Keynote Speaker - Kara Swisher
Center director Kathleen Bartzen Culver sits down with leading tech journalist Kara Swisher for a conversation entitled, “The View from Silicon Valley: Gender, Journalism & Tech.”
Session 1 – The Power of Portrayals in a Wired World
Tracy Lucht (Iowa State University) moderates a discussion about media representations and gender with Barbara Glickstein (Center for Health Policy and Media Engagement at George Washington University School of Nursing), Kem Knapp Sawyer (Pulitzer Center), Linda Steiner (University of Maryland) and Negassi Tesfamichael (The Cap Times).
Session 2 – Gender at Work: Overcoming Bias in the Newsroom
Lindsay Palmer (UW-Madison) moderates this discussion on discrimination in the newsroom and field with Michelle Ferrier (Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University, TrollBusters.com), Christina Kahrl (ESPN) and Jon Sawyer (Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting).
Session 3 – Real World Solutions Moving Forward with Equity & Integrity
Jill Geisler (Loyola University Chicago and Freedom Forum Institute) moderates a panel on increasing workplace integrity with Sharif Durhams (CNN), Lindsay Palmer (UW–Madison), Susan Ramsett (KWQC TV-6) and Traci Schweikert (POLITICO).
Conference Sponsors
