{"id":302788,"date":"2022-01-11T14:51:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T19:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/?post_type=episode&#038;p=302788"},"modified":"2023-01-11T14:40:47","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T19:40:47","slug":"knight-media-forum-2022","status":"publish","type":"episode","link":"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/events\/knight-media-forum\/knight-media-forum-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Knight Media Forum 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<nav class=\"module--new block--table-of-contents\" data-component=\"tableOfContents\">\n\t<h4 class=\"table-of-contents__title\">Contents<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"wp-block wp-block-list table-of-contents__list\"><li class=\"table-of-contents__item\"><a href=\"#Agenda-Video-Playback\">Agenda + Video Playback <\/a><\/li><li class=\"table-of-contents__item\"><a href=\"#featured-speakers\">Featured Speakers<\/a><\/li><li class=\"table-of-contents__item\"><a href=\"#Speakers\">All Speakers<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav>\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<p>On Feb. 22-24, the 15th Annual Knight Media Forum (KMF), examined current trends impacting our democracy. Top thought leaders in philanthropy, journalism, education, tech, and policy shared their insights and answered your questions about the hot topics across communities and the nation. <\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<p>KMF is the premiere event for leaders across these sectors to put forward new ideas and exchange diverse perspectives.&nbsp;At year 15 and looking forward, Knight Media Forum provides a respected platform to discuss relevant trends affecting American society now and in the future.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Agenda-Video-Playback\">Agenda + Video Playback <\/h2>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Day 1: <strong>Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2 p.m.<strong> <\/strong>ET:  <strong>Welcome<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<ul><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Alberto Ibarg\u00fcen<\/strong>, Knight Foundation<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Lilly Weinberg<\/strong>,&nbsp;Knight Foundation and Knight Media Forum Day 1 Host<\/li>\n<\/div><\/ul>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Welcome - Knight Media Forum 2022 - DAY 1\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/681617000?h=07ffa0f759&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2:30&nbsp;&#8211; 3:15 p.m.&nbsp;ET:&nbsp;&nbsp;Howard University, in conversation with <strong>Alberto Ibarg\u00fcen<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<p><em>How Howard University worked to reframe and elevate the conversation around truth, journalism and clarity.<\/em><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<ul><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Dr.<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Wayne Frederick<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Nikole Hannah-Jones<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Ta-Nehisi Coates<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/div><\/ul>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Howard University, in Conversation with Alberto Ibarg&amp;uuml;en - Knight Media Forum 2022 - DAY 1\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/681685171?h=50776fddad&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3:20 &#8211; 4:20 p.m.&nbsp;ET: &nbsp;<strong>Breakout sessions<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<p><em><strong>Funding local journalism in large cities: Chicago Case Study&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<ul><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Matt Moog<\/strong>, Chicago Public Media<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Maple Walker Lloyd<\/strong>,&nbsp; Block Club Chicago<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Tracy Baim<\/strong>, Chicago Reader<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Andr\u00e9s Torres<\/strong>, Robert R. McCormick Foundation<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Moderator: Jim Brady,&nbsp;<\/strong>Knight Foundation<\/li>\n<\/div><\/ul>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<p><strong><em>Small, rural or midsize communities: Building information access<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<ul><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Mark Trahant<\/strong>, Indian Country Today<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Karen Lambert<\/strong>, The Peyton Anderson Foundation&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Sue Cross<\/strong>, Institute for Nonprofit News<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Host: Raul Moas,&nbsp;<\/strong>Knight Foundation<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Moderator: Charles Thomas<\/strong>, Knight Foundation<\/li>\n<\/div><\/ul>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<p><strong><em>How to partner with television and radio to inform community<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<ul><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Lee Zurik<\/strong>, WVUE-TV<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Ju-Don Marshall<\/strong>, WFAE<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Moderator: Raney Aronson-Rath<\/strong>, Frontline<\/li>\n<\/div><\/ul>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<p><strong><em>COVID coverage: Funders address&nbsp;health&nbsp;misinformation&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<ul><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Rick Weiss<\/strong>, American Association for the Advancement of Science<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Kristen Oliveri<\/strong>, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Rose Hoban,&nbsp;<\/strong>North Carolina Health News&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Moderator: Aimei Yang,&nbsp;<\/strong>USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism<\/li>\n<\/div><\/ul>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<p><strong><em>Addressing disinformation targeted at communities of color<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<ul><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Paul Waters<\/strong>, Democracy Fund<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Mazin Sidahmed,&nbsp;<\/strong>Documented<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Nora Benavidez,&nbsp;<\/strong>Free Press<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Julio Vaqueiro,<\/strong> Noticias Telemundo<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Moderator:&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Brandi Collins-Dexter<\/strong>, Shorenstein Center, Harvard<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Host: <strong>Jai&nbsp;Winston, <\/strong><\/strong>Director\/St. Paul, Knight Foundation<\/li>\n<\/div><\/ul>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<p><strong><em>Who is informing Millennials and Generation Z?&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<ul><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Dave Jorgenson, <\/strong>Video Producer, Editor &amp; Writer, The Washington Post<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Yvonne Leow<\/strong>, Newmark School of Journalism<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Cooper Carragher-Haim<\/strong>, Dwight-Englewood School<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Moderator: Jon Belgrad<\/strong>, Knight Foundation,&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/div><\/ul>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4:24 &#8211; 5:15 p.m.&nbsp;ET: <strong>Diverse decision makers in news: temporary trend or enduring equity?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<p><em>As our communities change, so too should our newsrooms.&nbsp;See who\u2019s managing the change and how they\u2019re building reimagined newsrooms.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<ul><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Kevin Merida,&nbsp;<\/strong>Los Angeles Times<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Versha Sharma,&nbsp;<\/strong>Teen Vogue<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Rashida Jones<em>,&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>MSNBC<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Moderator: Stephanie Mehta,&nbsp;<\/strong>Fast Company<\/li>\n<\/div><\/ul>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Diverse decision makers in news: temporary trend or enduring equity? - Knight Media Forum 2022 - DAY 1\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/681630558?h=cc8a98b26f&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">5:15 &#8211; 5:30 p.m. ET: <strong>Day 1 Closing<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<ul><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Lilly Weinberg, <\/strong>Knight Foundation, and <span style=\"font-size: revert; color: initial; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif;\">Knight Media Forum Day 2 Host<\/span><\/li>\n<\/div><\/ul>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<p><meta charset=\"utf-8\"><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<div style=\"height:32px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Day 2: <strong>Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2022<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2 p.m.&nbsp;ET:&nbsp;<strong>Day 2 Welcome<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<ul><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Kelly Jin,<\/strong>&nbsp;Knight Foundation, and <span style=\"font-size: revert; color: initial; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif;\">Knight Media Forum Day 2 Host<\/span><\/li>\n<\/div><\/ul>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Welcome - Knight Media Forum 2022 - DAY 2\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/681667069?h=204e24bbb0&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2:10 &#8211; 2:50 p.m. ET: Modeling the media organization of the future<\/h4>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<ul><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Jim VandeHei<\/strong>, Axios<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Alberto Ibarg\u00fcen<\/strong>, Knight Foundation<\/li>\n<\/div><\/ul>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Modeling the media organization of the future - Knight Media Forum 2022 - DAY 2\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/681669058?h=4178ba3180&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2:51&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; 3:50 p.m.&nbsp;ET: &nbsp;<strong>New approaches for local journalism<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<ul><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Lauren Gustus,&nbsp;<\/strong>Salt Lake Tribune<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Lauren Williams<\/strong>, Capital B News&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Jay Allred,&nbsp;<\/strong>Richland Source&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Moderator: Jim Brady,&nbsp;<\/strong>Knight Foundation<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li>Note: The document Lauren Gustus mentioned during this is here: https:\/\/kf.org\/3JQBX0I<\/li>\n<\/div><\/ul>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"New approaches for local journalism - Knight Media Forum 2022 - DAY 2\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/681524293?h=74e6b44796&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; 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Anglin,&nbsp;<\/strong>The Cleveland Foundation<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Moderator: Karen Rundlet<\/strong>, Knight Foundation<\/li>\n<\/div><\/ul>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Is collaboration our future? - Knight Media Forum 2022 - DAY 2\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/681591576?h=cafab3f409&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4:37 &#8211; 5:25 p.m. ET: <strong>What is government\u2019s role in supporting the news?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<ul><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Graciela Mochkofsky<\/strong>, Center for Community Media, CUNY<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Julie Sandorf,&nbsp;<\/strong>Revson Foundation<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Steve Waldman,&nbsp;<\/strong>Report for America&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li><strong>Moderator: Sonja R. 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She\u00a0oversees\u00a0FRONTLINE\u2019s reporting on air and online, and directs the series\u2019 editorial vision, executive producing over twenty documentaries each year on critical issues facing the country\u00a0and world.\u00a0Under her leadership,\u00a0FRONTLINE\u00a0has earned\u00a0two Oscar nominations and won\u00a0every major award in broadcast journalism, including Peabody Awards, Emmy Awards,\u00a0an Institutional Peabody Award and\u00a0the first Alfred I.\u00a0duPont-Columbia University Gold Baton in a decade.<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Tracy-Baim.jpg\" alt=\"Tracy Baim\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Tracy Baim<\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">President and Co-Publisher, Chicago Reader<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Baim is president and co-publisher of the\u00a0Chicago Reader. She is also co-founder of\u00a0Windy City Times. Baim received the 2013 Chicago Headline Club Lifetime Achievement Award. She is in the\u00a0NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists\u00a0Hall of Fame, the Association for Women Journalists-Chicago Chapter Hall of Fame and the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame. She has won numerous LGBTQ community and journalism honors, including the Community Media Workshop\u2019s Studs Terkel Award in 2005. Baim has written and\/or edited thirteen books, including\u00a0&#8220;Gay Press, Gay Power: The Growth of LGBT Community Newspapers in America.&#8221;<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Jon_Belgrad-2.jpg\" alt=\"Jon Belgrad\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Jon Belgrad<\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">Officer\/Journalism, Knight Foundation<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Belgrad joined Knight Foundation as Miami program associate in May 2019. He became an officer in the Journalism Program in April 2021.\u00a0His work focuses on advancing the business models that sustain independent local news. Before joining Knight, Belgrad helped grow Pacific54, a boutique digital marketing agency in Miami, serving startups, universities, banks and nonprofits. A self-taught marketer and hobbyist glassblower, Belgrad started his career at a B2B SaaS startup in San Francisco and has spent time building an art studio in Colorado.<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/nora-benavidez.jpg\" alt=\"Nora Benavidez \"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Nora Benavidez <\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">Senior Counsel and Director of Digital Justice and Civil Rights, Free Press<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Benavidez is a civil and human rights attorney working at the intersection of law, tech and democracy. She serves as senior counsel and director of digital justice and civil rights at Free Press, where she leads the organization\u2019s efforts to fight digital threats to democracy and to push for media and platform accountability. She previously served as the director of PEN America\u2019s U.S. Free Expression Programs, where she guided the organization\u2019s national advocacy agenda on First Amendment and free expression issues. She has authored policy reports on legislative attacks on fundamental rights. She previously worked in private practice and at the ACLU of Georgia, litigating significant cases representing victims of voting rights violations, unconstitutional police practices, First Amendment infringements and more.<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/jbrady_0259_highresolution.jpg\" alt=\"Jim Brady\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Jim Brady<\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">VP\/Journalism, Knight Foundation<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Brady joined Knight Foundation as vice president of the journalism program in 2021. He is a digital media innovator whose experience ranges from leading major brands, such as washingtonpost.com and Digital First Media, to starting a company that built local news sites in three cities.\u00a0<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Tracy_Brown.jpg\" alt=\"Tracy Brown\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Tracy Brown<\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">Chief Content Officer, Chicago Public Media<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Brown joined WBEZ\u2019s award-winning newsroom in 2019 as managing editor, after spending more than twenty-five years working in newspapers. Brown leads Chicago Public Media\u2019s strategy and the station\u2019s news operations across digital and broadcast media. She also oversees the newsroom, programming, podcasts, events and Vocalo, its urban alternative music station. Prior to joining Chicago Public Media, Brown spent a decade at the\u00a0Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She also served as co-chair of Cox Media Group\u2019s Diversity and Inclusion Council. Brown is a board member of the Local Media Association and a member of the Economic Club of Chicago. She is a 2021 Sulzberger Executive Leadership Fellow at Columbia University, a 2015 fellow of Leadership DeKalb in Atlanta and former president of the Dunwoody-Atlanta chapter of Jack and Jill of America, a national organization of Black mothers nurturing children in culture and leadership.<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Cooper-Carragher-Haim.jpg\" alt=\"Cooper Carragher-Haim\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Cooper Carragher-Haim<\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">Middle School Student, Dwight-Englewood School<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Carragher-Haim is a 13-year-old student at the Dwight Englewood School in Englewood New Jersey. His academic interests include, science, math, and poetry. He lives in the Upper West Side with his family and two Havaneese dogs. He is an active athlete playing, basketball, soccer, tennis, and football.\u00a0<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Ta-Nehisi-Coates.jpeg\" alt=\"Ta-Nehisi Coates\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Ta-Nehisi Coates<\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">Award-winning author and journalist<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Coates is the author of the bestselling books\u00a0&#8220;The Beautiful Struggle,&#8221;\u00a0&#8220;We Were Eight Years in Power,&#8221;\u00a0&#8220;The Water Dancer,&#8221; and\u00a0&#8220;Between the World and Me,&#8221; which won the National Book Award in 2015.\u00a0He was a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship that same year.\u00a0As a journalist with a career spanning over two decades, he\u2019s written for numerous publications, including the\u00a0Washington City Paper, the\u00a0Village Voice, the\u00a0New Yorker\u00a0and the\u00a0New York Times. During his time reporting for the\u00a0Atlantic, from 2008 to 2018, he penned numerous articles and essays, including the National Magazine Award\u2013winning 2012 essay \u201cFear of a Black President\u201d<em>\u00a0<\/em>and the influential 2014 essay \u201cThe Case For Reparations<em>.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0Coats also enjoyed a successful run writing Marvel\u2019s\u00a0Black Panther\u00a0(2016\u201321) and\u00a0Captain America\u00a0(2018\u201321) comic series. In Fall 2022, he will join Howard University\u2019s faculty as a writer-in-residence and the Sterling Brown Chair in the department of English.<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Brandi-Collins-headshot.jpg\" alt=\"Brandi Collins-Dexter\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Brandi Collins-Dexter<\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">Former Senior Campaign Director, Color Of Change<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Collins-Dexter is a former senior campaign director at Color Of Change, where she oversaw the media, culture and economic justice departments. She is also a researcher at the Harvard Kennedy School\u2019s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and\u00a0Public\u00a0Policy. As part of her work, she researches, writes and presents on issues that are core to\u00a0Black\u00a0participation in democracy and the U.S. economy, with particular focus on the role technology and information integrity play in improving or deteriorating community health.\u00a0Collins-Dexter is a regular commentator in the media on racial justice. Collins-Dexter\u2019s first book,\u00a0&#8220;Black\u00a0Skinhead: Reflections on Blackness and Our Political Future,&#8221; will be released by Celadon Books in\u00a0September 2022.<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Cross-headshot-2021-medium-res.jpg\" alt=\"Sue Cross\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Sue Cross<\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">CEO, Institute for Nonprofit News<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Cross leads the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN), a network of more than 360 nonprofit news organizations building the most stable, sustainable model for inclusive, independent journalism as a public service. She joined INN in 2015 to build its emerging news network and advance social enterprise models for investigative and other public service journalism. Cross is a former senior vice president for the Associated Press global news agency, where she created digital news services, expanded Spanish language and Latin American operations, introduced video to more than a thousand news sites and managed a national news cooperative.\u00a0<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Dr.-Daniel-Olu-Fagbuyi.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Daniel B. Fagbuyi \"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Dr. Daniel B. Fagbuyi <\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">CEO, Erudition<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Dr. Fagbuyi is a distinguished ER physician, war veteran, biodefense and public health expert, media contributor and CEO of Erudition. He served as medical director for disaster preparedness at Children\u2019s National Health System, and was an assistant professor of pediatrics and emergency medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine, where he earned his MD at age twenty-five.\u00a0Dr. Fagbuyi was one of the first and youngest African Americans appointed by a U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to the National Biodefense Science Board. He also served as chairman of the Anthrax Vaccine Working Group, HHS, and as a special medical advisor to the FDA.\u00a0As a medical expert, he has provided public health information to media outlets, including CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, the\u00a0Washington Post,\u00a0Business Insider, National Public Radio, Associated Press,\u00a0Science, CBS and\u00a0The Today Show.<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/President-Dr-Wayne-A.-I.-Frederick-MD-MBA-2020.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Wayne A. I. Frederick \"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Dr. Wayne A. I. Frederick <\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">President, Howard University <\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Dr. Frederick is the seventeenth president of Howard University, where he also previously served as provost and chief academic officer.\u00a0Dr. Frederick has advanced Howard University\u2019s commitment to student opportunity, academic innovation, public service and fiscal stability.\u00a0Dr. Frederick received his BS and MD from Howard University.\u00a0Following his post-doctoral research and surgical oncology fellowships at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, he began his academic career as associate director of the cancer center at the University of Connecticut. Upon his return to Howard University, his academic positions included associate dean in the College of Medicine, division chief in the department of Surgery, director of the Cancer Center and deputy provost for Health Sciences. He also earned an MBA from the School of Business in 2011.\u00a0<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Lauren-Gustus.jpg\" alt=\"Lauren Gustus\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Lauren Gustus<\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">Executive Editor, Salt Lake Tribune<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Gustus is executive editor of the Salt Lake Tribune. She previously worked for McClatchy as the west region editor, overseeing ten news organizations in Idaho, Washington and California, including the flagship\u00a0Sacramento Bee. Gustus has also served as an editor in Reno and in Colorado, where her work on transparency contributed to a new law that facilitates greater access to public records.<br\/>The document Lauren mentioned during KMF 2022 is here: https:\/\/kf.org\/3JQBX0I<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Nikole-Hannah-Jones-1.jpg\" alt=\"Nikole Hannah-Jones\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Nikole Hannah-Jones<\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">American Journalist &amp; Author, 1619 Project<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Hannah-Jones has spent her career investigating racial inequality and injustice, and has a MacArthur Fellowship, a Peabody Award, two George Polk Awards and three National Magazine Awards. Hannah-Jones also earned the John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism and was named Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists and by the Newswomen\u2019s Club of New York. She was inducted into the Society of American Historians in 2020 and into the North Carolina Media and Journalism Hall of Fame in 2021. She was named one of the 100 Most Influential People by\u00a0<em>Time<\/em>\u00a0magazine in 2021. In 2016, Hannah-Jones cofounded the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, which seeks to\u00a0increase the number of reporters and editors of color. She holds an MA in mass communication from the University of North Carolina and earned a BA in history and African American studies from the University of Notre Dame.\u00a0Hannah-Jones\u00a0is the Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at Howard University, where she has founded the Center for Journalism and Democracy.<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Rose-Hoban.jpg\" alt=\"Rose Hoban \"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Rose Hoban <\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">Founder and Editor, North Carolina Health News<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Hoban founded the not-for-profit\u00a0North Carolina Health News\u00a0after spending more than six years as the health reporter for North Carolina Public Radio WUNC, where she covered health care, state health policy, science and research with a focus on public health issues. Hoban is a registered nurse who worked in a variety of community health settings for almost fifteen years, including an inner-city emergency department, home hospice and home care and as a medical project director for M\u00e9decins Sans Frontieres\/Doctors Without Borders\u00a0in Indonesia. After a decade and more than 3,000 articles, NC Health News has become a recognized authority on health care in North Carolina, garnering multiple state and national awards. Hoban also serves on the board of LION Publishers, an organization dedicated to rebuilding the United States\u2019 frayed local news ecosystem.\u00a0<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Alberto-Ibarguen.jpeg\" alt=\"Alberto Ibarg\u00fcen\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Alberto Ibarg\u00fcen<\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">President and CEO, Knight Foundation<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Ibarg\u00fcen is the former publisher of\u00a0The Miami Herald\u00a0and\u00a0El Nuevo Herald. During his tenure, The Miami Herald won three Pulitzer Prizes and El Nuevo Herald won Spain\u2019s Ortega y Gasset Prize for excellence in journalism. He graduated from\u00a0Wesleyan University\u00a0and the\u00a0University of Pennsylvania Law School. Between college and law school, he served in the\u00a0Peace Corps. After law school, he practiced law in Hartford, Conn., until he joined\u00a0The Hartford Courant, then\u00a0Newsday\u00a0in New York, before moving to Miami. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts &amp; Sciences.\u00a0<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Dave_Isay_in-storybooth_2013-08-21-IMG_0760-by-Harvey-Wang.jpg\" alt=\"Dave Isay\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Dave Isay<\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">Founder and President, StoryCorps<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Dave Isay is one of the most trusted and respected broadcasters working today. The recipient of six Peabody Awards and a MacArthur Fellowship, his work taps into the heart and soul of the human experience. Founded in 2003, StoryCorps is an independent nonprofit organization\u00a0based in Brooklyn that has brought more than 600,000 Americans together \u2014 two at a time \u2014 to record intimate conversations about their lives, create human connection, pass wisdom from one generation to the next and leave a legacy for the future. Each conversation is preserved at the\u00a0American Folklife Center\u00a0at the\u00a0Library of Congress. <\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/aa4380d4e9b9f906b12de6431f0697b9.Kelly-Jin.jpeg\" alt=\"Kelly Jin\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Kelly Jin<\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">VP\/Communities, Knight Foundation<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Jin joined Knight Foundation as vice president of the community and national initiatives program in 2021. She brings to her role data, technology and strategy experience in federal, state and local governments.\u00a0<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Rashida-Jones-photo-crop.jpeg\" alt=\"Rashida Jones\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Rashida Jones<\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">President of MSNBC<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Jones is president of MSNBC, the premier destination for breaking news, award-winning journalism, in-depth analysis and informed perspectives. She is responsible for oversight of programming, editorial units, business development and technical operations.\u00a0<\/p><p>Prior to taking on this role in 2021, Jones served as senior vice president, NBC News and MSNBC, where she spearheaded cross-platform breaking news and major events for both networks, including coverage of COVID-19 and the networks\u2019 Decision 2020 programming. Jones received an Emmy Award for strategic coverage of the Supreme Court\u2019s decision on same-sex marriage in 2016 and executive produced the most-watched Democratic presidential debate in history during the 2020 election cycle. She received a BA in mass media-arts broadcast from Hampton University. <\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/MFJ_4784.jpg\" alt=\"Dave Jorgenson\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Dave Jorgenson<\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">Video Producer, Editor &amp; Writer, The Washington Post<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Jorgenson is a video producer, editor and writer at The Washington Post. While at the Washington Post, Dave launched their\u00a0TikTok channel, where he posts short, newsworthy TikToks\u00a0twice a day, five days a week. The account has gained over 1.1 million followers. For his work on TikTok, he earned two Webby nominations in 2020 and a win in 2021. He won an award from the North American Digital Awards for &#8216;Best Digital Project to Engage Young and\/or Millennial Audiences.&#8217; He also made the\u00a0<em>Forbes 30 under 30\u00a0<\/em>list\u00a0in December 2020.<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/PAF08252016-132-2.jpg\" alt=\"Karen Lambert\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Karen Lambert<\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">President and CEO, Peyton Anderson Foundation <\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Lambert is president and chief executive officer of the Peyton Anderson Foundation in Macon, Georgia. Established in 1988, the foundation initiates projects to meet needs in the Macon community, responds to requests from charitable organizations and provides college scholarships to promising students with financial need. Lambert graduated from Mercer University with a degree in business administration. Prior to joining the Peyton Anderson Foundation, she was president and CEO of Macon\u2019s award-winning International Cherry Blossom Festival and executive director of Keep Macon-Bibb Beautiful. Lambert is a member of Southeastern Council of Foundations, Georgia Grantmakers Alliance and Macon Council of Foundations. She is vice chair of NewTown Macon and serves on the board of directors of the Community Foundation of Central Georgia, Central Georgia Technical College and the Museum of Aviation. <\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Yvonne-Leow-photo.jpg\" alt=\"Yvonne Leow\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Yvonne Leow<\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">Newmark School of Journalism<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Leow is a creator-in-residence at CUNY and the founder of Bewilder, an outdoor recreation startup based in California. She&#8217;s a long time journalist who has worked as a video producer for the Associated Press and a senior Snapchat editor for Vox.com. She was previously a media columnist for the Reynolds Journalism Institute, a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University, and the former national president of the Asian American Journalists Association. You can reach her at\u00a0@YvonneLeow.<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Ju-Don-Marshall.jpg\" alt=\"Ju-Don Marshall\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Ju-Don Marshall<\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">Chief Content Officer and Executive Vice President, WFAE<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Marshall is chief content officer and executive vice president of WFAE, the NPR station in Charlotte. Previously, she was the chief operating officer of LifePosts, a collaborative storytelling platform that she helped launch; director for the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University; and general manager and senior vice president for Everyday Health. Before joining Everyday Health, Marshall was executive editor and senior vice president at News Corporation. Marshall also spent seventeen years at the\u00a0Washington Post, where she led its award-winning digital team. She is on the boards of Greater Public, the National Trust for Local News and the North Carolina Open Government Coalition, and is an adviser to the Center for Journalism &amp; Liberty, the North Carolina Local News Workshop and the Religion News Service.<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Stephanie-Mehta-crop.jpeg\" alt=\"Stephanie Mehta \"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Stephanie Mehta <\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">Editor-in-chief, Fast Company<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Mehta is editor-in-chief of\u00a0Fast Company,\u00a0overseeing its print, digital and live journalism. She previously served as a deputy editor at\u00a0Vanity Fair,\u00a0where she edited feature stories and coedited the annual New Establishment ranking. She also curated the invitation-only New Establishment Summit and Founders Fair conference for women entrepreneurs, which she launched in 2017. She has worked as a writer and editor at\u00a0Bloomberg Media,\u00a0Fortune\u00a0and\u00a0the\u00a0Wall Street Journal. Mehta began her career as a business reporter at\u00a0the\u00a0Virginian-Pilot\u00a0in Norfolk, Virginia. She received a BA in English and an MS in journalism from Northwestern University.\u00a0<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/LAT-Exec-Editor-K-Merida.jpg\" alt=\"Kevin Merida \"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Kevin Merida <\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">Executive Editor, Los Angeles Times<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Merida is executive editor of the\u00a0<em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>, where he oversees the newsroom as well as Times Community News and Los Angeles Times en Espa\u00f1ol. Previously, Merida was a senior vice president at ESPN and editor-in-chief of the Undefeated, a multimedia platform that explores the intersections of race, sports and culture. During his tenure at ESPN, he also oversaw the investigative\/news enterprise unit, the television shows\u00a0E:60\u00a0and\u00a0Outside the Lines, and chaired ESPN\u2019s editorial board. Before joining ESPN, Merida spent twenty-two years at the\u00a0Washington Post\u00a0as a congressional correspondent, national political reporter, long-form feature writer, magazine columnist and senior editor in several roles. During his tenure as managing editor, he helped lead the\u00a0Post\u00a0to four Pulitzer Prizes, and the newspaper embarked on a digital transformation that made it one of the fastest growing news organizations in the country<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/0084_Raul_Moas_P-2_1.jpg\" alt=\"Raul Moas\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Raul Moas<\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">Director\/Miami, Knight Foundation<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Raul Moas joined Knight Foundation in 2018. Prior to joining Knight, Moas served as the managing director of Miami Angels, Florida\u2019s largest angel investor collective, which brings together exceptional entrepreneurs and accredited investors to fuel success.\u00a0 Moas is passionate about Greater Miami and deeply involved in making his community a better place. As a founding member of the Global Shapers Miami Hub, the young professional arm of the World Economic Forum, he focused on promoting more equitable and inclusive economic development. Moas is also a member of Class VIII of The Miami Foundation\u2019s Miami Fellows program.<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Mochkofsky_crop-bw.jpg\" alt=\"Graciela Mochkofsky \"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Graciela Mochkofsky <\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">Executive Director, Center for Community Media, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Mochkofsky joined the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY in February 2016 as the first director of its Bilingual Journalism Program. A native of Argentina, she received the 2018 Maria Moors Cabot Prize for outstanding reporting across Latin America and the Caribbean. Mochkofsky has worked as a political correspondent and contributor with\u00a0La Naci\u00f3n\u00a0in Argentina,\u00a0El Pa\u00eds\u00a0in Spain, the\u00a0California Sunday Magazine, the New Yorker online and the Paris Review blog. She is the author of six nonfiction books in Spanish. Her forthcoming book,\u00a0The Prophet of the Andes,\u00a0will be published in English by Knopf. Mochkofsky has served as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library, a Prins Foundation Fellow at the Center for Jewish History, a visiting scholar at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University and a visiting scholar at the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life at Columbia University. <\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/profile_image_800.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Moog \"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Matt Moog <\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">Chief Executive Officer, Chicago Public Media<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Moog is CEO of Chicago Public Media; he brings to this role experience leading and growing organizations during times of change, years of civic leadership, a commitment to local journalism and significant experience in digital innovation. He joined Chicago Public Media in 2020, after having served as a member of its board of directors and as a past board chair.\u00a0Prior to Chicago Public Media, he was the founder and CEO of several innovative technology companies. Throughout his career, Moog has been committed to creating diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace cultures that provide opportunities for learning, excellence and professional development.\u00a0He is passionate about the important role journalism plays in creating a healthy democracy, fostering civic engagement and building stronger communities.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Kristen-Oliveri-NH-Charitable-Foundation.jpg\" alt=\"Kristen Oliveri \"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Kristen Oliveri <\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">Vice President of Communications and Marketing, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Oliveri is vice president of communications and marketing at the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, the largest private provider of nonprofit grants and student aid in northern New England. The foundation manages more than $1 billion in charitable funds donated by hundreds of families and individuals and awards some 7,000 grants and scholarships exceeding $50 million annually. Oliveri leads all aspects of the foundation\u2019s communications and marketing strategies, including messaging and brand strategy, public relations and digital and print media. She studied economics and political science at the University of New Hampshire\u2019s Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics and earned a master\u2019s degree in public administration at University of New Hampshire.<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Jennifer_Paganelli_BW.jpg\" alt=\"Jennifer Paganelli\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Jennifer Paganelli<\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">Practice Leader, Earned Media, Real Chemistry<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Paganelli is a Practice Leader at Real Chemistry,\u00a0an healthcare communications company. She runs the firm\u2019s 60-person healthcare earned media team, bringing twenty years of experience serving as a storytelling advisor to a range of healthcare organizations. During the pandemic, her dedicated team supported dozens of companies on the front-lines of COVID-19 across vaccines, treatments, testing, and beyond. She counsels organizations on how to tell their stories accurately, authentically and transparently. A news-junkie herself, Paganelli works with agenda-setting reporters across the media ecosystem to drive meaningful stories that inspire, educate, and drive action. She feels strongly that tackling healthcare mis- and dis-information is a shared responsibility that requires less lip-service and more action in our ever-changing digital (and skeptical) world.<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Dale-Anglin-2021-YOU-photo.jpg\" alt=\"Dale Robinson Anglin \"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Dale Robinson Anglin <\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">Vice President for Program, Cleveland Foundation<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Robinson Anglin is vice president for program for the Cleveland Foundation, the nation\u2019s first community foundation. She originally joined the Cleveland Foundation in October 2017 as the program director for youth, health and human services. Since March 2020,\u00a0Robinson Anglin\u00a0has led the Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund\/Funders Collaborative on COVID Recovery, working with a wide range of funders to raise over $20 million to support local pandemic relief and recovery. From 2006 to 2017, she served as associate director for programs at the Victoria Foundation in Newark, New Jersey. Her prior positions include executive director of the Association for Public Policy and Management and an analyst at the Congressional Research Service, both in Washington, DC. She holds a bachelor\u2019s degree from Smith College and a master\u2019s degree in public policy from the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.\u00a0<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Karen_staff.jpg\" alt=\"Karen Rundlet \"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Karen Rundlet <\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">Director\/Journalism, Knight Foundation<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Rundlet joined Knight Foundation in November 2015. As director of the journalism program, her focus is on investing in new methods and models to advance excellence in journalism and civic media as a way to support informed local communities.<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Julie-Sandorf.jpg\" alt=\"Julie Sandorf \"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Julie Sandorf <\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">President, Charles H. Revson Foundation <\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Sandorf is president of the Charles H. Revson Foundation. Before joining Revson, she was a co-founder and executive director of Nextbook, a national organization dedicated to the creation and promotion of Jewish literature, culture and the arts. From 1991 through 1999, she was president of the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH), an organization she founded that worked to deliver permanent solutions to chronic homelessness in partnership with philanthropic foundations, nonprofit organizations and government at the local, state and national levels. Previously, she was a program director at the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC). She currently serves as an adviser to the Oak Foundation, is vice-chair of the board of directors of the Center for Urban Community Services, is a member of the INN Communications Strategy Advisory Board, and is a member of the board of directors of the West Side Federation for Senior and Supportive Housing, the A.M. and Ruth Z. Fleishman Foundation and the Carolina Beacon.\u00a0<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Versha-Sharma-Crop.jpg\" alt=\"Versha Sharma \"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Versha Sharma <\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">Editor-in-Chief, Teen Vogue<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Sharma is editor-in-chief at Teen Vogue. Previously, she was managing editor and senior correspondent at NowThis, where she led audience growth on new platforms from Instagram to Facebook to YouTube, working at the social video-first company since 2014. She\u2019s produced several short documentaries and filed dispatches on immigration from the United States-Mexico border, reported from mass protests in St. Louis and traveled to Moscow for the show she hosts and produces,\u00a0The Russia Desk. Sharma won an Edward R. Murrow Award with the NowThis Reports team for a short documentary about the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. Sharma has long been an enthusiastic voice for the most innovative models in digital journalism. Prior to NowThis, she worked as a reporter and editor for Vocativ, where she managed a team of international reporters. She covered the 2012 presidential election for MSNBC and got her start in journalism with an internship at Talking Points Memo in 2009.<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Mazin-Sidahmed.jpg\" alt=\"Mazin Sidahmed \"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Mazin Sidahmed <\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">Co-Executive Director, Documented<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Sidahmed is Co-Executive director of Documented, a nonprofit news site that covers immigration in the New York area. Before founding Documented, he was a reporter at the\u00a0<em>Guardian<\/em>\u00a0US in New York on the national desk as well as with the award-winning Guardian Mobile Innovation Lab. He started his career covering the Syrian refugee crisis in Beirut for the local English-language newspaper, the\u00a0<em>Daily Star<\/em>.<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/RJS-Headshot-2020-Internal.jpg\" alt=\"Rajiv J. Shah\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Rajiv J. Shah<\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">President, Rockefeller Foundation<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Shah is president of the Rockefeller Foundation, a global institution committed to promoting the well-being of humanity around the world through data, science and innovation.\u00a0 Under his leadership, the foundation raised and deployed more than $1 billion to respond to the COVID pandemic at home and abroad, launched a Pandemic Prevention Institute to prevent future health crises, and created a $10 billion Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet to help secure a just and green recovery. Shah serves on President Biden\u2019s Defense Policy Board and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations.<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Charles-Thomas.jpg\" alt=\"Charles Thomas\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Charles Thomas<\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">Director\/Charlotte, Knight Foundation<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Thomas joined Knight Foundation in February 2016. He is the former executive director of Queen City Forward, a hub for entrepreneurs who have business ideas that address social needs. As founding executive director, he was responsible for launching the organization and building programs to catalyze and support social entrepreneurship, college entrepreneurship and civic innovation.\u00a0He previously served as the director of education of the Light Factory Contemporary Museum of Photography and Film. A professional photographer, Thomas co-published a book of photography and stories with Valaida Fullwood titled\u00a0&#8220;Giving Back: A Tribute to Generations of African American Philanthropists,&#8221; which received the 2012 Terry McAdam Book Award.\u00a0Thomas earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in economics from Duke University and is a graduate of several leadership programs, such as Leadership Charlotte, the Leadership Development Initiative and the Innovation Institute at the McColl Center for the Visual Arts.\u00a0<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-19-at-3.23.31-PM.png\" alt=\"Andr\u00e9s Torres\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Andr\u00e9s Torres<\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">Director of Strategy, Planning and Operations, Robert R. McCormick Foundation<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Torres<strong>,\u00a0<\/strong>a committed partnership-builder, has worked in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors fostering collaborations to drive social change. His experience includes policy-making in several fields, from transportation to tourism. Prior to McCormick, he led work at Grand Victoria Foundation developing networks to improve early childhood and environmental policy in Illinois. Torres\u00a0holds degrees in City Design and Policy, from the London School of Economics, and Humanities, from Yale University.<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Mark-Trahant.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Trahant\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Mark Trahant<\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">Editor-at-Large, Indian Country Today (ICT) <\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Trahant is editor-at-large for Indian Country Today (ICT) and  leads the Indigenous Economics Project, a comprehensive look at Indigenous economics, including market-based initiatives.\u00a0Trahant was hired to revive ICT after it went out of business in 2017. The success has been phenomenal. The digital site now reaches 700,000 people per month and the broadcast is carried on two dozen public television stations. Trahant is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has held endowed chairs at the University of North Dakota and University of Alaska Anchorage. He has worked as a journalist since 1976.<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Jim_Vandehei_Headshot.jpg\" alt=\"Jim VandeHei \"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Jim VandeHei <\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">Cofounder and CEO, Axios<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>VandeHei is co-founder and CEO of Axios, a media company focused on breaking news and invaluable insights that help readers and viewers get smarter faster across the topics reshaping our country and lives. VandeHei has steered Axios into becoming one of the most celebrated digital media success stories of the past few years, including overseeing the launches of Axios Local and Axios HQ. VandeHei is also an executive producer of Axios on HBO, the Emmy Award\u2013winning docu-news series.\u00a0Before Axios, VandeHei cofounded and was CEO of Politico, the media company that upended and revolutionized political and policy journalism in Washington, New York and Europe. <\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/NOTICIAS-20204441-CL.jpg\" alt=\"Julio Vaqueiro \"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Julio Vaqueiro <\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">Noticias Telemundo<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Julio Vaqueiro is the anchor of \u201cNoticias Telemundo,\u201d Telemundo&#8217;s flagship evening newscast.\u00a0An Emmy-award winning journalist, Vaqueiro has covered some of the most important stories in recent years, including the coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 presidential election, immigration issues at the U.S.-Mexico border and the political and economic crisis in Venezuela.\u00a0Before moving to the United States, Vaqueiro also worked as a reporter and anchor at Efekto TV in Mexico City. <span style=\"font-size: revert; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif;\">He earned his bachelor\u2019s degree in communications from Universidad An\u00e1huac del Norte in Mexico City.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Steve-Waldman.jpg\" alt=\"Steven Waldman\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Steven Waldman<\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">President and Co-Founder, Report for America<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Waldman is president and cofounder of Report for America, a national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on under-covered topics and communities. It is an initiative of the GroundTruth Project. He is also the founder and chair of the Rebuild Local News Coalition, which advocates for public policies to help local news, and a cofounder of the National Trust for Local News. He crafted the plan for it after authoring the Federal Communications Commission landmark report \u201cInformation Needs of Communities,\u201d which National Public Radio described as \u201cone of the most comprehensive overviews of the U.S. media ever produced.\u201d An experienced entrepreneur, he co-founded the multi-faith religion website Beliefnet.com, which won the National Magazine Award, and LifePosts.com, a platform for online memorials. Earlier, he was national editor of U.S. News &amp; World Report and national correspondent for\u00a0<em>Newsweek<\/em>. He wrote a book on the creation of AmeriCorps called\u00a0&#8220;The Bill.&#8221; He\u2019s also the author of the national bestseller\u00a0&#8220;Founding Faith.&#8221; Waldman is on the board of directors of the GroundTruth Project.<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Maple-Walker-LLoyd-headshot.jpg\" alt=\"Maple Walker Lloyd\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Maple Walker Lloyd<\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">Director of Development and Community Engagement, Block Club Chicago<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Walker Lloyd is director of development and community engagement at Block Club Chicago, where she works with subscribers, foundations and corporations to expand Block Club\u2019s support base.\u00a0Prior to Block Club Chicago, she was team coordinator for the Journalism and Media program at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.\u00a0<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Dr.-Katrine-L.-Wallace-crop.jpeg\" alt=\"Dr. Katrine Wallace \"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Dr. Katrine Wallace <\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">Epidemiologist, University of Illinois at Chicago<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Dr. Wallace holds a Ph.D. in epidemiology and has more than fifteen years of professional research experience in epidemiology, research design, pharmacoepidemiology, health economics, outcomes research and biostatistics. She is currently an epidemiologist and adjunct assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Illinois at Chicago\u2019s School of Public Health.\u00a0Whe serves as a member of Team Halo (United Nations Verified Initiative), Project FIDES (World Health Organization) and was chosen as a \u201cvaccine luminary\u201d for the 2021 G7 Vaccine Confidence Summit.\u00a0Dr. Wallace has also been featured as an opinion contributor for The Hill and has been interviewed or profiled in several mainstream media outlets such as BBC World News, the\u00a0Washington Post,\u00a0Good Morning America, Bloomberg, CBS News and National Public Radio.<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Mary-Walter-Brown.jpg\" alt=\"Mary Walter-Brown\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Mary Walter-Brown<\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">Founder and CEO, News Revenue Hub<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>A news and fundraising industry veteran with expertise in revenue diversification and strategic audience development, Walter-Brown is the founder and CEO of News Revenue Hub, which provides critical technology infrastructure and consulting services to independent digital newsrooms seeking greater financial sustainability. Founded in 2016, the Hub has helped more than seventy local, regional and national news organizations crowdfund over $50 million.<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Wardle-Headshot.jpg\" alt=\"Claire Wardle\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Claire Wardle<\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">Professor, School of Public Health, Brown University<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Wardle is considered one of the world\u2019s leading experts on misinformation. She is a professor at the School of Public Health at Brown University. She leads First Draft, a nonprofit she cofounded in 2015. In 2009, she left her academic position at Cardiff University to develop an organization-wide training program for the BBC on social media, verification and misinformation, and has been obsessed with the topic ever since. In 2017, she coauthored the foundational report \u201cInformation Disorder: An Interdisciplinary Framework for Research and Policy for the Council of Europe.\u201d Over the past decade she has been a fellow at TED and the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard\u2019s Kennedy School, research director at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University\u2019s Graduate School of Journalism and head of social media for the United Nations Refugee Agency. She holds a Ph.D. in communication from the University of Pennsylvania.<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Paul-Waters-Picture1.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Waters\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Paul Waters<\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">Associate Director, Democracy Fund<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Waters is associate director at Democracy Fund, an independent foundation working to ensure that our political system can withstand new challenges and deliver on its promise to the American people. Waters leads the Digital Democracy Initiative, which is focused on strengthening platform accountability and developing media policy measures to support our public square, centered on the experiences of Black, Indigenous and people of color. This portfolio includes funding to advance data policy innovation within a human rights framework, develop meaningful transparency and oversight mechanisms to counter disinformation and support media policy avenues to fund local, community and equitable journalism.<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Amy-Webb.jpg\" alt=\"Amy Webb\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Amy Webb<\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">Founder and CEO, Future Today Institute<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Webb advises CEOs of the world\u2019s most-admired companies, three-star admirals and generals, and the senior leadership of central banks and intergovernmental organizations. The founder and CEO of the\u00a0Future Today Institute, Webb pioneered a data-driven, technology-led foresight methodology that is now used in hundreds of organizations. She is a professor of strategic foresight at the\u00a0NYU Stern School of Business, a visiting fellow at Oxford University\u2019s S\u00e4id School of Business, a nonresident senior fellow in the Atlantic Council\u2019s GeoTech Center, a fellow in the United States-Japan Leadership Program and a foresight fellow in the U.S. Government Accountability Office Center for Strategic Foresight. She was elected a life member to the Council on Foreign Relations. She is the author of several popular books, including\u00a0&#8220;The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity&#8221;\u00a0and\u00a0&#8220;The Signals Are Talking: Why Today\u2019s Fringe Is Tomorrow\u2019s Mainstream.&#8221; Webb was named by\u00a0Forbes\u00a0as one of five women changing the world, listed as the BBC\u2019s 100 Women of 2020 and included in the Thinkers50 global ranking of the fifty most influential management thinkers.<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Lillian-Weinberg-2012-knight-foundation.jpg\" alt=\"Lilly Weinberg\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Lilly Weinberg<\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">Senior Director\/Community and National Initiatives, Knight Foundation<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Weinberg joined Knight Foundation in August 2012. She is a senior director of the Community and National Initiatives Program. Weinberg manages Knight\u2019s $140 million investment in eighteen small-to-midsize Knight communities and strategic initiatives across Knight cities.\u00a0<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Rick-Weiss.jpg\" alt=\"Rick Weiss\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Rick Weiss<\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">Founding Director, SciLine<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Weiss is founding director of SciLine, a philanthropically funded, editorially independent free service for journalists, based at the nonprofit American Association for the Advancement of Science. SciLine connects journalists to scientists and other resources to facilitate the inclusion of research-backed evidence in news stories. Weiss has more than three decades of experience in journalism and media affairs, including fifteen years as a science reporter at\u00a0the Washington Post, where he wrote more than 1,000 news and feature articles about the economic, societal and ethical implications of advances in science and technology. Weiss holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in biology from Cornell University and a master\u2019s degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley.<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Sonja-West.jpg\" alt=\"Sonja R. West \"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Sonja R. West <\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">Professor in First Amendment Law, University of Georgia School of Law<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>West&#8217;s scholarship focuses on issues involving the First Amendment\u00a0and the United States Supreme Court and has appeared in top legal journals such as the\u00a0Harvard Law Review, the\u00a0UCLA Law Review\u00a0and the\u00a0California Law Review. A graduate of the University of Chicago School of Law, West served as a law clerk for Judge Dorothy W. Nelson of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals and\u00a0U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. Her other professional experience includes several years practicing media law with the Los Angeles law firms Gibson, Dunn &amp; Crutcher and Davis Wright Tremaine. West has provided legal commentary to numerous news organizations including\u00a0the<em>\u00a0<\/em>New York Times,\u00a0the\u00a0Washington Post,\u00a0Slate, the\u00a0National Law Journal, MSNBC and National Public Radio.\u00a0<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Laure-Williams.jpg\" alt=\"Lauren Williams\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Lauren Williams<\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">Co-founder and CEO, Capital B<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Most recently, Williams was SVP and editor-in-chief of Vox, where she managed all editorial and business operations for the explanatory news network. In addition to Vox.com, Williams oversaw one of YouTube\u2019s largest news channels (with more than 9 million subscribers) and more than a dozen podcasts, including the daily news show\u00a0Today, Explained, and a TV operation anchored by the Netflix franchise\u00a0Explained. Prior to becoming the top editor at Vox, Williams served as executive editor and managing editor. Before joining Vox, Williams was an editor at\u00a0Mother Jones\u00a0and deputy editor of\u00a0The\u00a0Root.\u00a0<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Kinsey-Wilson.png\" alt=\"Kinsey Wilson\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Kinsey Wilson<\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">Founder and Head of Newspack<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Wilson is founder and head of Newspack, a technology initiative funded by Google and WordPress.com designed to help digital news organizations address their technology needs and find a path to financial sustainability. To date, more than 150 sites have launched on the platform. Wilson has worked at the intersection of journalism and technology for more than two decades. He has held top editorial and business positions at the\u00a0New York Times, National Public Radio and\u00a0USA TODAY, and played a key role in the digital transformation of their businesses, including innovations such as NPR One and the Times\u00a0breakout podcast,\u00a0The Daily. He was also closely involved in the development of the 2015 strategic manifesto\u00a0Our Path Forward, which set the stage for the\u00a0Times\u2019 gains in subscribers and digital revenue.<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Jai-Winston-crop.jpg\" alt=\"Jai Winston\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Jai Winston<\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">Director\/St. Paul<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Jai Winston joined Knight Foundation in 2016.<\/p><p>Previously, Winston was an associate of strategy and corporate development in the Office of the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Ariel Investments, a minority-owned money management firm in Chicago. At Ariel Investments, he focused on working with senior members of the firm and on other firm-wide strategic initiatives. In addition, he co-led several of the CEO\u2019s special projects, including some of the firm\u2019s national work on financial literacy and minority entrepreneurship. Winston earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in political science from Howard University in Washington, D.C.<\/p><p><\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/AY22s.jpg\" alt=\"Aimei Yang\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Aimei Yang<\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">Associate Professor of Public Relations, University of Southern California<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Yang is associate professor of public relations in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. 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She received a Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"block__speaker speaker\"><div class=\"speaker__container\" data-speaker=\"true\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__details\" tabindex=\"0\"><figure class=\"speaker__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"speaker__image-inner\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Lee-Zurik.jpg\" alt=\"Lee Zurik\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"speaker__content\"><div class=\"speaker__more\"><span>Learn More<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"4\" height=\"7\" fill=\"none\"><path fill=\"#9A9A9A\" d=\"M.533 1.435 2.598 3.5.533 5.565l.556.556L3.709 3.5 1.09.88l-.556.555Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><h3 class=\"speaker__name\">Lee Zurik<\/h3><span class=\"speaker__title\">Chief Investigative Reporter, WVUE-TV<\/span><\/div><\/button><div class=\"speaker__description-container speaker__description-container--hidden\"><div class=\"speaker__description\"><p>Zurik is evening news anchor and chief investigative reporter at WVUE-TV in New Orleans. 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Murrow Awards, the IRE Medal, six IRE Certificates and twelve Sigma Delta Chi Awards.<\/p><\/div><button type=\"button\" class=\"speaker__close speaker__description--hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" viewBox=\"1399.867 -2400 500.133 500\"><path fill=\"#d8d8d8\" stroke=\"#6f6f6f\" strokellinecap=\"round\" stroke-width=\"12\" d=\"M1399.867-2397.094 1900-1900M1400-1900l500-500\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<div data-background-color=\"white\" data-layout=\"column\" class=\"module module--type--three-up post-block three-up--background-color--white layout-column\"><div class=\"inner\"><header><h2 class=\"three-up-post-grid__heading\">Past Forums<\/h2><\/header><div class=\"inner-block__container\">\n<div data-background-color=\"transparent\" data-text-align=\"left\" data-program-id=\"0\" data-image-visible=\"true\" data-pa-visible=\"true\" class=\"module module--type--post-block post-block\"><div class=\"post-block__image\"><a class=\"post-block__link\" href=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/events\/knight-media-forum\/knight-media-forum-2021\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/KMF-2021-banner.png?w=350&amp;h=240&amp;crop=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"270607\" data-size=\"third-card\"\/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"post-block__inner\"><div class=\"post-block__type\" data-visible=\"true\">episode<\/div><h3 class=\"post-block__title\"><a class=\"post-block__link\" href=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/events\/knight-media-forum\/knight-media-forum-2021\/\">Knight Media Forum 2021<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"post-block__excerpt\"><p>Click here to quickly browse all videos from the forum. The Knight Media Forum is the premier gathering of leaders in philanthropy, journalism and technology working to strengthen local news, communities and democracy. 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