NPR media correspondent kicks of lecture series
David Folkinflik visits Longwood University
David Folkenflik, an NPR media correspondent and the four-time winner of the Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism spoke at Longwood University on October 11th. The talk is the first installment of the President’s Lecture Series for the 2017–18 academic year.
Folkenflik spoke to a packed recital hall, as well as a full overflow room, about the role media plays in democracy. Folkenflik gave the audience an in-depth look on how the media has changed since the latest presidential election.
“I came to get a better understanding of journalism in the real world from an expert in the field” Longwood University student Stephan Herring said.
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Folkenflik touched on the president’s relationship to the media as well as fake news and sensitivety in reporting, while still including anecdotes to make the audience laugh.
Preisdent W. Taylor Reveley decided to bring speakers this year that focused on media and citizenship. “it’s a neat opportunity to have giants like David Folkenflik to give us all, and students in particular, a chance to reflect on how the media environment is changing and what effect that has on all of us as citizen leaders.”
Folkflick spent an hour speaking and forty minutes to answer the questions of students and faculty. He also stayed after the lecture to have a meet and greet along with refreshments, before heading to New York city to be back in the recording studio by five AM.
Dr. Naomi Johnson a communications professor at Longwood University agreed that these installments will better the university “it gave students a better understanding on how news develops in democracy and showed what you have to do as a journalist.”
Folkenflik joined NPR in 2004 after more than a decade at the Baltimore Sun, His stories and analyses are broadcast on the network’s newsmagazines, such as Here & Now, and All Things Considered and is the author of Murdoch’s World: The Last of the Old Media Empires. The Los Angeles Times called Murdoch’s World.
