PCIM invites you to a talk by Graeme Joffe, a veteran sports journalist on Tuesday, March 26 at 6:30 p.m. in Textor 103. Joffe will talk about sports journalism and the hazards of independent reporting in South Africa.
Joel Simon, Executive Director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, will deliver a lecture on the state of media freedom in the United States and across the globe. Upholding freedom of expression and the rights of journalists is essential at a time when reporters are being murdered and imprisoned in record numbers; when misinformation and disinformation are proliferating online; and when a new generation of autocratic leaders is seeking to suppress criticism and dissent.
The Park Center for Independent Media is organizing a public forum on November 12 at 4-5:30pm in Textor 103. IC Faculty members – Tom Shevory (Politics), Carlos Figueroa (Politics) and Allison Frisch (Journalism) will interpret the election results highlighting the key issues that were raised during the political campaigns across different states.
Journalist Brandon Smith will give a public lecture on the power of independent journalism in exposing police brutality and racial injustice on Wednesday, October 24th at 7 p.m. in Emerson Suites.
Smith was a winner of the Izzy Award along with activist Jamie Kalven in 2016 for challenging the official story about the killing of Laquan McDonald, an African American teenager, by Chicago police in 2014. Early this October, the police officer was convicted on counts of second-degree murder and battery.