Thursday, October 3 at 3:00pm
Freedom Forum Conference Center, Carroll Hall
The UNC Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life and Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media will host a talk by Joshua Darr, Assistant Professor in the Manship School of Mass Communication and the Department of Political Science at Louisiana State University, on October 3 at 3:00pm in the Freedom Forum Conference Center of the Hussman School of Journalism and Media. Darr’s presentation, “Closed Newspapers and Polarized Politics: What Can We Do?,” will examine local media’s place in the polarization puzzle that faces American politics today and whether local newspapers can do anything to stop it.