The news about the news has been dire: closures, layoffs, consolidations. These events are happening as media outlets struggle to adapt to technological change, withstand ideological attacks, inform a fractured public, and fix their own failures to provide diverse, ethical information.
At a time of significant world events – from wars to climate change to a crucial election and the emergence of artificial intelligence – Loyola Marymount University’s Media, Arts and a Just Society initiative is convening journalists, scholars, historians, students, and entrepreneurs to explain the current crisis in the media and look at the future of journalism.
MAJS presents “Truth, or Consequences: A Forum on the Future of, and Imperative for, Journalism,” from 4:30 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, April 10, 2024. The event in LMU’s Ahmanson Auditorium is free and open to the public.
Tara McGowan, founder of Courier news network, will offer a keynote at 4:30 p.m.; and a 6 p.m. panel discussion will follow with Marie Hardin, dean of Bellisario College of Communications, Penn State University; Tricia Romano, author of “The Freaks Came Out to Write,” the oral history of The Village Voice; Jean Guerrero, former Los Angeles Times and KPBS reporter, and author of “Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump and the White Nationalist Agenda;” Shana Naomi Krochmal, vice president of podcasting for LAist Studios; and Emma Fox, LMU Journalism Class of 2024.
LMU Special Advisor and Ambassador Carol Costello, former anchor and correspondent at CNN and HLN, will make opening remarks for the panel, and Chris Finlay, associate professor of communication studies, will serve as moderator. Robbin Crabtree, dean of LMU Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts, will open the keynote.
The event is supported by LMU’s Forum on Media Ethics & Social Responsibility, Global Policy Institute and Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Center for Study of Los Angeles, as well as LMU Journalism in the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts.
Find the schedule and register for the event here.
