Fake News: Is it Real? Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Panel Discussion

Journalism is critical to a healthy democracy. For citizens to make informed decisions they need reliable news and information. Journalism plays an integral role in this process by improving knowledge, helping build consensus, and holding government officials accountable. But is traditional journalism still relevant in today’s era of “Fake News”?

Join Connecticut Humanities, Capital Community College, and Middlesex Community College for a moderated panel discussion on April 30, 2018 about this important topic.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists will meet with students and talk about how journalism has changed over the past few years and why they think people have become distrustful of media. The discussion will also explore how people can become better consumers of information.

Participating journalists will include University of Connecticut Prof. Mike Stanton (Providence Journal, Investigative Reporting, 1994), UCONN Prof. Steven Smith (Rocky Mountain News, Breaking News Photography, 2003), and Mike McIntire (New York Times, International Reporting, 2017).

The panel will be moderated by Larry Rifkin, former chief programming executive for Connecticut Public Television and longtime radio host on 1320 WATR in Waterbury.

The event will take place in Capital Communuty College's Centinel Hill Hall Auditorium.

This program is part of the Democracy and the Informed Citizen initiative, administered by the Federation of State Humanities Councils. The initiative seeks to deepen the public’s knowledge and appreciation of the vital connections between democracy, the humanities, journalism, and an informed citizenry.

We thank The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for their generous support of this initiative and the Pulitzer Prizes for their partnership.