Medill School dean to speak on 'Real or Fake, Identifying Truth in Your News Feed'
Join Brad Hamm, Dean of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, to learn how to tell real news from fake at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 25, at New Trier High School, Northfield Campus, C Building, Room C234, 7 Happ Road.
The event, hosted by League of Women Voters of Glenview/Glencoe, also will include a discussion of the impact of recent media trends on our society and democracy.
Bradley J. Hamm is the dean of the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications.
Medill has programs in Chicago, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco in addition to its home campus in Evanston. Previously, he was dean of the Indiana University School of Journalism in Bloomington and Indianapolis.
Hamm's Ph.D. is in mass communication research from the University of North Carolina, with a master's degree in journalism from the University of South Carolina and an undergraduate degree from Catawba College in North Carolina.
He also served as the interim dean and associate dean of the School of Communications at Elon University in North Carolina. Hamm has taught in study abroad programs in Japan, China and Great Britain and started his career as a newspaper reporter. His teaching and research interests are in journalism history and media theory, particularly agenda setting theory.
He served as a trustee for the Poynter Institute and is a judge for the Scripps Howard National Journalism Awards. He serves as an independent, nonexecutive member of the board of directors for Next Digital media company of Hong Kong and Taiwan.
The League of Women Voters, a national nonpartisan political organization dedicated to promoting the active and informed participation of citizens in government, sponsors this event as a service to the community. The League of Women Voters neither endorses nor opposes candidates for public office.
The League of Women Voters of Glenview/Glencoe also serves Des Plaines, Niles and Northbrook.
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