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News industry leaders Gerard Baker, editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal; Sally Buzbee, executive editor of the Associated Press; Alan Murray, chief content officer of Time Inc.; and Josh Tyrangiel, executive vice president of Vice News will be the featured speakers at the fourth annual McGraw Symposium.
The Symposium, sponsored by the McGraw Center for Business Journalism at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, will take place on Oct. 12, 2017 at 7 pm at the J-School in conjunction with the annual conference of the Society for Business Editors and Writers.
The Symposium comes at a tumultuous time for the news media, which has rarely faced such an array of challenges. Allegations of “fake news” and media bias, attacks on the freedom of the press – and sometimes, on journalists themselves – have been a feature of the most acrimonious relationship between news organizations and the Administration in a generation.
Trust in the media is increasingly split along partisan lines, spurring heated debate about the proper role of journalism. At the same time, the pace of digital change continues to intensify, as newsrooms double down on video and experiment with new tools such as bots and virtual reality while dealing with continuing financial pressures.
Those are among the topics the industry leaders will cover at the Symposium. We’ll discuss how they’re tackling these challenges, transforming their newsrooms and, perhaps most important, where they see opportunities ahead despite the media turmoil.
Tickets for the McGraw Symposium can be purchased through the SABEW site on Sched.org. A reception will precede it at 6 pm.
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