This past fall, Stanford Continuing Studies and the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships teamed up to offer an important course on the challenges facing journalism and the freedom of the press. Called Journalism Under Siege? Truth and Trust in a Time of Turmoil, the five-week course featured 28 journalists and media experts, all offering insights on the emerging challenges facing the media across the United States and the wider world. The lectures/presentations are now all online. Find them below, along with the list of guest speakers, which includes Alex Stamos who blew the whistle on Russia’s manipulation of the Facebook platform during the 2016 election. Journalism Under Siege will be added to our collection, 1,700 Free Online Courses from Top Universities.
Weekly Sessions:
- Week 1 – First Draft of History: How a Free Press Protects Freedom; Part One, Part Two
- Week 2 – Power to the People: Holding the Powerful Accountable; Part One, Part Two
- Week 3 – Picking Sides? How Journalists Cover Bias, Intolerance and Injustice; Part One, Part Two
- Week 4 – The Last Stand of Local News; Part One, Part Two
- Week 5 – The Misinformation Society; Part One, Part Two
Guest Speakers:
- Hannah Allam, national reporter, BuzzFeed News
- Roman Anin, investigations editor, Novaya Gazeta, Moscow
- Hugo Balta, president, National Association of Hispanic Journalists
- Sally Buzbee, executive editor, Associated Press (AP)
- Neil Chase, executive editor, San Jose Mercury News
- Audrey Cooper, editor-in-chief, San Francisco Chronicle
- Jenée Desmond-Harris, staff editor, NYT Opinion, New York Times
- Jiquanda Johnson, founder and publisher, Flint Beat
- Joel Konopo, managing partner, INK Centre for Investigative Journalism, Gaborone, Botswana
- Richard Lui, anchor, MSNBC and NBC News
- Geraldine Moriba, former vice president for diversity and inclusion, CNN
- Bryan Pollard, president, Native American Journalists Association
- Cecile Prieur, deputy editor, Le Monde, Paris
- Joel Simon, executive director, Committee to Protect Journalists
- Alex Stamos, former Facebook chief security officer
- Marina Walker Guevara, winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for coordinating the Panama Papers investigation
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It’s been a very bad two and a half years for “journalists.” The major media outlets have severely eroded the trust of the public with their absolute lack of journalism and poor research habits. They need to take a hard look in the mirror and decide to become journalists again instead of propagandists. I doubt this course would do them any good. They need to the fundamentals of journalism before they completely and irredeemably discredit themselves.
Thank you for all
Thank you so much I really appreciate all the information you gave I have learned too many things about journalism since it is my inspiration and passion for many years ago and now I’m sure that I can do it and work to make my dream come true thank you so much
I want to register a course
Hi I am keen to enrol into this journalism course
Hi
I would like to enroll on the course how do I go about applying. I have been trying to get an institution to enroll with in the Northern Cape South Africa there isn’t an institution with journalism as a course to study.
thanking you in advance
Michael Komane