Journalism Under Siege: A Free Online Course from Stanford Explores the Imperiled Freedom of the Press

This past fall, Stan­ford Con­tin­u­ing Stud­ies and the John S. Knight Jour­nal­ism Fel­low­ships teamed up to offer an impor­tant course on the chal­lenges fac­ing jour­nal­ism and the free­dom of the press. Called Jour­nal­ism Under Siege? Truth and Trust in a Time of Tur­moil, the five-week course fea­tured 28 jour­nal­ists and media experts, all offer­ing insights on the emerg­ing chal­lenges fac­ing the media across the Unit­ed States and the wider world. The lectures/presentations are now all online. Find them below, along with the list of guest speak­ers, which includes Alex Sta­mos who blew the whis­tle on Rus­si­a’s manip­u­la­tion of the Face­book plat­form dur­ing the 2016 elec­tion. Jour­nal­ism Under Siege will be added to our col­lec­tion, 1,700 Free Online Cours­es from Top Uni­ver­si­ties.

Week­ly Ses­sions:

• Week 1 –  First Draft of His­to­ry: How a Free Press Pro­tects Free­dom; Part One, Part Two
• Week 2 –  Pow­er to the Peo­ple: Hold­ing the Pow­er­ful Account­able; Part One, Part Two
• Week 3 – Pick­ing Sides? How Jour­nal­ists Cov­er Bias, Intol­er­ance and Injus­tice; Part One, Part Two
• Week 4 – The Last Stand of Local News; Part One, Part Two
• Week 5 – The Mis­in­for­ma­tion Soci­ety; Part One, Part Two

Guest Speak­ers:

• Han­nah Allam, nation­al reporter, Buz­zFeed News
• Roman Anin, inves­ti­ga­tions edi­tor, Novaya Gaze­ta, Moscow
• Hugo Bal­ta, pres­i­dent, Nation­al Asso­ci­a­tion of His­pan­ic Jour­nal­ists
• Sal­ly Buzbee, exec­u­tive edi­tor, Asso­ci­at­ed Press (AP)
• Neil Chase, exec­u­tive edi­tor, San Jose Mer­cury News
• Audrey Coop­er, edi­tor-in-chief, San Fran­cis­co Chron­i­cle
• Jenée Desmond-Har­ris, staff edi­tor, NYT Opin­ion, New York Times
• Jiquan­da John­son, founder and pub­lish­er, Flint Beat
• Joel Konopo, man­ag­ing part­ner, INK Cen­tre for Inves­tiga­tive Jour­nal­ism, Gaborone, Botswana
• Richard Lui, anchor, MSNBC and NBC News
• Geral­dine Mori­ba, for­mer vice pres­i­dent for diver­si­ty and inclu­sion, CNN
• Bryan Pol­lard, pres­i­dent, Native Amer­i­can Jour­nal­ists Asso­ci­a­tion
• Cecile Prieur, deputy edi­tor, Le Monde, Paris
• Joel Simon, exec­u­tive direc­tor, Com­mit­tee to Pro­tect Jour­nal­ists
• Alex Sta­mos, for­mer Face­book chief secu­ri­ty offi­cer
• Mari­na Walk­er Gue­vara, win­ner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Explana­to­ry Report­ing for coor­di­nat­ing the Pana­ma Papers inves­ti­ga­tion

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