Trust & Censorship in Traditional Media and Publishing
Panelists:
James Bennet, Senior Editor, The Economist
Inaya Folarin Iman, Journalist and Executive Director of the Equiano Project
Ritu Kapur, CEO and Co-Founder, The Quint
David Plazas, Opinion and Engagement Director, The Tennessean
Moderator:
John M. Seigenthaler, Partner at Finn Partners and former NBC anchor
James Bennet is The Economist‘s Lexington columnist and a senior editor. Previously he served for a year as a visiting senior editor at The Economist. He has also served as editorial page editor of The New York Times and editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. Before joining The Atlantic, he worked as a reporter at The Times in various roles, including Jerusalem bureau chief, magazine correspondent, White House correspondent and Detroit bureau chief.
Inaya Folarin Iman is a broadcast journalist and is the Founder and Director of The Equiano Project, a forum to promote freedom of speech and open dialogue on the subjects of race, identity and culture. She has worked as a feature writer and columnist for various national publications including the Daily Mail, The Telegraph and spiked. She is a panelist on the moral and ethical BBC Radio 4 programme Moral Maze and is a regular commentator across leading political and cultural radio and TV programmes.
Ritu Kapur is the co-founder and managing director of Quint Digital Limited which runs The Quint, an independent news site in India. She has strived to provide multiple platforms for free speech like The Quint's citizen journalism initiative "My Report” and Webqoof, The Quint’s fact check initiative. The Quint has won several awards including the Best News Website award, two years running at the WAN-IFRA South Asian Digital Media Awards.
David Plazas is the Opinion and Engagement Director for the USA TODAY Network Tennessee. He writes award-winning columns, edits guest essays and leads opinion strategy for The Tennessean in Nashville, The Commercial Appeal in Memphis and The News Sentinel in Knoxville. He works closely with opinion editors across the national USA TODAY Network.
During his 11 years at NBC News, John M. Seigenthaler anchored NBC Nightly News Weekend edition, appeared on Meet The Press, Dateline, TODAY, Weekend TODAY, MSNBC, CNBC and Discovery Channel. He also was an anchor and reporter in local television news at KOMO TV (ABC) in Seattle, and WKRN TV (ABC) and WSMV TV (NBC) in Nashville. He is a member of the Peabody Awards Board of Jurors and a member of the judging committee for the RFK Journalism Awards.