Events

Past Event

Reporter Nights: Science Journalism in the Time of COVID-19

July 30, 2020
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
America/New_York
Online Event
On the Ground Truthtelling: Editing and Reporting in the Midst of a Pandemic Professor Dreifus and students in her class interview a panel of top science editors and reporters on their career paths, as well as the highlights and challenges of their day-to-day work. Panelists include The New York Times Science Correspondent, Apoorva Mandavilli, Jeffery DelViscio, Senior Multimedia Editor at Scientific American, John Timmer, Senior Science Editor at Ars Technica and Katherine Bagley, Managing Editor of YaleEnvironment360. A live stream link will be provided 24 hours in advance. About this series: Join us as we continue this dynamic live series exploring the mass media’s coverage of the biggest science story of our lifetime: the COVID-19 pandemic. This summer, Claudia Dreifus, SPS Lecturer in Professional Studies and contributor to The New York Times and The New York Review of Books, will moderate thought-provoking conversations with The New Yorker’s Elizabeth Kolbert and The Washington Post’s Margaret Sullivan analyzing the pandemic’s origins, the resulting issues in science communications highlighted by the crisis, and how lessons learned from the pandemic can be applied to other environmental-related disasters. A third evening will feature a panel of top science reporters and editors. Presented by Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies’ M.S. in Sustainability Management program, Reporter Nights represent another way Columbia is bringing its world-class community of scholars and practitioners to you this summer. This is a unique opportunity to engage in the conversations that are shaping the world and driving innovation as we navigate the “new normal” and beyond. Only at Columbia. Previous Reporter Nights featured Donald McNeil, The New York Times science and health correspondent who broke the COVID-19 story, John Schwartz, who covers climate change for the Times, and Harvard science historian Naomi Oreskes, the author of Why Trust Science and Merchants of Doubt. _____________________________________________________________________________________ For questions, please contact Samantha Ostrowski, Associate Director, Graduate Programs in Sustainability Management and Science, at [email protected]. For additional information about program offerings at Columbia University's School of Professional Studies, please contact an Admissions Counselor at 212-854-9666 or [email protected].

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Samantha Ostrowski