Shaun King provides insights and ideas on how to combat the effects of “fake news,” reporting bias and declining media independence. King made this presentation to a sold-out audience in the Shove Chapel at Colorado College on February 20, 2019.
Shaun King is a Brooklyn-based writer and activist who focuses on civil and human rights, racial justice, and law enforcement misconduct. TIME Magazine declared him one of the 25 most influential people on the Internet. Before joining The Intercept where he now works as a columnist, he was the senior justice writer at the New York Daily Newsand writer-in-residence at Harvard Law School’s Fair Punishment Project. With the blessing of original publisher Frederick Douglass’ family, Mr. King is also rebuilding The North Star as a contemporary, online, hard news outlet.
The presentation was sponsored by the Journalism Institute at Colorado College and the Office for Equity and Inclusion at Pikes Peak Community College, and presented by Citizens Project, Jody Alyn Consulting, Pikes Peak Women, and the Pikes Peak Library District. Some funding was provided by the Griffis Journalist-in-Residence Program.
This episode of Town Square is courtesy of Citizens Project, a local grassroots nonprofit, 501(c)3, organization dedicated to defending and promoting equality, the separation of church and state, and respect for diversity. We educate the community through our online newsletter and nonpartisan voter guides, we monitor local government and public schools to ensure that rights and freedoms are upheld, and we mobilize residents to make their voices heard. Learn more at http://www.citizensproject.org/.
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Journalism Institute at Colorado College
Griffis Journalist-in-Residence Program
Town Square partner organizations include:
League of Women Voters of the Pikes Peak Region
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