NEW WAYS OF EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ABOUT EDUCATION:
How a top California journalist uses new media, and a PhD, to cover schooling, higher ed, and immigration.
Louis Freedberg, senior reporter and co-founder of California Watch at the Center for Investigative Reporting. In conversation with David Beers, UBC Graduate School of Journalism and editor of The Tyee.
Louis Freedberg is at the cutting edge of education reporting, covering one of North America’s most stressed school systems for the online project he co-invented: California Watch. He is well situated to address: What can educators do to matter more in the public conversation mediated by journalists? Can non-profit internet media fill the void left by hollowing out of corporate media content? What lessons from California might apply in BC, whose schools also face struggles over resources and serve a diverse student population? Is digital media improving or harming public engagement in politics and policy? California Watch, a new arm of the Centre for Investigative Reporting in Berkeley, is a non-profit that creates in-depth coverage and shares it to be published by multi-ethnic media around the state. freedberg brings to his education beat a ph.D in cultural anthropology and decades of experience, having created Youth News in Oakland, California, covered the revolution in South Africa, and worked as a lead reporter and editorial writer for the San Francisco Chronicle.
5-7 pm, Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Multipurpose Room, the Liu Institute for Global Issues, UBC
