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Camden Conference 2020- Social Media and Democracy: Sorting True Information from “Fake News”

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Broadcast Date: 3-19-20

Social Media, Democracy, Fake News, and Fact Checking

Key Discussion Points:
-Research on how well online news users can distinguish between real news articles and phony “news”
-Methods for establishing “ground truth” for news articles
-Discussion of pros and cons of crowd-sourced fact checking

Guests:
Joshua Tucker, Professor, New York University
David Brancaccio, American Public Media
Nic Newman, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
Jeff Jarvis, Professor, City University of New York
Nicco Mele, Kennedy School, Harvard University

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Camden Conference 2020: Cyber Misinformation and the Press

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Broadcast Date: 3-13-20

Key Discussion Points:
-Role of digital information dumps in today’s cyberworld
-Threats to the civic structure of the country from “impostor news”
-Ways the Press can more effectively evaluate dumped information, e.g., WikiLeaks dump of Democratic emails in 2016

Guests:
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Professor, Annenberg School of Communications
Jeff Jarvis, Professor, Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, City University of New York
David Brancaccio, Host, Marketplace Morning Report, American Public Media

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WERU Special: Camden Conference 3/27/19

Special Presentation from the 2019 Camden Conference: China’s Rise as a World Power, Program 3

“Is This China’s Century?”

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Key Discussion Points:
a) Surveillance in China
b) Surveillance in the US by companies and by government
c) Education in China vs education in the US.

Guests:
Final Q&A Session
Martin Jacques, Senior Fellow, Cambridge Universtiy
Elizabeth Economy, Director of Asia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Robert Daly, Director of the Kissinger Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center
Professor Yuen Yuen Ang, University of Michigan
Professor Yashen Huang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Indira Lakshmanan, Executive Editor, Pulitzer Institute on Crisis Reporting
Prof. George S. Yip, Imperial College Business School, London
Kaiser Kuo, Editor at Large, SupChina.com
Professor Wu Xinbo, Fudan University (Shanghai)
Yuki Tatsumi, Director, Japan Program, The Stimson Center
Susan Thornton, Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale
Ma Jun, Director, Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (Beijing)

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WERU Special: Camden Conference 3/20/19

Special Presentation from the 2019 Camden Conference: China’s Rise as a World Power, Program 2

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Program Topic: “Is This China’s Century?

Key Discussion Points:
Changes in Chinese government since 2012
Where the US should cooperate with China and where the US should compete
Both China and the US need to accommodate themselves to a world of shared political and economic dominance.

Guests:
Elizabeth Economy, Director of Asia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Robert Daly, Director of the Kissinger Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center

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WERU Special: Camden Conference 3/13/19

Special Presentation from the 2019 Camden Conference: China’s Rise as a World Power, Program 1

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

“Is This China’s Century?

Key Discussion Points:
Some democratic principles in the Chinese bureaucracy
Sustainability of the current Chinese model
How the US “gets China wrong”.

Guests:
Professor Yuen Yuen Ang, University of Michigan
Professor Yashen Huang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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WERU Special: Camden Conference 3/29/18

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Camden Conference Special Presentation: “Best of Times or Worst of Times”

-Recent history of Presidential efforts to affect US foreign policy
-Current state of US foreign policy and weakening US standing in the world
-Possible steps that can be taken to pursue a more realistic and effective foreign policy

Speakers:
Stephen M. Walt, Harvard University
Gordon Adams, former Senior White House official on foreign policy

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Special 3/31/17: Selections from the 2017 Camden Conference

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Program Topic: Migration and Refugees

Key Discussion Points:
a) Moral and practical reasons for refugee protection
b) Current scale of displaced people in different parts of the world and political effects
c) Distinction among refugees, asylum seekers, forcibly displace persons, immigrants

Guests:
Jeanne Bourgault, Camden Conference Moderator and President of Internews
Ray Jennings, Principal, Cultural Naviagtion Group

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