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Monitor Night Live

Description

"Can We Trust the Media? Journalism in an Unfiltered Social Media World" is the topic of this year's Monitor Night Live. The discussion will strive to enhance media literacy by delving into trust, honesty, and nuance in journalism. Join College President John Williams in a conversation with The Christian Science Monitor Editor Mark Sappenfield and correspondents Story Hinckley, Stephanie Hanes, and Noah Robertson.

Speakers

Mark Sappenfield joined the Monitor in 1996 and has since written from Boston, San Francisco, the Pentagon, and India. In addition to reporting from Pakistan and Afghanistan during his time in South Asia, Mark has also written on issues of sports and science. He has covered seven Olympic Games and attended events at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, including the landing of the Mars rover Opportunity. After returning to Boston in 2009, Mark served as both deputy national news editor and national news editor.

Story Hinckley, a Washington, DC-based national correspondent specializing in politics, comes to Monitor Night Live fresh from the 2022 Iowa caucuses. Story began at the Monitor in 2015 as an intern and then served as the Monitor’s Paul S. Deland Fellow in 2016 before coming on staff. She holds a BA from the University of Virginia with double majors in political science and environmental thought and practice and has a master’s degree in journalism from Northeastern University.

Stephanie Hanes Wilson is the Monitor's environment and climate change writer. After covering justice for both The Concord Monitor and The Baltimore Sun, she began writing for the Monitor as a correspondent from southern Africa in the mid 2000s. There, she took particular interest in the many intersections of development, conflict, conservation, and culture. Her environmental reporting in Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and elsewhere led to her book, "White Man's Game: Saving Animals, Rebuilding Eden and other Myths of Conservation in Africa" (Henry Holt/Macmillan, 2017).

From the US, Hanes has written broadly on subjects ranging from climate and the environment to education, families, food, and farming. She has been an Alicia Patterson fellow and a multiple-time grant recipient from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. She holds teaching positions at Yale University's School of the Environment and The College of William & Mary.

Noah Robertson spent his first 20 years in and around Williamsburg, Virginia—an eclectic colonial town home to his college and most of his family. After a stint at the Monitor's Boston office, he returned to his home state for the DC Sperling Fellowship and now works in the Washington Bureau. Noah's reporting interests sprawl more than they focus, covering blind sailors in the Boston harbor to nascent secessionists on the West Virginia border. Noah enjoys reading, basketball, playing (and often losing) chess, and crossword puzzles. Give him a call if you ever want to talk James Baldwin or E.B. White.

Event Details

Thursday, February 24, 7:30 p.m. CST
Wanamaker Hall, Principia College