Join us for a discussion with four newsroom leaders. Learn what they are doing to connect to their communities and how they are covering the growing movement to defend our democracy.

Our distinguished panelists are:

• Akash Mehta, Editor-in-Chief of New York Focus

• Donna Ladd, Founder, ED, and Editor of Mississippi Free Press

• Nina Misuraca Ignaczak, Founder and Editor of Planet Detroit

• Angela Kuper Copeland, Editor, The Paper, Morganton NC

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Ann Telnaes is a Pulitzer-winning editorial cartoonist and vocal advocate for press freedom. We will discuss the role and power of editorial cartoonists in democracies - and how we can support and better appreciate their work. She recently resigned from the Washington Post when a cartoon of hers depicting Post owner Jeff Bezos bowing to President Trump was infamously rejected by her editor. 8pm ET.

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Who will control the future of America’s news ecosystem: Wall Street billionaires concerned only with profit, or those who see journalism as an essential public service, the lifeblood of our democracy?

Join us for a virtual screening of Stripped For Parts followed by a Q&A with director Rick Goldsmith. Then be empowered with actions you can take to fight for local journalism! 8-10:30pm ET.

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Journalist and editor, Eric Beecher, joins us to discuss his powerful new book, The Men Who Killed The News: The Inside Story of How Media Moguls Abused Their Power, Manipulated Truth, and Distorted Democracy. He will share his experiences working for and tangling with Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch and discuss the history of abuse of power by media owners. 8pm ET.

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A conversation and Q&A with Malcolm Turnbull, former Prime Minister of Australia. 8pm ET.

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Join us for a lively discussion and Q&A with Media Matters for America’s Senior Fellow Matt Gertz. The discussion will center on the Murdoch media empire and the role that Fox News is playing in bolstering right-wing narratives ahead of the upcoming election. 8pm ET.

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Screening followed by discussion of actions you can take to fight back against Fox propaganda with special guest TruthTuesdays.org - the most effective protest group against Fox/Murdochs/Newscorp.

Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism is a 2004 documentary that exposes the pervasive bias of the Fox News Channel, and its owner Rupert Murdoch, that contradicts its claim of being "Fair and Balanced". It is urgent that Americans wake up the manipulation and harm Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes intentionally built into "Fox" media properties. Director Robert Greenwald; Stars: Douglas Cheek, Walter Cronkite, Bob McChesney.​

Margaret Sullivan joins us for a conversation and Q&A about the role pro-democracy journalism has to play in fighting the fascist threat at our doorstep - and how we can help. Ms. Sullivan is an author, journalist, and the former Public Editor of the New York Times.

Fascism is on the rise in our country as Nazis parade through our streets and candidates for office issue calls to violence. Professor Ben-Ghiat, an expert on the "strongman" playbook, joins us to discuss the role journalism has to play in defending democracy against authoritarian demagogues.

With one party becoming authoritarian and promoting dangerous lies, “both-sidesism” has become a threat to our democracy. Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org) joined us to discuss how the media should respond to, and cover, the current threats of MAGA extremism.

Gigi Sohn, a recent nominee of President Biden for the Federal Communication Commission, discussed how her nomination was sabotaged by Big Telecom, dark money, right wing extremist groups, and media oligarchs, as well as other issues shaping media and democracy. 

Gigi Sohn is one of the nation’s leading public advocates for open, affordable and democratic communications networks.

Robert McChesney, Professor of Communication at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign joined us for an engaging discussion and Q&A about proposed solutions to the crisis of local journalism and media diversity.

Andrea Chalupa, author / screenwriter of "Mr. Jones" and co-host of the podcast Gaslit Nation . Streamed screening of "Mr. Jones" followed by Q&A with Andrea.

Nandini Jammi, co-founder Sleeping Giants and Check-My-Ads. Pioneer activist in defunding hate-for-profit and disinformation via adtech and brand awareness.

Peter Shaplen, Journalist, AP Mark Twain Award winner, (co-hosted with Secure Elections Network).

U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, author of The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court, (co-hosted with Blue-Wave Brigade).

Katharina Gellein Viken, co-director People You May Know, an exploration into the political alliance among religious fundamentalists, oligarchs, and Cambridge Analytica's shell companies that have fundamentally shifted the balance of politics in the United States.

Anne Nelson, author of Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right.

Robert W. McChesney, co-author of Rich Media. Poor Democracy" & "Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex Is Destroying America, co-founder of Free Press.

Jen Senko, author: The Brainwashing of My Dad: How the Rise of the Right-Wing Media Changed a Father and Divided Our Nation--And How We Can Fight Back, and documentary film director.

Nora Benavides, a civil and human rights attorney.

Anand Giridharadas, author of Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World.