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The Santa Fe Council on International Relations (CIR) will host its third Journalism under Fire conference from November 10 to December 3, 2020. All digital for the first time, this year’s theme is Covering Crisis and will feature leading journalists, photojournalists, political cartoonists, academics and activists. Together, they’ll address, dissect, and illustrate how journalism is covering today’s overlapping crises – all on the heels of the coming U.S. elections.
There will be at least four remote sessions per week, beginning on November 10th 2020 with a star-studded Grand Opening Event, and concluding on December 3rd 2020. Conference dialogue will feature:
- The many ways journalism has covered crisis – and how these crises have, in turn, shaped journalism. Specific topics include: Covering up Crisis? Conservative Media and the Coronavirus. Discovering Crisis: Digital Forensics and Social Protest. A Covert Crisis: The Fuel of Disinformation. The Forgotten Crisis? Photojournalists and Climate Change.
- Journalists from around the world discussing the effects of coronavirus, and how autocrats have used the crisis to crack down on journalism.
- Student Learning Labs affording New Mexico students interactive access to conference speakers. This year, CIR is creating five News Literacy Modules for classroom use, each offering a vibrant view on major journalism principles and issues – e.g. on disinformation, on separating fact from opinion – alongside a compendium of resources written by conference speakers.
Once again, we will partner with the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP), and receive funding support from the New Mexico Humanities Council. We’ll engage speakers from The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other major national and global media outlets.
