Click here to view a video of the 5/16/24 webinar.

Local journalism, as many have known it, seems to have disappeared. The polarizing and often inaccurate cries of 'fake news" and rise of so-called 'news deserts' with no local news outlets have led to a public crisis of confidence in news reporting, intensified by recent changes in both local and national news sources. 

Join us for our Community Conversations webinar where the panelists will examine these challenges and offer practical, hands-on solutions that people can use to be more news media literate, better informed about local issues, and motivated in their civic engagement.
 
Professors and authors Mickey Huff and Nolan Higdon, from Diablo Valley College and Project Censored, will lead this discussion. They will be joined by Bob Butler, longtime newscaster for KCBS radio. Susan Hildreth, League of Women Voters Diablo Valley, will moderate. 

Audience questions will be collected and answered through the Zoom chat.

Community Conversations are sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Diablo Valley, the League of Women Voters of West Contra Costa County, CCTV, and the Contra Costa County Library.  

The webinar will have simultaneous Spanish and American Sign Language interpretation. The Library will provide closed captioning for this event.This program will be recorded and uploaded to the Library and LWVDV YouTube channels after the event.

Contact programs [at] lwvdv.org for more information.