National Security and Journalism in a World of Alternative Facts
1.5 Ethics Credits
Join the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania for an expert panel addressing the complex ethical and legal landscape of national security reporting, including key takeaways from the latest volume in CERL’s Oxford University Press series, National Security, Journalism, and Law in an Age of Information Warfare.
National security journalists today face extraordinary challenges. Efforts to safeguard responsible media practices in sensitive areas having to do with war, intelligence exploitation, international relations, epidemiological threats, advanced technologies, and more while exercising robust freedom of the press has always been challenging. Covering these topics in the face of expansive presidential authority renders the challenges more difficult and the stakes higher than ever. Journalism in the national security arena is made all the more complicated by the acceleration of misinformation and disinformation, along with an extreme polarization in U.S. politics and a politicization of the news cycle that makes objective reporting frequently unrewarding.
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