Terence Samuel
Vice President and Executive Editor for National Public Radio (NPR) News

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Seminar Series
News Deserts & Disinformation: How the Crisis in Local News is Destabilizing Global Democracy
This seminar will explore the ramifications of the generational demise of local and regional news outlets across the US and internationally, and how the resulting decline in local news coverage, particularly government and political news, has led to a deterioration in the quality of citizenship and destabilized important democratic institutions across the board.

 We will examine how the disappearance of local news has accelerated the spread of disinformation, heightened political partisanship, and amplified cultural divisions across the globe. We will engage stakeholders who are trying to revive a local news ethos and those fighting back against the flood of disinformation and misinformation. The core mission of the seminar will be to seek out solutions to the crisis at hand.

Dates & Times (EST)

  1. February 8 | 4PM- Local News: Deserts, Oases and Solutions (featuring special guest Sarabeth Berman, CEO of the American Journalism Project)
  2. February 22 | 4 PM- Disinformation and the Demise of Democracy
  3. March 22 | 4PM-How Journalism Can Save Itself & Democracy
  4. April 4 | 4PM- Career Conversation

About Terence Samuel

Terence Samuel is Vice President and Executive Editor at NPR, where he oversees all newsgathering for the broadcast network. He is the author of the 2010 book The Upper House: A Journey Behind the Closed Doors of the United States Senate.

He is a former Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University, Washington Politics Editor at the Washington Post and a managing editor at National Journal. Samuel began his career as a writing fellow at the Village Voice and was a reporter as the Roanoke Times, a national correspondent at both the Philadelphia Inquirer and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and chief congressional correspondent at U.S. News & World Report.

He was a director of editorial programming for AOL Black Voices before joining the Washington Post Company in 2007 to help launch TheRoot.com. He wrote a politics column for the American Prospect for six years and his work is featured in Best American Political Writing of 2009.

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