Professors Jun Yang (computer science) and Bill Adair (journalism and public policy) will discuss their work in automated fact-checking. For the past five years, Jun and Bill have worked together in a variety of Bass Connections, NSF, and foundation-supported projects that have broken new ground in instant fact-checking of political speeches and debates. They’ll discuss … Continued
Professor Jeremy Bowers and his Washington Post colleague, Lenny Bronner, discuss the data behind their 2020 election coverage. You can view the Washington Post’s Election website here. Click here to register!
On Tuesday, October 27, Stefanie Pousoulides (current Investigations Editor and senior Chronicle staffer) will sit down with Seyward Darby to discuss her new book, Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism. Darby served as editor of The Chronicle and graduated from Duke in 2007, now serving as the editor of … Continued
How does ABC News prepare to cover one of the most important nights of the year? Join us as we talk to ABC News Special Events Producer, David Reiter ’93, about how they prepare for election night programming. He’ll also discuss issues particular to this year, such as how to deal with misinformation, vote integrity … Continued
Eric Deggans, author of Race-Baiter, is joining Duke’s Anti-Racism Book Club to discuss his book and foster discussions surrounding racism in politics and the media. The event will take place over Zoom this Sunday, November 1st, at 2:30 PM before an in-depth book discussion at 3:00 PM. This event is a great way to join … Continued
The Sanford School of Public Policy invites you to join Mac McCorkle and Deondra Rose of Polis: Duke's Center for Politics on November 4, the day after the election, to discuss what happened and what comes next with Duke experts in the fields of constitutional and election law, political science, media and from a comparative … Continued
On November 17, Ben Cohen, class of 2010 and former sports editor for The Chronicle, will be interviewed by current senior Derek Saul (sports editor 2019-20), to discuss his book The Hot Hand: The Mystery and Science of Streaks. Cohen is a sports reporter for The Wall Street Journal. You can click here to … Continued
David Schanzer, director of Duke's Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security, will join extremism experts Amarnath Amarasingam & Mia Bloom to discuss QAnon: the radicalization of its followers, the threat it poses to national security, and what can be done to control it. Please click here to register! Amarnath Amarasingam is an Assistant Professor … Continued
DeWitt Wallace Center Professor and Staff Writer for The Atlantic, David Graham '09, will join New York Magazine's Senior Photo Editor, Maya Robinson '11, to kick off Duke Career Center’s Tell Me More series with a special DEMAN inspired-episode. Robinson and Graham will take us behind the scenes of the creative process of magazine cover … Continued
When North Carolina A&T student journalists got fed up with local news outlets linking their campus to unrelated crime scenes, they documented the slights. Editor-in-chief Alexis Wray worked hard to show editors what they did. Some changed but this work is far from done. Despite decades of such efforts, Black journalists are still pushing newsrooms … Continued