News Media in a Post-Fact World

The term "fake news" has picked up steam in 2017, but attacks on the credibility of media institutions are not new. Join Israel Bayer, executive director of Street Roots; Kimberly Wilson, communications director at Meyer Memorial Trust; and moderator Ben DeJarnette from the University of Oregon's Agora Journalism Center, to examine how we got here, the challenges confronting today's media organizations, and the opportunities going forward. 


Speakers: 
Israel Bayer, executive director of Street Roots, has been working in the street newspaper movement for more than a decade. He has worked for Real Change, a street newspaper in Seattle, Washington and for the North American Street Newspaper Association. Israel is also a journalist, poet, photographer and painter.





Kimberly Wilson, Director of Communication at Meyer Memorial Trust, first worked as a general assignment reporter and investigative journalist at The Oregonian and The Baltimore Sun and in various reporting roles at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Associated Press. 
 

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Moderator: 
Ben DeJarnette is a project and product manager at the University of Oregon's Agora Journalism Center, and co-author of the new book Reimagining Journalism in a Post-Truth World: How Late-Night Comedians, Internet Trolls, and Savvy Reporters Are Transforming News. Ben is also a freelance journalist and holds a masters in media studies from the University of Oregon.