Confused by the News? Three Journalists Sort Through the Noise.

*Please note: This event will take place at the Cornwall Consolidated School, 5 Cream Hill Road, in West Cornwall.

For those brave enough to follow the news these days, the experience can be overwhelming. What’s real and what’s fake? What is the truth? How is technology changing the equation? Journalists Kurt Andersen, Charlotte Howard, and Joel Simon discuss the state of the news industry and provide practical guidance on how people across the political spectrum who want to be informed and engaged can stay up to speed.

Kurt Andersen is the author of the recent New York Times bestsellers Evil Geniuses and Fantasyland, as well as the bestselling novels You Can’t Spell America Without Me, True Believers, Heyday, and Turn of the Century. Recently he co-created the satirical streaming series Command Z with Stephen Soderbergh, and co-produced and hosted the podcast Nixon at War. He’s a regular contributor to the New York Times and The Atlantic. Previously he was host of the public radio show Studio 360, a columnist for the New Yorker, editor in chief of New York, and co-founder of Spy magazine.

Charlotte Howard is The Economist’s executive editor, New York bureau chief and co-host of the Checks and Balance podcast. In prior roles at The Economist she has covered American business, the energy sector and climate policy, health care and America’s Midwest. 

Joel Simon is founding director of the Journalism Protection Initiative at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY and the former executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists. He is author of four books and writes on media issues for the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Columbia Journalism Review.

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