Date and Time:
Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023, 5 - 7 p.m.Location:
Arizona State University,
1800 I St. NW, Washington, D.C.
You can also attend via Zoom.
We invite you to join us for the Global Conversations taking place in Washington D.C. highlighting 11 award-winning journalists and communication professionals who are part of the prestigious Humphrey Fellowship program, based at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
The session will go over the following topics:
HOW DISINFORMATION IS THREATENING DEMOCRACY, providing a bird’s eye view of global trends around organized disinformation campaigns and how the media can fight them, with views from Korea, Malawi, Nepal, Pakistan and Peru.
IS NEWS A DYING BUSINESS?, highlighting threats to and opportunities for the news media industry amid shrinking revenues and audiences in the age of platforms and complicated social-political factors affecting its sustainability, with perspectives and solutions from Sierra Leone, South Korea and the Philippines.
THE CHALLENGES OF DIGITAL LITERACY, discussing digital literacy as a cornerstone of digital societies; its role as a catalyst for local economies; and its importance in building more equitable and democratic societies, and in fighting misinformation and disinformation. Views from Cuba, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan.
You can attend this event in person or via Zoom. To register for this event, click here.