Join former New York Times public editor and award-winning columnist Margaret Sullivan as she surveys the volatile course of Election 2024 in the news media.
How successfully are mainstream news organizations navigating the events of the presidential race? In a media environment crowded with distractions and misinformation, are traditional news outlets proving able to serve voters’ needs? As November 5th approaches, Sullivan asks if American journalism is meeting the challenge of the 2024 election.
Sullivan served as Public Editor of the New York Times from 2012 to 2016, and as media columnist for the Washington Post during the 2016 and 2020 elections and their aftermaths, including the violent turmoil of Jan. 6, 2021. She is executive director of the Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security at Columbia Journalism School, a columnist for The Guardian US, and the author of two acclaimed books, Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy (2020) and Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life (2022). She was the first woman editor of her hometown daily paper, The Buffalo News, where she started her career as a summer intern.
In reviewing Newsroom Confidential for the New York Times, the New Yorker writer Steve Coll wrote that “Sullivan remains the critic American journalism requires, a veteran practitioner with street cred, still in touch with the ‘unaccountable joy’ of reporting and writing that continues to draw talented young people to the craft.”
Interlocutors: Nora Titone, Director of Programming and Undergraduate Research for the Parrhesia Program for Public Thinking & Rachel Wiseman, Managing Editor of The Point magazine.
This event is co-sponsored by the Parrhesia Program for Public Thinking, the Chicago Center on Democracy, and the Seminary Co-op Bookstores.
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Saturday, October 19th | 4pm-6pm
Logan Center for the Arts Performance Penthouse
915 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
Join former New York Times public editor and award-winning columnist Margaret Sullivan as she surveys the volatile course of Election 2024 in the news media.
How successfully are mainstream news organizations navigating the events of the presidential race? In a media environment crowded with distractions and misinformation, are traditional news outlets proving able to serve voters’ needs? As November 5th approaches, Sullivan asks if American journalism is meeting the challenge of the 2024 election.
Sullivan served as Public Editor of the New York Times from 2012 to 2016, and as media columnist for the Washington Post during the 2016 and 2020 elections and their aftermaths, including the violent turmoil of Jan. 6, 2021. She is executive director of the Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security at Columbia Journalism School, a columnist for The Guardian US, and the author of two acclaimed books, Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy (2020) and Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life (2022). She was the first woman editor of her hometown daily paper, The Buffalo News, where she started her career as a summer intern.
In reviewing Newsroom Confidential for the New York Times, the New Yorker writer Steve Coll wrote that “Sullivan remains the critic American journalism requires, a veteran practitioner with street cred, still in touch with the ‘unaccountable joy’ of reporting and writing that continues to draw talented young people to the craft.”
Interlocutors: Nora Titone, Director of Programming and Undergraduate Research for the Parrhesia Program for Public Thinking & Rachel Wiseman, Managing Editor of The Point magazine.
This event is co-sponsored by the Parrhesia Program for Public Thinking, the Chicago Center on Democracy, and the Seminary Co-op Bookstores.
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Saturday, October 19th | 4pm-6pm
Logan Center for the Arts Performance Penthouse
915 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637