#SUSI2015 Chat: what role should journalists play in social movements?

Posted on by Jessica Partnow
(Photo courtesy of FIUTS)
(Photo courtesy of FIUTS)

Tune into the twitter chat (or follow #susi2015) Thursday November 5th at 8:00AM Pacific Time / 8:30PM India Standard Time!

What role can journalists play in social movements? Do they have a responsibility to get involved? To stay independent? What are similarities and differences in media coverage of the women’s movement in South Asia, and that of the Black Lives Matter movement in the US?

Join award winning reporters from the Seattle Globalist and Alumni of the Seattle-based Study of the U.S. Institutes (SUSI) on Journalism and New Media for a timely discussion on a current journalism issue.


 

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Jessica Partnow

Jessica was the founding executive director of The Seattle Globalist. She is an international radio journalist whose work has been broadcast by dozens of public radio stations, networks and programs. She has received two Edward R. Murrow Awards, regionally for her radio series Life on the Duwamish and nationally for Generation Putin, an hour-long public radio special on young people and political change in the former Soviet Union. She won a 2015 Gracie Award for her radio series on humanitarian drug trafficking. Jessica teaches journalism at the University of Washington.