A friend of mine, the editor of a magazine that had been an influential forum for critical reporting, turned his attention to cuisine and classical music.
Mr. Hertog, 60, said he was drawn to the magazine simply as an influential forum for the exchange of ideas, even if he did not agree with many of them.
He took over Bryant's weekly column in the Illustrated London News, an influential forum for reaching the sort of people he wished to reach, and this taught him to have a fluent but measured pen.
"The Conservative party has got to get beyond the idea of membership, and away from the party of mass membership, to mass communication... people don't like common political platforms any more, they are into single issues," said Tim Montgomerie, editor of Conservative Home website, an influential forum for grassroots Tory opinion.
As the culmination of this effort, in 1918 he led a group of financiers, industrialists, and corporate lawyers in establishing the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, which soon became the country's most influential forum for shaping public consensus for an expansive foreign policy.
While this criticism has captured many headlines (particularly around World AIDS Day) in the International Herald Tribune and other influential forums, it is misguided for several reasons.
The Minnesota Center was an extremely influential forum in this connection (for further details, see Smith 1986).
Our hope is that this turn into an influential forum".
Cited in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, Journal of Democracy is an influential international forum for scholarly analysis and competing democratic viewpoints.
The Church of All worlds also began publishing the Green Egg newsletter in 1968, which became the most influential public forum for Pagans many years and was instrumental in the formation of an emerging identity around the word "Paganism" (or "Neo-Paganism" as it was called at the time).
