN ARBOR—War correspondents Christiane Amanpour of CNN and Ashleigh Banfield of NBC will headline a national conference presented by the Knight-Wallace Fellows at Michigan. "Covering Permanent War and Bio-Terrorism: The Press and Public Policy" will be held on Monday, Jan. 27. Panels of journalists and experts will debate the media coverage of war and bio-terrorism and how it impacts policy decisions. Journalists include Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s chief international correspondent; Eason Jordan, CNN’s chief news executive and a working journalist; Judith Miller, New York Times reporter and co-author of GERMS: Biological Weapons and America’s Secret War; Ashleigh Banfield, NBC correspondent and anchor; Maryn McKenna, science and medicine staff writer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution; and a journalist from the Washington Bureau of the Al Jazeera Satellite Television Network. Kevin Klose, President and CEO, National Public Radio; Nadia Rahman, Senior Producer, Al Jazeera Satellite Television, Tom Rosenstiel, Director, Project for Excellence in Journalism. Experts include Ismael Ahmed, Executive Director of the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS) in Dearborn, Michigan; James R. Baker Jr., MD, Director of the Center for Biologic Nanotechnology, University of Michigan; Arnold Monto, MD, Director of the Bioterrorism Center, University of Michigan School of Public Health; Paul Rees, Managing Director of Centurion Risk Assessment Services, a company that trains journalists for working in hostile conditions; Ed Thompson, MD, Deputy Director for Public Health Programs and Services of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC); Janet Odeshoo, Deputy Regional Director for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA); and Monica Schoch-Spana, PhD, Medical Anthropologist at the Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies at Johns Hopkins University. "Covering Permanent War & Bio-Terrorism" is sponsored by the Knight-Wallace Fellows at Michigan, a fellowship program for professional journalists, with a grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The conference, which is free and open to the public, is 1-5 p.m. Jan. 27. at the U-M Alumni Center, 200 Fletcher Street, Ann Arbor. For more information, call 734-998-7666.