PREVIOUS EVENTS
The Year That Changed Journalism
Wednesday, October 4
2–7:30pm
Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta
75 14th St NE
Atlanta, GA
Click here for a recap of the event.
Kyle Pope, editor and publisher of the Columbia Journalism Review, and some of the nation’s top political journalists held a half-day conference in Atlanta looking at how the election of 2016 transformed the media, the voters, and the presidency.
Participants included:
- Glenn Thrush, White House correspondent, The New York Times
- Erik Wemple, media writer, The Washington Post
- Celeste Headlee, host, “On Second Thought,” Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Andra Gillespie, professor, Emory College of Arts and Sciences
- Paul Beckett, Washington bureau chief, The Wall Street Journal
- Ben Jacobs, political reporter, The Guardian
- Tamar Hallerman, Washington correspondent, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Vanessa Gezari, managing editor, Columbia Journalism Review
- Jason Szep, US national affairs editor, Reuters
- Jonathan Peters, press freedom scholar, University of Georgia
Race, Racism, and the News: Lessons for journalism from Charlottesville
Monday, September 18 in Charlottesville, VA
Panelists included
- Jamelle Bouie, chief political correspondent for Slate
- Kelley Libby, creator and producer, UnMonumental
- Collier Meyerson, fellow at the Nation Institute
- Siva Vaidhyanathan, director of the Center for Media and Citizenship at UVA
- Jenna Wortham, staff writer at the New York Times Magazine
- Jordy Yager, freelance journalist and winner of Association of Alternative Newsmedia’s 2017 award for race reporting
Sponsored by Columbia Journalism Review, the Center for Media and Citizenship, C-VILLE Weekly, and Charlottesville Tomorrow.
