Cronkite LIVE - A Conversation with Wesley Lowery: Truth/Trust in the Media

555 North Central Avenue,Phoenix AZ 85004

30 March, 2023

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This event is a partnership between the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and Recovering Truth: Religion, Journalism and Democracy in a Post-Truth Era, a project of the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University. We invite you to join us at ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication First Amendment Forum for a conversation with Wesley Lowery, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author and on-air correspondent. He currently works as a contributing editor at The Marshall Project and a Journalist in Residence at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. In nearly a decade as a national correspondent, Lowery has specialized in issues of race, justice and law enforcement. His next book, American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress, comes out in June 2023. You can also watch the event livestream here. Please join us for a reception following the in-person event. About the SpeakerLowery led the Washington Post team that won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2016 for the creation and analysis of a real-time database to track fatal police shootings in the United States. Another project, “Murder with Impunity,” an unprecedented look at unsolved homicides in major American cities, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2019. His first book, “They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement,” was a New York Times bestseller and awarded the Los Angeles Times-Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose. Parking InformationDowntown Phoenix campus recommended parking: University Center Garage Rates: 1 hour or less — $41-2 hours — $82-3 hours — $123-4 hours — $16Maximum rate: $16