Lecture Info:
Have we lost our commonly held point of departure for thinking about current events, science, health care, and culture? As a country we do not agree on the fundamentals so often -- not always -- journalists are under attack even before they embark on their reporting. How can journalists preserve the credibility they have and gain back ground? New York Times International Correspondent Alissa Rubin offers lessons drawn from Bernard Nossiter and recent history.
Speaker Bio:
Alissa Johannsen Rubin has been a foreign correspondent for more than 20 years in the Middle East, Afghanistan, France and the Balkans. For the past 14 years she has worked for The New York Times and before that she worked for the Los Angeles Times. She won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on Afghan women, the Michael Kelly Award for reporting in Afghanistan and Iraq and the 2015 John Chancellor Award. She has a BA in Renaissance Studies from Brown University and an M.A. in European History from Columbia University. She is finishing up a year at Harvard University where she has been a Nieman Fellow.