Silha Professor Jane Kirtley, Together with HSJMC Senior Fellow Scott Libin, Hosts Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists

On September 23, 2022, together with HSJMC Senior Fellow Scott Libin, Silha Prof. Jane Kirtley hosted the Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists fellows who were taking part in the U.S. State Department's International Visitor Leadership Program. The participants were print and broadcast journalists from 16 different countries including Armenia, Bangladesh, Croatia, Ethiopia, Malaysia and South Africa. They discussed topics including  the history and importance of press freedom in the United States; the structure, practices, and future of broadcast journalism in the United States; how new technologies shape the way news is gathered, reported, distributed, and consumed; and the crucial role of responsibility and accuracy in reporting in a democracy.