Speakers Series
The Pulliam Center for Contemporary Media and DePauw's Media Fellows Program sponsor an ongoing Speakers Series which highlights various aspects of the media while also giving our students the chance to interact with working professionals and experts. These events are free and open to the public.
UPCOMING EVENTS
"The Importance of Media Literacy
in a Changing World"
Jared Jernagan, editor of Banner Graphic newspaper
Camika Jones, editor of The Indianapolis Recorder
Dr. Renee Thomas Woods, Host
12:30 p.m. in Watson Forum
October 25, 2024
recent events
Mike Sear '90
10 Tips for Landing your Dream Job
6:30 p.m. in Watson Forum
March 12, 2024
NORTH PUTNAM
A Documentary by international award-winning filmmaker Joel Fendelman
about Public Education and a rural Indiana community
October 12, 2023
JOHNNY MAGDALENO
Kilgore Councilor for The DePauw
Johnny Magdaleno covers courts and legal affairs for IndyStar. He and two of his IndyStar colleagues were Pulitzer Prize finalists in 2022. Prior to joining the Star he worked as a freelance reporter in the U.S. and abroad for the New York Times, Al Jazeera, VICE News, Reuters, Newsweek and others.
October 11-12, 2023
NOLAN HIGDON
Nolan Higdon is an author and university lecturer at Merrill College and the Education Department at University of California, Santa Cruz. Higdon’s areas of concentration include podcasting, digital culture, news media history, and critical media literacy.
Digital Disinfowars:
A Critical Media Literacy Approach to Media Making and Disinformation
March 21, 2023
THOMAS MORTON
Participatory Journalism
Writer and television host - VICE
March 2, 2023
THE JANES
THE JANES is the story of an underground network of women in Chicago in the late 60s and early 70s who provided safe, affordable, illegal abortions to women in need.
Viewing and Talk with co-director Emma Tildes
Emmy Nominated Filmmaker
Co-sponsored by the PCCM, Feminista,
The Women's Center, and Media Fellows
November 3, 2022
ART SILVERBLATT
MEDIA LITERACY AS A CRITICAL THINKING
SKILL IN TODAY'S POPULAR CULTURE
Co-sponsored by the PCCM and Media Fellows
October 25, 2022
Eric Harvey
"Who Got The Camera? A History of Rap and Reality"
Associate Professor in the School of Communications,
Grand Valley State University
Thursday, October 6, 2022
Dexter Thomas
Japanese Rap Music and Remixing The News
Dexter Thomas is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, and a correspondent for VICE News.
Co-sponsored with Media Fellows and The Tenzer Technology Center
Tuesday, September 13, 2022
Ian Daniel '04
Film maker and Emmy-nominated Producer
Earth Week Speaker
“Environmental Justice means Racial Justice:
Grassroots Movements, Indigenous Solutions,
and Storytelling for Social Change”
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
Dave Jorgenson '13
Video Producer and the face of
The Washington Post Tik Tok Account
Watson Forum
Saturday, February 26, 2022
Man On Fire - Screening and Q&A
Filmmakers Joel Fendelman and
James Chase Sanchez
Peeler Art Center
Wednesday, September 1, 2021
Can’t Touch This: Media, Innovation, and
Entrepreneurship in the
Intangible Economy
Stan McCoy '93
President and Managing Director of the
Motion Picture Association
EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa)
April 15, 2021
Moon's The U.S. Civil Rights Trail: A Traveller's Guide to the
People,Places, and Events that Made the Movement.
Deborah Douglas
Eugene S. Pulliam Distinguished
Visiting Professor of Journalism
View interview on cbs4
watch here
February 25, 2021
"Why Local TV Journalism Matters: A Conversation
with Suzanne Spencer '14 and Zach Crenshaw '14"
- Suzanne Spencer '14, Fox 6, Milwaukee
- Zach Crenshaw '14, ABC 15, Phoenix
hosted by Dr. Jonathan Nichols Pethick,
Director of Media Fellows, and Marilyn Culler,
Assoc. Director of Media Fellows
November 12, 2020
Advertising, Public Relations and Media Sales
Industry Event
- Jon Coffin ’06, SVP, Vox Global
- Holly Enneking ’08, VP Marketing, Lev
- Adam Gilbert '10, Head of Partnerships and
Performance at Initiative and Initiative Wellness
- Grant Walters ’16, Senior Brand Planner,
Weber Shandwick
October 29, 2020
Covid-19 and the Media: How Media Coverage
has Affected Americans
A virtual panel discussion featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning
New York Times reporter Jim Stewart '73; Pulliam Distinguished Visiting Professor of Journalism Deborah Douglas; Joan Konner Visiting Professor at Columbia School of Journalism Graduate School Meg Kissinger Boynton '79; Director of the Pulliam Center for Contemporary Media and Director of Media Fellows Jonathan Nichols Pethick; and current students Ian Brundige '22 and Thomas Curdt '22.
Watch Here
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
Believed: An Evening with
Lindsey Smith and Kate Wells
Join the hosts of the Peabody Award winning podcast
"Believed" from Michigan Public Radio.
"Believed" is an inside look at how a team of women won
a conviction in the case against Larry Nassar, one of
the largest serial sexual abuse cases in U.S. history.
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Brandon Smith
Investigative Journalist, ProPublica
"Journalism, Government Accountability, and the Future of
'Muckrakery': Finding a New Model"
Monday, October 7, 2019
Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan
Director of the Center for Media and Citizenship
Media Studies Department
University of Virginia
"Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and
Undermines Democracy"
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Dick Johnson '76
Anchor/Reporter, NBC Chicago
McWethy Mentor for WGRE and D3TV
March 17-21, 2019
John Strauss
Digital Audience Growth Editor
Lumina Foundation
Indianapolis, IN
Kilgore Counselor for The DePauw
March 10-13, 2019
a selection of past speakers
 Dr. Amanda Lotz '96
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 The kerner commission 50
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 Sen. Richard Lugar
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 indira lakshmanan
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 Lisa frazier page
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JIll Frederickson '92
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david dietz '11
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 ruben casteneda
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 Joe Lavine
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 John Fortt
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 Ann Helen Petersen
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 Mike Sear
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Larry Krutchik
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Brian Lamb
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Drew Powell '98
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Dr. Lisa M. Pratt
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Candy Crowley
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Bill Rasmussen '54
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Chinonye Chukwu '07
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MIranda spivack