FORA.tv Speaker - Janny Scott

Janny Scott has been a reporter for The New York Times since 1994. She is currently assigned to cover ideas and intellectual life for the culture department. Over the past year she has also written extensively about media coverage of the Monica Lewinsky matter and about public attitudes toward President Clinton. Before going to work in the culture department, she covered metropolitan news and occasionally wrote first-person pieces about life with children in New York City. Ms. Scott worked at the Los Angeles Times from 1985-1994, during which time she covered medicine and public health for five years.