Speakers Series

The Pulliam Center for Contemporary Media and 天美传媒's Media Fellows Program sponsor an ongoing Speakers Series which highlights various aspects of the media while also giving our students the chance to interact with working professionals and experts. These events are free and open to the public.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Media Literacy Panel

"The Importance of Media Literacy

in a Changing World"

Jared Jernagan, editor of Banner Graphic newspaper
 Camika Jones, editor of The Indianapolis Recorder
Dr. Renee Thomas Woods, Host

12:30 p.m. in Watson Forum
October 25, 2024

 

recent events

Mike Sear '90

Mike Sear '90

10 Tips for Landing your Dream Job

6:30 p.m. in Watson Forum
March 12, 2024

 

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NORTH PUTNAM

A Documentary by international award-winning filmmaker Joel Fendelman
about Public Education and a rural Indiana community

October 12, 2023

 

Johnny Magdaleno

JOHNNY MAGDALENO

Kilgore Councilor for The 天美传媒

Johnny Magdaleno covers courts and legal affairs for IndyStar. He and two of his IndyStar colleagues were Pulitzer Prize finalists in 2022. Prior to joining the Star he worked as a freelance reporter in the U.S. and abroad for the New York Times, Al Jazeera, VICE News, Reuters, Newsweek and others.

October 11-12, 2023

 

Higdon

NOLAN HIGDON

Nolan Higdon is an author and university lecturer at Merrill College and the Education Department at University of California, Santa Cruz. Higdon’s areas of concentration include podcasting, digital culture, news media history, and critical media literacy. 

Digital Disinfowars:
A Critical Media Literacy Approach to Media Making and Disinformation

March 21, 2023

  

Thomas Morton - Vice

THOMAS MORTON

Participatory Journalism

Writer and television host - VICE

March 2, 2023

 

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THE JANES

THE JANES is the story of an underground network of women in Chicago in the late 60s and early 70s who provided safe, affordable, illegal abortions to women in need.

Viewing and Talk with co-director Emma Tildes
Emmy Nominated Filmmaker

 

Co-sponsored by the PCCM, Feminista,
The Women's Center, and Media Fellows

November 3, 2022

 

Art Silverblatt

ART SILVERBLATT

MEDIA LITERACY AS A CRITICAL THINKING
SKILL IN TODAY'S POPULAR CULTURE

Co-sponsored by the PCCM and Media Fellows

October 25, 2022

 

Eric Harvey

Eric Harvey

"Who Got The Camera?  A History of Rap and Reality"

Associate Professor in the School of Communications, 
Grand Valley State University

Thursday, October 6, 2022  

 

Dexter Thomas

Dexter Thomas

Japanese Rap Music and Remixing The News

Dexter Thomas is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, and a correspondent for VICE News.

Co-sponsored with Media Fellows and The Tenzer Technology Center

Tuesday, September 13, 2022   

 

Ian Daniel

Ian Daniel '04

Film maker and Emmy-nominated Producer

Earth Week Speaker

 “Environmental Justice means Racial Justice:
Grassroots Movements, Indigenous Solutions,
and Storytelling for Social Change”

Wednesday, April 20, 2022 

 

Dave Jorgenson
Dave Jorgenson '13

Video Producer and the face of
The Washington Post Tik Tok Account

 

Watson Forum

 

Saturday, February 26, 2022 

 

Man On Fire
Man On Fire - Screening and Q&A 

Filmmakers Joel Fendelman and 
James Chase Sanchez

 

Peeler Art Center

 

Wednesday, September 1, 2021 

 

Stan McCoy '93

Can’t Touch This: Media, Innovation, and
Entrepreneurship 
in the
Intangible Economy

 

Stan McCoy '93
President and Managing Director of the
Motion Picture Association 
 (Europe, Middle East, Africa)

 

April 15, 2021

 

Siva Vaidhyanathan

Moon's The U.S. Civil Rights Trail: A Traveller's Guide to the
People,Places, and 
Events that Made the Movement.

 

Deborah Douglas
Eugene S. Pulliam Distinguished
Visiting Professor of Journalism
 

 

 

 

February 25, 2021

 

 TV Journalism Panel - Suzanne Spencer '14 and Zach Crenshaw '14

"Why Local TV Journalism Matters: A Conversation
with
Suzanne Spencer '14 and Zach Crenshaw '14"

 

- Suzanne Spencer '14, Fox 6, Milwaukee
- Zach Crenshaw '14, ABC 15, Phoenix
hosted by Dr. Jonathan Nichols Pethick,
Director of Media Fellows, and Marilyn Culler,
Assoc. Director of Media Fellows 

November 12, 2020

 

Advertising, PR, Media Sales Industry Event

Advertising, Public Relations and Media Sales
Industry Event

 

- Jon Coffin ’06, SVP, Vox Global
- Holly Enneking ’08, VP Marketing, Lev
- Adam Gilbert '10, Head of Partnerships and 
Performance at Initiative and Initiative Wellness
- Grant Walters ’16, Senior Brand Planner,
Weber Shandwick

 

October 29, 2020

 

Covid and Media Panel

Covid-19 and the Media: How Media Coverage
has
Affected Americans

A virtual panel discussion featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning 
New York Times reporter Jim Stewart '73; Pulliam Distinguished Visiting Professor of Journalism Deborah Douglas; Joan Konner Visiting Professor at Columbia School of Journalism Graduate School Meg Kissinger Boynton '79; Director of the Pulliam Center for Contemporary Media and Director of Media Fellows Jonathan Nichols Pethick; and current students Ian Brundige '22 and Thomas Curdt '22.

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

 

Believed

Believed:  An Evening with 
Lindsey Smith and Kate Wells

Join the hosts of the Peabody Award winning podcast  
"Believed" from Michigan Public Radio.

"Believed" is an inside look at how a team of women won   
a conviction in the case against Larry Nassar, one of 
the largest serial sexual abuse cases in U.S. history.

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

 

Brandon Smith

Brandon Smith

Investigative Journalist, ProPublica

"Journalism, Government Accountability, and the Future of 
'Muckrakery': Finding a New Model"

Monday, October 7, 2019

 

Siva Vaidhyanathan

Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan

Director of the Center for Media and Citizenship
Media Studies Department
University of Virginia

   "Antisocial Media:  How Facebook Disconnects Us and     
Undermines Democracy"

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

 

Dick Johnson '76

Dick Johnson '76
Anchor/Reporter, NBC Chicago

         McWethy Mentor for WGRE and D3TV            

March 17-21, 2019

 

      John Strauss     

John Strauss
Digital Audience Growth Editor
Lumina Foundation
Indianapolis, IN

Kilgore Counselor for The 天美传媒

March 10-13, 2019

 

a selection of past speakers

Dr. Amanda Lotz '96

Dr. Amanda Lotz '96
prof. of communication
studies, Univ. of Michigan

The Kerner Commission 

The kerner commission 50 
years on:  miles to go

Lugar and Hamilton 

Sen. Richard Lugar
Rep. Lee Hamilton

Lakshmanan

indira lakshmanan
Washington columnist,
the boston globe

 

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Lisa frazier page
best-selling author

Craig Silverman

Craig Silverman
Media editor, buzzfeed

Jill Frederickson

JIll Frederickson '92
US NEWS AND WORLD REPORT

Kate Domaille
Kate Domaille
IES Study Abroad, London

David Dietz, Bess Evans, Duncan Wolfe

david dietz '11
bess evans '07
Duncan wolfe '11
The White house

Reuban Casteneda

ruben casteneda
US News and world report

Joe Lavine

Joe Lavine
Educator, profoto US

Ben Solomon, New York Times

Ben Solomon '10
New York Times

John Fortt

John Fortt
CNBC

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Ann Helen Petersen
Buzzfeed news

Mike Sear, Teamworks

Mike Sear
teamworks media

Graham Jones, Spotify
Graham James
Spotify

Miranda SpivackMIranda spivack
Pulliam distinguished professor

Larry Krutchik

Larry Krutchik
Hill+KNowlton Strategies

Brian Lamb

Brian Lamb
C-SPAN Founder

Drew Powell

Drew Powell '98
TV and Film Actor

Dr. Lisa M. Pratt

Dr. Lisa M. Pratt
Chair, NASA Mars Exploration Analysis Group

Cindy Crowley

Candy Crowley
CNN Chief Political Correspondent

Bill Rasmussen

Bill Rasmussen '54
ESPN Founder

Chinonye Chukwu

Chinonye Chukwu '07
Writer, Film Director