A new event series for Hubbard School students
Students: Join the Hubbard School community for our first-ever Marc I. Yarosh Lecture in journalism ethics.
In this new annual lecture series, you'll have the opportunity to engage with professionals working across the journalism industry on some of the complex ethical issues they find themselves navigating in their work.
Planning to join us? Please RSVP to let us know you'll be there
This year, we'll hear from New York Times correspondent Ernesto Londoño, about his experience covering political violence in Minnesota this summer.
Hubbard student — and Minnesota Daily editor-in-chief — Alexis Letang will lead the conversation with Ernesto. They'll be joined by professor Gayle (G.G.) Golden for additional questions.
We'll make sure there's plenty of time for folks in the audience to engage in the conversation, too.
- Date: Thursday, Nov. 13
- Time: 3:30 p.m. pizza social; 4:15 p.m. talk
- Location: Murphy 100
- RSVP: Please RSVP by 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 12, to let us know you'll be joining!
About the speaker
Ernesto Londoño is a correspondent on the National desk of The New York Times, where he has worked since 2014. (Read more about Ernesto, including his reporting interests and how to reach him, on his Times bio page.)
He is the author of Trippy: The Promise and Perils of Medicinal Psychedelics, a book that blends memoir and reportage to take readers inside a wondrous field that straddles spirituality and health care.
Ernesto joined The Times as an editorial writer, where he focused on foreign policy. He later served as the newspaper’s Brazil bureau chief in Rio de Janeiro, where an episode of depression became the catalyst of his personal and professional interest in psychedelics.
Earlier in his career, Ernesto worked at The Washington Post, where his assignments included covering the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and The Pentagon.
Ernesto was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia, during a period of armed conflict and political turbulence fueled by the war on drugs. He moved to the United States for college in 1999 and moved around a lot over the years, having called Miami, Dallas, Washington D.C., Baghdad, Cairo, New York and Rio de Janeiro home.
In early 2022, he moved to Saint Paul, where he lives in a quiet neighborhood near the Mississippi River with his husband, Steven, a veterinarian, and their dog, Hugo, a Brazilian rescue who is not a fan of Minnesota winters.
About the hosts
Alexis Letang is the editor-in-chief of The Minnesota Daily, and a fourth-year journalism student at the Hubbard School.
She is spending a semester working with the Minnesota Star Tribune's food and culture team.
Before being named editor-in-chief of the Daily, she served as the paper's arts and entertainment editor and as a reporter. She began working at the Daily as an intern for the paper's campus administration desk.
In addition to writing, she loves reading, caffeine, YouTube videos and movies.
Gayle (G.G.) Golden is a senior lecturer, Charnley Professor and Morse-Alumni Distinguished University Teacher at the Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication. For two decades, she has coordinated practicum classes that place students in newsrooms in the Twin Cities for embedded educational experiences to launch them into careers.
She also coordinates summer placements for students in news organizations serving marginalized communities in urban areas and serving rural communities in outstate Minnesota through a developing news initiative known as Report for Minnesota.
Golden joined the university in 1998 as a part-time instructor and was hired as a full-time lecturer in 2004. She has been a professional journalist since 1983, working at the Dallas Morning news for nearly a decade as a science writer and amassing many awards for that work. Since 1990, she has been a freelancer on a range of topics, notably health and medicine, and continues to work as a freelancer with articles published in regional and national publications, including Texas Monthly and The New York Times.
Event sponsor
The Hubbard School is grateful to the family of Marc I. Yarosh for sponsoring this event.