Schedule on your Program Guide or watch online anytime at booktv. Org. Margaret coker is a prizewinning investigative journalist who over 19 19 yes covered stories2 from 32 countries on four continents. As Turkey Bureau chief for the wall street journal, she contributed to a 2016 series that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting. She lives right here in savannah, lucky us, where she is editor in chief of the current, a nonprofit News Organization that provides original indepth watchdog journalism affecting savannah and coastal georgia. She is passionate about reviving an investigative news culture here in coastal georgia, and mentoring a new generation of journalists in this region. I ask you now to give a warm welcome to margaret coker. [applause] hi everyone. Welcome to savannah for everyone who is visiting and thank you all who are my neighbors for showing up before cocktail hour, which is what savannahs actually quite famous for. I appreciate that. Very l
Chicago Medical Center where he serves the same Southside Community where he was raised. Previously has served as 82010 and 2011 white house fellow and a special assistant to a secretary. He worked on Affordable Care act regulation and the health and Human Services action plan for reducing ethnic and Racial Health disparities. Emergency is his first book and he has garnered high praise for his poignant portrayal of humanity in crisis and underscoring the critical obligation we all have to care for each other. Natalie moore is an awardwinning journalist based in chicago whose reporting tackles rates, housing, economic development, food and, violence, segregation, and inequality. Her latest book is a play about abortion published by haymarket books. Her book the southside, a portrait of chicago and american segregation. Received the Chicago Books award for nonfiction and was buzzfeeds best Nonfiction Book of 2016. She contributed to southside, a collection of stories about the criminal J
Now not so Young Americans, less Young Americans that you have written about. I think i would be helpful place to begin. Guest yes. The term, first of all the dumbest generation i o steal frm philip roth. Its in one of his novels and hes referring to young people and so i took that in 2008 to apply to the millennials. Millennials i i roughly early 80s, born in the early 80s up until the late 90s, to 2000. They were, back in those heady years of web 2. 0, the first decade of the third millennium, web 2. 0 was giving people more activity online. They would just be passive consumers. They could kind of talk back to social media group, youtubers original model was broadcast yourself. You could write customer reviews it was a more interactive medium and the millennials were said to lead the way. These 1 15yearolds in their bedrooms in 2005, they were the early adopters. They were the digital natives. They had grown up with the tools and they were ready to innovate and improvise with these n
Free the press. Brian journalism career has ranged across rod caston on line media and stretches back nearly 40 years. He currently serves as a senior White House Correspondent for playboy. He also hosts a podcast just ask a question which features conversations about politics Current Events and pop culture. During the term presidency he became a story on occasion or two with confrontational exchanges with administration officials. Among them press secretary Sara Huckabee sanders and white house aide Sebastian Court costs. They tried to suspend brians press pass in 2019 before an Appeals Court panel chided the white house for having violated his due process rights. Read the press provides a history the dramatic change in media and with tales of his own experience. He describes the disappearance of news organizations the spread of bias in news reporting and the tensions between the government and the state and offers at the end some ideas for reviving a vibrant and free press in this co
We have lisa forbes joining us tonight and if youre here for the event please come over and join us. We have some comfy couches over your in the lounge. If youre not here for the event no problem, just be mindful of the people around you that are here for the event. Ifyou want to have a conversation we have other tables in the back. We have patio seating. But we do want to invite you to join this event because its going to be amazing. So a little bit about book bar. We are a nineyearold bookstore wine bar here in the art district of northwest dunbar and we actually just got through a pandemic and bought another bookstore, a childrens bookstore down in south denver, colorado and mississippi. When we bought app store we became a Public Benefit organization which means our purpose is to give back to the community so 10 percent of all our book sales from here and our other bookstore go to our Nonprofit Organization called book gives and it exists to give books out to the community. You can