Free Public Event: Cultivating New Voices

On July 11, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University invites you to join with award winning and professional journalists and scholars to discuss challenges and possible solutions for reporting international stories to U.S. and Global audiences in a time of shrinking news budgets.  Inspired by Berkman Fellow Persephone Miel, whose work focused on how compelling narrative and context for international stories could make unfamiliar international news more accessible to American and global audiences, this event will bring together Fatima Tlisova (Voice of America), Pulitzer Prize winner Dele Olojede, Ethan Zuckerman (Berkman Center/Global Voices), Colin Maclay (Berkman Center), Ivan Sigal (Global Voices), Jon Sawyer (Pulitzer Center) and the Miel family for a discussion and reflection on Persephone’s work and the journalistic values she championed. We hope to see anyone with an interest in this subject there for what promises to be a fascinating symposium.

This free event is open to the public and will take place on July 11 at 5 p.m. in the Austin East Classroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School.  RSVP here by July 8 to join this distinguished group tackling the complexities of this issue in a time of great global change and incredible ripeness for news reporting.

Timothy Lamoureux is a 2L at Harvard Law School and believes this will be a great event.