War correspondents Christiane Amanpour of CNN and Ashleigh Banfield of MSNBC will headline a national conference, “Covering Permanent War and Bio-Terrorism: The Press and Public Policy,” 1–5 p.m. Jan. 27 at the Alumni Center.

Panels of journalists and experts will debate the media coverage of war and bio-terrorism and how it impacts policy decisions.

Journalists include Amanpour, CNN’s chief international correspondent; Banfield, MSNBC correspondent and host of “MSNBC Investigates”; 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”; 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.

The event is sponsored by the Knight-Wallace Fellows at Michigan, a program for professional journalists, with a grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

The conference is free and open to the public. For more information, call (734) 998-7666.