{"id":44396,"date":"2021-02-18T11:26:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T16:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=44396"},"modified":"2021-02-18T16:00:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T21:00:28","slug":"riding-the-zoom-wagon-journalism-in-a-time-of-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2021\/02\/riding-the-zoom-wagon-journalism-in-a-time-of-crisis.html","title":{"rendered":"Riding the Zoom Wagon<\/em> <\/font>
‘Journalism in a Time of Crisis’<\/font><\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The New York Review of Books<\/em>  will present a discussion about the ways contemporary journalism has addressed moments of political and social crisis. The program, presented with the Community Bookstore, is scheduled for Feb. 24 at 7:30 p.m., featuring Justine van der Leun, Howard French, Elizabeth Bruenig, Mark Danner, and Darryl Pinckney. Register here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left:<\/em> Mark Danner, Elizabeth Bruenig, Howard French, Justine van der Leun, Darryl Pinckney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Per NYRB<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Justine van der Leun<\/strong> is an independent journalist, an author, and a fellow at Type Media Center. Her most recent book is We Are Not Such Things: The Murder of a Young American, a South African Township, and the Search for Truth and Reconciliation, <\/em>published in 2016).<\/p>

Howard W. French<\/strong> is a career foreign correspondent and global affairs writer and the author of four books, including three works of non-fiction, a work of documentary photography. His most recent non-fiction book, titled Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China\u2019s Push for Global Power<\/em>, was published in 2017.<\/p>

Elizabeth \u201cLiz\u201d Bruenig<\/strong>, a native Texan, graduated from Brandeis in 2013 and earned her Master\u2019s of Philosophy in Christian theology at Cambridge University.  In 2016 she joined The Washington Post, where she worked through a hectic election season and commissioned the section\u2019s most-read articles. Two years later Bruenig became a columnist in the Post\u2019s Opinion section and was a finalist in feature writing for the 2019 Pulitzer Prizes. In 2020 she joined The New York Time<\/em>s as an opinion writer.<\/p>

Mark Danner <\/strong>is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books<\/em> and a former staff writer at the New Yorker<\/em> and has covered foreign affairs and politics for three decades. He is the author of The Massacre at El Mozote<\/em>, Torture and Truth<\/em>, Stripping Bare the Body<\/em> and Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War,<\/em> among other books. A MacArthur Fellow, he teaches at Berkeley and at Bard.<\/p>

Darryl Pinckney<\/strong>, also a regular NYRB<\/em> contributor, is the author of two novels, High Cotton<\/em> and Black Deutschland<\/em>, and three works of non-fiction, Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature<\/em>, Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy<\/em>, and Busted in New York and Other Essays<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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