Grand Challenges Information Symposium Panel: What News? The State of Journalism in North Dakota and Beyond

Location

Memorial Union Lecture Bowl

Event Website

http://www.undwritersconference.org

Start Date

21-3-2018 11:00 AM

End Date

21-3-2018 12:00 PM

Description

In this Grand Challenges Information Symposium Panel from Wednesday, March 21, 2018, as part of the 49th Annual UND Writers Conference: “Truth & Lies,” Mike Jacobs, former editor and publisher of the Grand Forks Herald, Mark Trahant, UND Communications professor and independent journalist, Lorenzo Serna, a UND alumni and co-creator of Unicorn Riot, a Twin Cities-based media platform that produces live media, video, podcasts and reportage, and Jim Fuglie, former journalist, political activist and proprietor of The Prairie Blog, participate in a panel. The panelists discuss fake news, how the news industry is evolving, how difficult issues like the NODAPL pipeline protest and government regulation of the oil industry get covered in North Dakota, and more. The panelists also respond to audience questions.

Moderated by Chuck Haga, Department of Communications, retired journalist.

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Grand Challenges Information Symposium Panel: What News? The State of Journalism in North Dakota and Beyond

Memorial Union Lecture Bowl

In this Grand Challenges Information Symposium Panel from Wednesday, March 21, 2018, as part of the 49th Annual UND Writers Conference: “Truth & Lies,” Mike Jacobs, former editor and publisher of the Grand Forks Herald, Mark Trahant, UND Communications professor and independent journalist, Lorenzo Serna, a UND alumni and co-creator of Unicorn Riot, a Twin Cities-based media platform that produces live media, video, podcasts and reportage, and Jim Fuglie, former journalist, political activist and proprietor of The Prairie Blog, participate in a panel. The panelists discuss fake news, how the news industry is evolving, how difficult issues like the NODAPL pipeline protest and government regulation of the oil industry get covered in North Dakota, and more. The panelists also respond to audience questions.

Moderated by Chuck Haga, Department of Communications, retired journalist.

https://commons.und.edu/writers-conference/2018/day1/3