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News Media in a Post-Fact World
Category: Government & Organizations
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2017-10-13 07:00:00
Description:

The term "fake news" has picked up steam in 2017, but attacks on the credibility of media institutions are not new. Join Israel Bayer, executive director of Street Roots; Kimberly Wilson, communications director at Meyer Memorial Trust; and moderator Ben DeJarnette from the University of Oregon's Agora Journalism Center, to examine how we got here, the challenges confronting today's media organizations, and the opportunities going forward. 


Speakers: 
Israel Bayer, executive director of Street Roots, has been working in the street newspaper movement for more than a decade. He has worked for Real Change, a street newspaper in Seattle, Washington and for the North American Street Newspaper Association. Israel is also a journalist, poet, photographer and painter.





Kimberly Wilson, Director of Communication at Meyer Memorial Trust, first worked as a general assignment reporter and investigative journalist at The Oregonian and The Baltimore Sun and in various reporting roles at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Associated Press. 
 

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Moderator: 
Ben DeJarnette is a project and product manager at the University of Oregon's Agora Journalism Center, and co-author of the new book Reimagining Journalism in a Post-Truth World: How Late-Night Comedians, Internet Trolls, and Savvy Reporters Are Transforming News. Ben is also a freelance journalist and holds a masters in media studies from the University of Oregon.
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