Session of the ongoing Journalism Speakers Forum featuring Ben Garvin.

Annual board meeting of Bellisario College Advertising/Public Relations Alumni Network Board.

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Dr. Suzannah Evans Comfort (Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 2016) is an assistant professor in the Media School at Indiana University. Her research focuses on environmental communication with a particular emphasis on news coverage of climate change as well as communicative tactics by environmental NGOs. Her work has been published in numerous journals, including Journalism, Science Communication, and Environmental Communication. Prior to earning her Ph.D., Dr. Comfort worked as the editorial director at Oceana, the world’s largest environmental organization dedicated to ocean conservation. There, she published the book The Perfect Protein: The Fish Lover’s Guide to Saving the Oceans and Feeding the World with Oceana CEO Andy Sharpless.

At IU, Dr. Comfort teaches courses related to journalism practice, media literacy, and environmental and science communication.

In an age of globalization, centralized power, economic inequality, deep demographic shifts, political polarization, pandemics and climate change, and radical disruption in the media and information environments, we face these converging trends in a constitutional democracy that feels to many increasingly unresponsive, nonadaptive, and even antiquated. Part of a virtual series of events presented by The McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State.

The fifth annual Arthur W. Page Center Awards will honor Dr. Anthony Fauci, NIAID director; Judy Woodruff, anchor and managing editor of PBS Newshour; Eugene Robinson, Washington Post columnist and editor; and Bill Heyman, CEO of Heyman Associates. The renowned communicators will receive a Larry Foster Award for Integrity in Public Communication and participate in a Q&A session at this free, virtual awards event. Open to the public.

Session of the ongoing Journalism Speakers Forum featuring photojournalist Ariel Cobbert.

From the United States and Britain to continental Europe and beyond, liberal democracy is under siege, while authoritarianism is on the rise. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist Anne Applebaum chronicles this trend in her book "Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism" and will outline some of the book’s main themes in this presentation. Part of a virtual series of events presented by The McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State.

Session of the ongoing Journalism Speakers Forum featuring interactive journalist Andrew McGill ('10).

Session of the ongoing Journalism Speakers Forum featuring alumnus Daniel Victor of The New York Times.