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Alex Burns is the head of news at Politico. He has covered politics and power for more than a decade, including as national political correspondent for The New York Times during the 2020 presidential election.
A graduate of Harvard College, he edited the Harvard Political Review. In 2022, he co-authored the bestselling book This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for America’s Future. You can find a review of the book in this link. Burns writes Politico’s Tomorrow column, which explores the future of politics and policy debates that cross national lines.
Burns will discuss the challenges journalists face when covering this year’s US presidential election and the way they can attract the audience’s attention to a contest between two candidates who already competed for the presidency in 2020. If you are interested in this topic, we recommend this piece by Gretel Kahn on how US Latinos are being targeted with misinformation and how fact-checkers are trying to help them.
Part of the Reuters Institute Global Journalism Seminars.
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Join the Atlantic Council, in partnership with CNN, on Wednesday, June 26, 2024, at 4:00 p.m. ET, for a conversation on reporters at risk in Latin America and the Caribbean. A 5:00 p.m. ET reception will follow.
Threats to press freedom across Latin America and the Caribbean are on the rise. Mexico remains one of the deadliest countries for journalists outside of active war zones, with more than 150 reporters killed and dozens missing over the past two decades. Authoritarian governments in Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, ranked among the world’s worst for press freedom, target journalists and censor newsrooms to stifle dissent. Reporters in Haiti face gang violence amid turmoil. Democratic values and institutions are under attack, undermining journalists’ work and well-being.
Reporters covering organized crime, corruption, and conflict face significant personal and professional risks to deliver the news and report the truth. Yet, despite these obstacles, journalists persist. Why do they continue? What makes reporting worth the danger? How do they maintain courage through adversity, and how can we instill resilience in future generations of reporters?
This event is part of the Reporters at Risk series within the Adrienne Arsht National Security Resilience Initiative. The series convenes leading journalists and media professionals for discussions about the challenges that journalists face in an increasingly fraught global media landscape and the importance of building reporter resilience. It also serves to honor reporters at risk around the world, including Wall Street Journal correspondent Evan Gershkovich.
The program is open to the public and press and will take place in-person at the Atlantic Council (1030 15th St NW 12th floor, Washington, DC 20005) and via livestream on Atlantic Council social media.
ICFJ will host three webinars about road safety prevention in three different languages –English, Spanish, and Portuguese, with one webinar per language from June through August 2024. Please check this link to register for the webinar.
- Road Safety Webinar (English) – Tuesday, July 9th, 2024.
- Road Safety Webinar (Spanish) – Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024.
- Road Safety Webinar (Portuguese) – Tuesday, August 6th, 2024.
After the webinar series, ICFJ will open applications for applicants to submit a story related to road safety. The best story will receive a prize, which will help the winner continue developing their work as a journalist.
For more about the competition click HERE
The International Community of the SPJ will be holding an online get together to just chat and meet each other. There are no official speeches and no agenda other than to try to draw the IC membership a bit closer together.
Join the IC online by clicking HERE.
John Maxwell Hamilton, journalist, author and journalism professor, has agreed to talk about the history of American foreign reporting, local/global story possibilities and his assessment of the current way US media outlets cover international events. We will also get to his book about the cocktail, The French 75.
Register for this event sponsored by the SPJ International Community HERE.
John Maxwell Hamilton, a longtime journalist, author and public servant, is the Hopkins P. Breazeale Professor of Journalism at the LSU Manship School of Mass Communication and a global scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.
As a journalist, Hamilton reported for the Milwaukee Journal, The Christian Science Monitor and ABC radio. He was a longtime commentator for MarketPlace, broadcast nationally by Public Radio International. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Foreign Affairs and The Nation, among other publications.
In the course of his career, Hamilton has had assignments in more than 50 countries. In addition to covering foreign news, Hamilton has written extensively on foreign correspondence and sought to improve it. In the mid-1980s, he created and directed a Society of Professional Journalists project to develop techniques for local reporting of foreign news, especially on relations with developing countries. He later contributed to a similar project for the American Society of Newspaper Editors. In the 1980s, National Journal said Hamilton has shaped public opinion about the complexity of U. S.-Third World relations “more than any other single journalist.”
Hamilton is author or co-author of seven books and editor of many more. “Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting.” won the Goldsmith Prize from the Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy and the Book of the Year Award from the American Journalism Historians Association/
Join the chapter and other journalists Friday, Oct. 4, at 5 p.m. to meet with 10 foreign journalists visiting the United States under the auspices of the World Press Institute. The gathering will be in the Cosgrove Lounge on the 14th floor of the National Press Club in downtown Washington (529 14th Street NW, 20045 near Metro Center station).
The DC chapter will provide some light snacks. Beverages will be available from a server, but you’ll pay for your own order.
The visiting journalists are coming from Brazil, Bulgaria, Finland, India, Italy, Kosovo, Nigeria, Peru, South Africa and Ukraine.
The World Press Institute, founded in 1961, has provided regular opportunities for journalists from around the world to visit the U.S. and compare notes with their American counterparts.
Please sign up for the event here.
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Join Freedom House for the launch of Freedom on the Net 2024: The Struggle for Trust Online. Following a presentation on key findings from the 2024 report, experts will discuss global trends, country-specific developments, and best practices for how to protect internet freedom.
SPJ INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY GLOBAL FACT-CHECKING WEBINAR: While all good journalists know to fact-check their stories, independent fact-checking organizations have sprung up around the world to address the increased misinformation being promoted in social media and by many political figures. Join the IC for its “Fact-Checking — A Global Update” webinar at 7 p.m. EST Tuesday. Speakers will include Angie Holan, director of the International Fact Checking Network, and Dulamkhorloo Baatar, founder of NEST Mongolia, the Mongolian affiliate with the IFCN. Retired journalist and educator Jeff South will moderate the session. Registration is required.