Journalism and Social Justice
Channel: Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: 2013-11-13

Nicholas Lemann
Henry R. Luce Professor and Dean, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University

For generations, journalists have used gritty, realistic methods to uncover and describe social conditions.  Their stories helped Americans as disparate as abolitionists and welfare reformers to craft new notions of social justice and to get their ideas written into law.  Can a journalism of social justice survive in our current media environment?  If so, what direction might it take?

This lecture is given in conjunction with the donation of the Leon Dash Papers to the University Archives.  Leon Dash won the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for his Washington Post series, "Rosa Lee: Poverty and Survival in Washington."  He holds both a Center for Advanced Study Professorship and a Swanlund Chair.

Hosted by: University Library

In conjunction with:  African American Studies and Research Program, Center for African Studies, Department of History, Department of Journalism, Department of Sociology, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Institute of Communications Research, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, School of Social Work, University Press

Thursday, October 27, 2005
7:30 pm
Room 100, Gregory Hall
810 South Wright Street
Urbana