Dartmouth Events

Student coffee hour with Journalist Karin Pettersson

Guest speaker: Karin Pettersson, 2017 Nieman-Berkman Fellow in Journalism Innovation, Nieman Foundation at Harvard; Political Editor-in-Chief, Aftonbladet

5/15/2017
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Morrison Commons, Rockefeller Center
Intended Audience(s): Students-Graduate, Students-Undergraduate
Categories: Free Food

Coffee hour sign up: https://coffeehourkarinpettersson.eventbrite.com

Ms. Pettersson will be giving the Bernard D. Nossiter '47 Lecture, "Disrupted Discourse: Political Polarization, Propaganda, and the Fragility of Democracy," at 5:00-6:00 pm in Rocky 003.

Karin Pettersson is the political editor-in-chief at Aftonbladet, Scandinavia’s biggest daily newspaper. She is also the co-founder and former editor-in-chief of Fokus, Sweden’s leading newsmagazine. During her time at Fokus, the publication won one of Sweden’s most prestigious awards for reinventing political journalism. At Aftonbladet, she has quadrupled the readership of the editorial page and started a new digital brand for editorial journalism online. Pettersson won the European Newspaper Award for a series about Roma people in Stockholm. She is the 2017 Nieman-Berkman Fellow in Journalism Innovation.

 

For more information, contact:
Joanne Needham
603-646-2207

Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.