Episode Details
Original tape date: March 26, 2017.
First aired: March 26, 2017.
On this month’s Study With the Best, we explore the press under duress. With legitimate journalism in the crosshairs of even the current President of the United States, how is CUNY responding? We’ll see how the Graduate School of Journalism is using President Trump’s claim that ‘fake news is the enemy of the American people’ as a call to arms; look deeply into news algorithms with Queens College professor Douglas Rushkoff, who tells us how these tools can lead us into a self-perpetuating view of the world; take a look back in American history at other moments when the press came under attack with Lehman College’s Andrew Robertson; and hear Jeff Jarvis describe the problems with fake news and social media, and what can be done to realign journalism.
Guest List
Prof. Sarah Bartlett Dean, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism
Teddy Grant CUNY Graduate School of Journalism
Jeff Jarvis Blogger, Buzzmachine.com, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism
Andrew L. Mendelson Associate Dean, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism
Liz Ramanand CUNY Graduate School of Journalism
Andrew Robertson CUNY Graduate Center
Douglas Rushkoff Professor, Queens College
Study With the Best is CUNY TV’s show about CUNY. This magazine show focuses on the best and brightest professors, alumni, and programs that CUNY has to offer students, delving into a CUNY system that contains over 500,000 students and a wide and divergent alumni reach. The series highlights the rewards of a college education and the excitement of student life around the system’ 24 institutions.
The host of Study With the Best is Tinabeth Pina.