{"id":37109,"date":"2010-10-26T16:20:32","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T20:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=37109"},"modified":"2023-01-24T13:47:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T18:47:50","slug":"civicforum-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2010\/10\/26\/civicforum-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Civic Forum series concludes with panel on journalism, democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three experienced journalists offer a discussion titled <em>The Role of Journalism in a Democracy<\/em> at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 8, in Bates College&#8217;s Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Campus Ave.<\/p>\n<p>The public is invited to attend this event free of charge. The panel concludes this fall&#8217;s Civic Forum series at Bates, presented by the Harward Center for Community Partnerships, the Bates office that coordinates projects linking the college and community. For more information, please contact 207-786-6202 or this <a href=\"kcloutie@bates.edu.\">kcloutie@bates.edu.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The panelists are Rex Rhoades, executive editor of the Lewiston Sun Journal; Thomas Fiedler, dean of Boston University\u2019s College of Communication and former executive editor of The Miami Herald; and Justin Ellis, former columnist, staff writer and multimedia producer for the Portland Press Herald, and now on staff at the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University.<\/p>\n<p>Topics will include the role of journalism in holding government accountable; challenges journalists face today in carrying out that role; who should be the arbiter of journalistic standards; and the impact of the changing media landscape on our democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Civic Forum presentations explore civic, political and policy issues significant to the local community, Maine and beyond. They often feature panels of local and national experts and lively question-and-answer sessions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three experienced journalists offer a discussion titled &#8220;The Role of Journalism in a Democracy&#8221; at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 8, in Bates College&#8217;s Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Campus Ave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[6,195,220,11009],"tags":[4087,4856,10830],"class_list":["post-37109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maine-world","category-news-politics","category-service","category-the-college","tag-harward-center-for-community-partnerships","tag-journalism","tag-lewiston-auburn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93356,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37109\/revisions\/93356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}