Kat Eschner
affordability reporter TVO
Corey Powell
co-founder OpenMind magazine
Ben Rein
postdoctoral scholar in neuroscience Stanford University
Seema Yasmin
director Stanford Health Communication Initiative
This panel will feature a conversation about the many urgent challenges of scientific misinformation and the role journalists might play in exposing and countering pseudoscience and science denialism. Attendees will hear perspectives on misinformation in mass media and societal and journalistic techniques for covering misinformation. Attendees will also learn about a new Pulitzer Center grant opportunity for innovative journalism projects that tackle science denial and misinformation.
Sponsored by Pulitzer Center and HHMI’s Science and Educational Media Group.
