Hutchinson Center hosts free lecture on role of news media in public life
The role of the news media in public life will be the focus of a July 10 lecture at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center by Josh Roiland, an assistant professor of journalism at UMaine.
The 7 p.m. lecture, “Keep Calm and Scroll On: Understanding the News Media’s Influence in Turbulent Times,” is free and open to the public.
In his lecture, Roiland, who also teaches in UMaine’s Honors College, will examine the current media landscape, historical journalistic precedents and the ways the public uses news. Topics of interest will include: accusations about “fake news” and the promotion of “alternative facts,” with an eternal question, “Does the news media still matter?”
Roiland teaches and writes about journalism and democracy, and literacy journalism. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, Longreads, Nieman Storyboard and Literary Journalism Studies.
For more information or to request an accommodation, contact Diana McSorley at 338.8093, diana.mcsorley@maine.edu.