Confronting Racism as Journalists

Starts: February 8, 2018 at 4:30 pm
Ends: February 8, 2018 at 6:30 pm

The UConn Journalism program will host a timely panel discussion about what responsibility the news media has to confront racism. When should journalists call something racist?

The panelists are:

Helen Ubinas, an award-winning columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News and philly.com. She previously wrote for Hartford Courant as the newspaper’s first Latina news columnist.

Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, an essayist for NBC Asian America and contributor to PRI Public Radio International. She is a well-traveled speaker and educator on issues of diversity, race, culture and the arts.

Kevin B Blackistone, a columnist for the Washington Post, commentator on ESPN’s ‘Around the Horn,’ and a professor of the practice at Philip Merrill College of Journalism – UMD

The moderator is Marie Shanahan, UConn assistant professor of journalism.

The event is free and open to the public. It will be held in the Wilbur Cross building, North Reading Room starting at 5 p.m. Directions: https://maps.uconn.edu/m/info/WCB

A coffee reception with the panelists will precede the event at 4:30 p.m.

For those unable to make it in person, the discussion will also be livestreamed on UConn Journalism‘s Facebook page.