Event Details:
Nearly 40% of U.S. adults under 30 regularly get news from online news personalities and content creators, who draw millions more followers, readers and listeners than legacy media. How are these news ecosystems complementary or competitive? What can each learn from the other? What does it mean for U.S. democracy when there are so many news outlets to choose from? We hear from three of these creators:
Peter Hamby – Host of Snapchat’s Good Luck America and founding partner of Puck News.
Matt Kiser – Founder of newsletter, WTF Just Happened Today? – today's essential guide to the daily shock and awe in national politics.
Kyla Scanlon – Popular online content creator and economics educator, author of In this Economy: How Money & Markets Really Work
Moderator Janine Zacharia, a former journalist for the Washington Post, Bloomberg, Reuters and other news outlets, is an award-winning instructor at Stanford where she teaches news reporting and writing fundamentals and foreign correspondence. She is the author of newsroom playbooks including How to Report Responsibly on Hacks and Disinformation and Polarization and the Press: 12 Ways to Restore Respect for Your Reporting.