Join us on January 14 for a virtual free town hall where our panel of experts will discuss the impact of misinformation and the power of social media. There is an opportunity to ask questions live throughout the event.

Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89677135562

RUSSELL CHUN: assistant professor in the Department of Journalism, Media Studies, and Public Relations at the Lawrence Herbert School of Communication at Hofstra University, where he teaches multimedia, design, and data journalism. His research interests are in visual communication and data visualization. His research has appeared in Visual Communication Quarterly and the Journal of Visual Literacy, and is co-editor of the book Fake News: Real Issues in Modern Communication.

HOWARD SCHNEIDER: Executive Director of Stony Brook University's Center for News Literacy, the former Founding Dean of the university's School of Journalism and the former editor of Newsday. Under his tenure as managing editor and then editor, the paper won eight Pulitzer Prizes. In 2007, Schneider developed the nation's first undergraduate course in News Literacy, designed to teach students how to identify reliable news and information. Since, the course has been taught to more than 11,000 Stony Brook students and the curriculum has been adopted by more than two dozen other U.S. universities and by academics in 15 countries. In 2018, Schneider and his colleagues, convinced that instruction had to begin much earlier, created the Institute for News Literacy Education to support the work of the region's K-12 school districts. In 2012, Schneider was the recipient of the DeWitt Carter Reddick Award for Public Communications and Journalism Education by the University of Texas, In 2003, he was the recipient of the Outstanding Alumnus Award of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism (MS'67).

CRAIG M. BURNETT, Ph.D..: Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Hofstra University, Director, Kalikow School Poll Program. Dr. Burnett received his B.A. in political science and history from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on state and local government, urban politics, political behavior, and electoral institutions. His research has appeared in several journals including The Journal of Politics, Political Behavior, Political Communication, Electoral Studies, Urban Affairs Review, and the Minnesota Law Review. Professor Burnett teaches courses on American government, urban politics, state and local government, public opinion, political behavior as well as research methods and statistics.