Journalism under Fire
2020
Confirmed Speakers
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DANA PRIEST
Investigative Reporter,
The Washington Post
Returning for her third JUF experience, Dana is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for reporting on the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in 2008, and the CIA’s secret prisons in 2006
WESLEY LOWERY
Correspondent,
CBS News and 60 Minutes
Wesley Lowery is the author of a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement. He has twice been a member of teams awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and his work has appeared in the Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and more!
NICHOLAS KRISTOF
Op-Ed Columnist,
The New York Times
Nicholas is a two-time Pulitzer winner for his coverage of Tiananmen Square and the genocide in Darfur. He and his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, will headline the Grand Opening Event on November 10th.
SHERYL WUDUNN
Author, Reporter, Business Executive
Sheryl is the first Asian-American reporter to win a Pulitzer Prize and best-selling author of Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope among other titles. She will speak with her husband, Nicholas Kristof, on November 10th.
EJ DIONNE JR
Syndicated Columnist,
The Washington Post
E.J. Dionne Jr. is a syndicated columnist for The Washington Post, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, university professor in the Foundations of Democracy and Culture at Georgetown University, and visiting professor at Harvard University.
BOB WOODWARD
Investigative Reporter,
Associate Editor
The Washington Post
Bob has worked at the Post since 1971. He has shared in two Pulitzer Prizes, first in 1973 for the coverage of the Watergate scandal, and second in 2003 as the lead reporter for coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He has authored or coauthored 18 books, all of which have been national non-fiction bestsellers.
JOEL SIMON
Executive Director,
The Committee to Protect Journalists
Joel writes and speaks widely on press freedom issues and is the author of three books, mostly recently We Want to Negotiate: The Secret World of Kidnapping, Hostages, and Ransom.
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PATRICIA CAMPOS MELLO
Reporter, Columnist
Folha de São Paulo
Patricia has covered international relations, human rights in over 50 countries; won CPJ's prestigious 2019 International Press Freedom Award. She will speak with CPJ's Dr. Courtney Radsch on December 2.
PETER BAKER
Chief White House Correspondent
The New York Times
Peter is the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times, a political analyst for MSNBC, and author of Days of Fire and The Breach. His new book, co-authored with his wife, Susan Glasser, is The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III.
SUSAN GLASSER
Staff writer, The New Yorker
Susan is the author of The New Yorker's weekly "Letter from Trump's Washington" as well as a CNN global affairs analyst. Her new book, co-authored with her husband, Peter Baker, is The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III.
MALACHY BROWNE
Visual Investigations Unit,
The New York Times
Returning from JUF 2019, Malachy's team won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize. His team has led investigations into into Russian airstrikes on hospitals in Syria, chemical weapons attacks in Syria, and on the Saudi officials who killed journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey.
BEN SMITH
Media Columnist,
The New York Times
Ben joined The New York Times in 2020 after eight years as founding editor in chief of BuzzFeed News. He will speak with Ivan Kolpakov on Crisis Journalism: Resistance vs. Independence.
ASTEAD HERNDON
National Political Reporter,
The New York Times
Political Analyst, CNN
Astead is currently covering the presidential election, with a specific lens on highlighting the diversity of the electorate. He'll speak in dialogue with Wesley Lowery on Our Social Crisis.
ALFREDO CORCHADO
Mexico City Bureau Chief,
The Dallas Morning News
Returning from JUF 2018, Alfredo is a journalist and author who specially covers Mexico. He is the author of two books, Midnight in Mexico and Homelands.
CLARISSA WARD
Chief International Correspondent
CNN
Clarissa is CNN’s multi award- winning chief international correspondent and the author of On All Fronts: the Education of a Journalist. She has covered conflicts around the world.
DAVID ROHDE
Executive Editor for News
The New Yorker website
A two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, he worked as an investigative reporter and foreign correspondent for Reuters, The New York Times, and The Christian Science Monitor. He is the author of, most recently, In Deep: The F.B.I., the C.I.A., and the Truth about America’s ‘Deep State.’
JACK OHMAN
Editorial Cartoonist,
The Sacramento Bee
Jack won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning. He will speak in conversation with Matt Wuerker on Satirizing Crisis (Part One), using his political cartoons to illustrate his response.
DR. HANY FARID
Professor,
University of California, Berkeley
Dr. Farid specializes in digital forensics, image analysis, and human perception. He will speak on Creating, Weaponizing, and Detecting Deep Fakes.
KEVIN 'KAL' KALLAGHER
Editorial Cartoonist, The Economist and The Baltimore Sun
Returning from JUF 2018, KAL is the first resident cartoonist in The Economist’s 145-year history. Kal’s diverse portfolio includes more than 8,000 cartoons, 140 covers, and six books.
PERVAIZ SHALLWANI
Senior Editor Investigative Enterprise CNN
Pervaiz is a Senior Editor at CNN running a team of investigative and enterprise reporters in New York and national beat leader setting coverage on issues related to policing. Before joining CNN, Pervaiz worked as Senior Editor and Writer at the Daily Beast.
ANN TELNAES
Editorial Cartoonist,
The Washington Post
​Returning from JUF 2018, Ann creates editorial cartoons in various mediums — animation, visual essays, live sketches, and traditional print. Before beginning her career as an editorial cartoonist, she worked for several years as a designer for Walt Disney Imagineering
MATT WUERKER
Editorial Cartoonist,
Politico
Matt is a founding staff member of Politico and especially well
known for poking fun at the partisan conflict in Washington
MARIA RESSA
Chief Executive Officer
Rappler
A journalist for nearly 35 years, Maria Ressa co-founded Rappler, leading the fight for press freedom in the Philippines. She has endured constant political harassment and arrests by the Duterte government. For her courage and work on disinformation, Maria was named Time Magazine’s 2018 Person of the Year.
RAMONA DIAZ
Documentary Filmmaker
A Thousand Cuts
Ramona's works include Motherland (2017) about the world's busiest maternity hospital (in the Philippines) and the 2003 film Imelda, about the life of Imelda Marcos, former First Lady of the Philippines. Her film A Thousand Cuts will be featured on November 16.
LINGLING WEI
Senior China Correspondent
The Wall Street Journal
Lingling was based in The Wall Street Journal’s Beijing bureau from 2011 until China expelled Journal reporters in 2020. She and Bob Davis co-wrote Superpower Showdown, a history of the U.S.-China trade and economic stand-off, which HarperCollins nominated for a Pulitzer prize.
BOB DAVIS
Senior Editor
The Wall Street Journal
A Pulitzer Prize winner, Bob covers economic issues and continues to write about China, where he was posted from 2011 to 2014. Davis has served as the Journal’s bureau chief in Brussels, covering the European Union, and as the Latin America bureau chief. He and Lingling Wei co-wrote Superpower Showdown.
DENEEN BROWN
Professor, University of Maryland,
The Washington Post
DeNeen is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Maryland. As a features writer, she has written for The Washington Post for more than 35 years. She has worked as a foreign correspondent as well, with stories including reporting on climate change from the Arctic, the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, and on global indigenous cultures.
JULIE McCARTHY
Southeast Asia correspondent,
NPR News
Julie has spent most of her career traveling the world for NPR. She’s covered wars, prime ministers, presidents and paupers. One of NPR’s most experienced international correspondents, McCarthy opened the network’s Tokyo bureau and in an overseas career spanning 25 years, she’s covered Asia, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and South America.
CINDY OTIS
Author, True Or False: A CIA Analyst's Guide To Spotting Fake News
Cindy is a former CIA officer and an expert on disinformation threat analysis. She is also a Senior non-Resident Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab and an Associate at Argonne National Lab.
Dr. ALEXA KOENIG
Executive Director,
Human Rights Center
Alexa is returning from JUF 2019. She is the Executive Director of the Human Rights Center (winner of the 2015 MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions) and a lecturer at UC Berkeley’s School of Law. In 2016, she co-founded the first university-based investigations lab to train students and professionals to discover and verify human rights violations and potential war crimes using online open sources.
YVONNE ROLZHAUSEN
Research Chief, The Atlantic
Yvonne is the Research Chief at The Atlantic and the head of the fact-checking department. She started as an intern at the magazine while attending Tufts University and has been on the staff of Atlantic Media for over 27 years. Rolzhausen frequently lectures at various universities and overseas on checking and accuracy.
SANA ABED-KOTOB
Deputy Director, Office of International Visitors, US Department of State
Sana joined the Office of International Visitors (OIV) in 1999 and has served as Deputy Director since October 2019. Prior to joining State, she served as Associate Editor of the Middle East Journal and taught at the University of Maryland. She's pictured here speaking at Journalism under Fire 2018.
DAVID SCRASE, M.D.
Secretary for Health and Human Services Department,
New Mexico
David is a Professor of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. He is Board Certified Internist and Geriatrician, and previously served as the Interim Division Chief for General Internal Medicine and the Chief of Geriatrics at UNM.
SAMUEL SCARPINO
Network Epidemiologist
Northeastern University
Sam's work has been covered in a number of top media outlets including Scientific American, CNET, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and the Santa Fe Reporter. Sam did his postdoctoral fellowship at the Santa Fe Institute, and is now a member of its external faculty
RUSSELL CONTRERAS
Immigration, Race/Ethnicity Reporter
The Associated Press
Based in Albuquerque, Russ has reported for the AP for over twelve years. He'll moderate the November 12 panel with Wesley Lowery and Astead Herndon on Covering Social Crisis.
SARA DEL VALLE
Mathematical/Computational Epidemiologist
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Sara’s work has been covered in several top media outlets such as National Geographic, NPR Science Friday, BBC, Scientific American, Popular Mechanics, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Santa Fe New Mexican.
LAURA PASKUS
Environment Reporter
New Mexico PBS
Laura is an Albuquerque-based reporter who has covered environment issues in New Mexico since 2002. She will address climate change in NM in her talk.
LAUREN WALSH
Professor, The New School and New York University
Lauren teaches at The New School and NYU, where she is the Director of the Gallatin Photojournalism Lab. She is also the Director of Lost Rolls America, a national archive of photography and memory. Her new book is Conversations on Conflict Photography.
DR. COURTNEY RADSCH
Advocacy Director,
Committee to Protect Journalists
Courtney is chief spokesperson on global press freedom issues for CPJ and oversees its engagement with the United Nations, the Internet Governance Forum, and other multilateral institutions. She's returning from JUF 2018.
IVAN KOLPAKOV
Editor-in-Chief,
Meduza.io
​Returning from JUF 2019, Ivan is editor-in-chief at Meduza.io, a Russian media outlet based in Riga, Latvia. His presentation last year was one of the conference highlights.
HALEY WILLIS
Visual Investigations Reporter,
The New York Times
Haley has covered issues from the protests in Hong Kong to airstrikes in Libya to police violence in the United States. Prior to joining The Times, Haley worked as an open source researcher with the Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley.
SARAH CAHLAN
Visual Investigations Reporter,
The Washington Post
Sarah is a video reporter currently producing investigative mini-docs based primarily on open-source visuals for The Washington Post. She joined The Post in early 2019 as a video editor for the Fact Checker and became one of the founding members of the Visual Forensics team in September 2020.
HANNAH ALLAM
Investigative Reporter,
NPR News
Hannah is NPR's Washington-based national security correspondent, focusing on homegrown extremism. Returning for her third JUF experience, Hannah will lead a panel on The Determinants of Crisis.
OLGA YURKOVA
Journalist & Founder of
StopFake.org
Olga is returning from JUF 2018. She is a journalist and founder of StopFake, an organization launched in 2014 to combat false news reports coming out of Ukraine. StopFake is now an advanced fact-checking organization that covers media in 11 languages.
ELIZA BARCLAY
Science, Health, Climate Editor
Vox.com
Previous to her work with Vox.com, Eliza was a reporter and editor at NPR, and most recently edited the food blog, The Salt. As editor of The Salt, she received a James Beard Award, a Gracie Award, and an Association of Food Journalists Award.
JULIANA MORI
Journalist specializing in visualization of geospatial data
InfoAmazonia
Juliana co-founded InfoAmazonia, an independent media outlet that uses maps, data, and geolocalized reports to tell stories about the tropical forest over the nine Amazon countries.
FREDRICK MUGIRA
Water & Climate Change Journalist,
Uganda
Fredrick heads Water Journalists Africa, a network of over 700 journalists in 50 African countries who report on water. He also co-founded InfoNile, a geojournalism platform mapping data on water issues in the Nile River basin with journalism stories to promote transboundary peace.
NORA MORAGA-LEWY
Rainforest Journalism Manager
Pulitzer Center
Nora is passionate about the role of journalists and activists in tropical resource conservation and human rights protection, especially in the context of social conflict and economic development. Previously, Nora was a Research Associate at the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) and Fellow for the Kerry Initiative at Yale’s Jackson School of Global Affairs.
TIMOTHY PHILLIPS
CEO & Founder, Beyond Conflict
Tim has helped catalyze the peace and reconciliation processes in several nations, including Northern Ireland, El Salvador, and South Africa. He will speak on the panel, The Determinants of Crisis.
BEN FELDER
Senior Staff Writer
The Frontier (Oklahoma City)
In recent months, Ben has covered local protests against police brutality and President Trump’s Tulsa rally amid the COVID-19 pandemic. He will speak on the panel, The Determinants of Crisis.
ANGELA KOCHERGA
Staff writer for The Albuquerque Journal at the Las Cruces Bureau
Returning from JUF 2018, Angela is an award-winning multimedia journalist, public radio reporter, covering both sides of border & Mexico, living on the edge of TX, NM, Chihuahua
DUDLEY ALTHAUS
Independent Journalist,
Mexico City
Dudley has covered Mexico, Latin America and beyond for nearly three decades for the Wall Street Journal, Houston Chronicle, and others. He returns from JUF 2018.
GISELA PÉREZ de ACHA
Digital Forensics Journalist
Gisela is a trained human rights lawyer and teaches cybersecurity at the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley. She is also a Senior Reporter covering domestic extremism at the Investigative Reporting Program and an open source researcher documenting war crimes at the Human Rights Center Investigations Lab.
SHAUN GRISWOLD
Reporter, New Mexico in Depth
Shaun is Pueblo from Laguna, Jemez and Zuni, and grew up in Albuquerque. For New Mexico In Depth, Shaun reports on issues important to urban Indigenous people in Albuquerque, as well as tribal communities throughout New Mexico, including education, child welfare and more/
INEZ RUSSELL GOMEZ
Editorial Page Editor,
The Santa Fe New Mexican
Inez has been editorial page editor for The Santa Fe New Mexican since 2011. Her earlier career includes freelance work for People Magazine, editing The Taos News and reporting and editing jobs at newspapers in Texas, Florida and Washington, D.C., before returning home to New Mexico for good.
VERONIKA MUNK
Former Deputy Editor,
Index.hu
Veronika came to JUF 2018 as an Edward R. Murrow program participant, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. She'll share what she learned during that time, and how Hungary's press freedoms are currently under great threat.
MERCY KANDIE-TANUI
Broadcast Journalist
BBC Africa
A 2013 alumnus of the State Department's International Visitor Leadership Program, Mercy covers the continent's science and health stories.​
MIKE OKWOCHE
International Broadcast Journalist
Television Continental (TVC) - Lagos, Nigeria
An alumnus of the State Department's International Visitor Leadership Program, Mike is the Senior Anchor and Head of Anchors at TVC.
SZABOLCS PANYI
Investigative Journalist
Direkt36
Szabolcs covers national security, diplomacy, transatlantic relations for Direkt36, a non-profit investigative journalism center in Budapest, Hungary.
AGNES URBAN
Chair of the Infocommunications Department at the Corvinus University of Budapest
Agnes' main research areas are changes in media business models, trends in media consumption patterns, the evolution of the Hungarian media market and the analysis of policy issues concerning media markets.
ANDREA LAMPROS
Associate Director
Human Rights Center, UCBerkeley
Andrea co-founded the HRC Investigations Lab, the first university-based open source investigations effort of its kind. She leads the lab’s work on resiliency to secondary trauma and collaborations with journalists.
IGNACIO DELGADO CULEBRAS
Middle East and North Africa Representative, Committee to Protect Journalists
Prior to joining CPJ in 2017, Ignacio worked as a freelance journalist across the Middle East reporting on civil society, democratization and human rights for several outlets in Europe and the United States.
JULIA GOLDBERG
Senior Correspondent
The Santa Fe Reporter
Julia covers science and technology, among other topics. She served as the Reporter's editor from 2000 to 2011 and, in the intervening years, taught journalism and creative writing as a full-time faculty member at Santa Fe University of Art and Design. Julia is the author of Inside Story: Everyone Guide to Reporting and Writing Creative Nonfiction.
ANYA SCHIFFRIN
Director, Technology, Media & Communications, Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs
Anya is a lecturer who teaches on global media, innovation and human rights. She writes on journalism and development, investigative reporting in the global south and has published extensively over the last decade on the media in Africa.
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JANET STEELE
Professor,
George Washington University
​Returning for her third JUF experience, Janet will lend her extraordinary moderating skills once again. She is a professor of journalism and the director of the Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication. She received her Ph.D. in History from the Johns Hopkins University and focuses on how culture is communicated through the mass media.
Peter Baker &
Susan Glasser
ARLYSSA BECENTI
Reporter, Navajo Times
Arylssa is a Diné journalist originally from Fort Defiance, AZ. She has reported for Navajo Times since 2016, before which she reported for the daily Gallup Independent. At both publications she mainly reported on Navajo Tribal Government
TINA SUSMAN
Senior Editor,
TIME Magazine
Most recently, Tina was National Editor at BuzzFeed News, and brings nearly 25 years of experience as an editor and reporter. For the AP and Newsday, she oversaw and contributed coverage from throughout Africa. For the Los Angeles Times,Tina was Baghdad bureau chief.
KATINA PARON
Author, Editor
@DearTeenJournalist
Katina lives at the intersection of teens and journalism. She is the author of “A NewsHound’s Guide to Student Journalism” and was a senior project editor on The Trace’s award-winning gun violence series produced by youth reporters, “Since Parkland.” She has helped thousands of teens earn bylines in professional publications.
DR. JULIE POSETTI
Global Director of Research,
International Center for Journalists
Based in Oxford, England, Dr. Posetti researches and writes at the intersection of journalism safety, media freedom, media and gender, journalism and disinformation, and the digital transformation of journalism
DAVID MARASH
Podcaster, Radio Host
HERE AND THERE; KSFR
Dave is is an television journalist known for his work at ABC News and Al Jazeera English. He is the host of HERE AND THERE, a four-times-weekly series of 50-minute news interviews.
JENNIFER LUDDEN
Energy & Environment Editor,
NPR News
Jennifer helps edit energy and environment stories for NPR's National Desk, working with NPR staffers and a team of public radio reporters across the country. They track the shift to clean energy, state and federal policy moves, and how people and communities are coping with the mounting impacts of climate change.
SANDY CAMPBELL
Executive Director,
Santa Fe Council
on International Relations
Sandy is the Executive Director of SFCIR, and the host of this event. Join Sandy for fantastic conversations about Covering Crisis!
PATRICK TALAMANTES
Former CEO,
The McClatchy Company
A Santa Fe resident, Pat is a corporate executive with over 30 years of experience in media and finance. He runs a management consulting practice advising companies on transformational and financial strategies. Pat was the president and CEO of McClatchy, a news and information company in 30 local markets from 2012 to 2017.
