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
The environmental justice movement has been foundational in the longstanding fight for equity and equality in the U.S. for decades. Today, environmental injustice continues to be a topic of growing importance and salience for people both internationally and domestically. In an attempt to provide a wide-reaching introduction to the multi-faceted environmental justice movement, Duke University … Continued
In an era of increasing social isolation, platforms like Facebook and Twitter are among the most important tools we have to understand each other. We use social media as a mirror to decipher our place in society but it functions more like a prism that distorts our identities, empowers status-seeking extremists, and renders moderates all … Continued
On Thursday, March 25th, we are excited to welcome Mr. Josh Partlow, an investigative journalist with the Washington Post and a Duke alumnus. This event will be held at 5:00 p.m. over Zoom. Mr. Partlow will discuss integrity in journalism, with particular attention to the themes of accuracy vs bias in reporting and freedom of speech. There will be … Continued