Dan Kennedy reviewed Margot Susca's book Hedged: How Private Investment Funds Helped Destroy American Newspapers and Undermine Democracy writing, "Susca has done a daunting amount of research, poring over financial records and filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. That research enabled her to delve deeply into the chain owners she writes about in order to describe what’s taking place beneath the surface." The full review, which ran this week in The Arts Fuse, is here and also ran on Kennedy's Media Nation blog. Kennedy is a professor of journalism at Northeastern University in Boston.
IRW Executive Editor and Journalism Professor Wesley Lowery delivered the keynote speech at the “Hear Our Voices” annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration at the Maltz Museum in Northeast Ohio, a museum dedicated to building bridges of tolerance and understanding by sharing Jewish heritage through the lens of the American experience. Wesley’s speech was followed by an audience Q&A and signing his book, “American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress.” Cleveland.com and the Cleveland Jewish News covered the event that hundreds attended. Additionally, this week Reveal broadcast Wes’s story of Ernest Withers in an adaptation of the podcast “Unfinished: Ernie’s Secret,” from Scripps News and Stitcher. Withers took some of the most iconic photos of the civil rights movement, earning the trust of Dr. King and other civil rights leaders, all while he also was secretly taking photos for the federal government.
At the end of last year, the SOC Communication & Outreach Team went through all of SOC's events, podcast episodes & YouTube videos, new stories, and "in case you missed it" moments to pull the top 5 from every category based on turn out, streams, reads, and likes. The Comm & Outreach team worked closely with over 25 AU centers, programs, and student organizations both in and outside of SOC – while the list does not include everything that the team has accomplished in 2023, we do thank everyone for your collaboration and efforts. Special thank you to the following organizations, faculty, and staff whose work made it into our inaugural SOC Wrapped: SOC's Advancement Team, SOC3, Center for Media and Social Impact (CMSI), Investigative Reporting Workshop, Anacostia Youth Media, American University Kennedy Political Union, American University's Model UN Conference, SOC's DEI Committee, AU PRSSA, Interim Dean Leena Jayaswal, Jane Hall, Pallavi Kumar, Sherri Williams, Brigid Maher, Wesley Lowery, Priya Doshi, Gemma Puglisi, Caty Borum, Filippo Trevisan, Sarah Menke-Fish, Lindsay Zimnoch, Victoria Black, Pamela Roberts, Tia Milledge, Kati Vera, Grace Ibrahim, Veronica Castro, and Raven Heurtelou. Click here to view SOC Wrapped.
