The 2017 Missouri-Hurley Symposium

Fact-Checking, Fake News and the Future of Political Reporting

What’s fact and what’s fake were questions that dominated the 2016 election campaign. Now that Donald J. Trump has been sworn in as the 45th U.S. president, what new challenges face journalists as they seek to cover the White House and Congress accurately and fairly?

Learn from White House correspondents, Washington bureau chiefs, fact-checking experts, media critics and two former White House officials about their strategies for covering the new administration. Also, get the results of a new public opinion survey on how the public perceives and reacts to “fake news.”

Thursday, March 9, 2017

8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. - Program

Speakers include:

• Elisabeth Bumiller, Washington bureau chief, The New York Times
• Barbara Cochran, Curtis B. Hurley Chair, Missouri School of Journalism
• Sam Feist, Washinton bureau chief, CNN
• Louis Jacobson, senior correspondent, PolitiFact
• Michelle Ye Hee Lee, reporter, Washington Post Fact Checker
• Jeff Mason, White House correspondent, Reuters & president, White House Correspondents Association
• Alexios Mantzarlis, director, International Fact-Checking Network
• Mike McCurry, Clinton White House press secretary
• John Roberts, chief White House correspondent, Fox News Channel
• Lori Robertson, managing editor, FactCheck.org
• Ed Rogers, former White House official, Reagan and Bush administrations
• Tom Rosenstiel, executive director, American Press Institute
• April Ryan, White House correspondent, American Urban Radio Networks
• Aaron Sharockman, executive director, PolitiFact
• Mizell Stewart III, vice president of news operations, USA Today Network & president, American Society of News Editors
• Margaret Sullivan, media columnist, The Washington Post

12:30-2 p.m. - Luncheon

Speaker: Major Garrett, chief White House correspondent, CBS News

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