Faultlines and Deadlines: Rebuilding Trust in Journalism in the Age of Misinformation

Dean Jelani Cobb delivers a keynote at CGC Amman on fact-checking, hate speech and misinformation.

January 24, 2025

In January 2025, Columbia Global Center Amman hosted Faultlines and Deadlines: Rebuilding Trust in Journalism in the Age of Misinformation. This enriching event featured a keynote address by Jelani Cobb, Dean and Henry R. Luce Professor of Journalism at the Columbia Journalism School, who offered a nuanced analysis of the challenges and opportunities facing journalism today. Opening remarks were delivered by Wafaa El-Sadr, Executive Vice President for Columbia Global, who also moderated a dynamic Q&A session with the audience.

The twenty-first century media landscape has been defined by a series of overlapping economic, technological and social challenges. The talk explores the roots of those disruptions, their implications for contemporary journalism and explore the roads we may take to a more sustainable future for the field.

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