Times-Picayune reporter to visit UMaine, join #MeToo panel discussion
The University of Maine Department of Communication and Journalism will welcome Brett Anderson, reporter with the New Orleans Times-Picayune, as visiting journalist April 12–13 as part of the Alan Miller Fund for Excellence in Communication and Journalism.
In addition to meeting students and visiting journalism classes, Anderson will join a panel discussion, “The Media and #MeToo,” at 1 p.m. April 12 in the Bangor Room of the Memorial Union.
UMaine panelists will include Amy Blackstone, a professor in the Department of Sociology and the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, and Judith Rosenbaum, an assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism. Susan Gardner, director of the Rising Tide Center, will moderate the discussion.
Anderson was the first to report on the sexual harassment occurring in the business empire of celebrity chef John Besh. His article resulting from an eight-month investigation is online.