° Jordan Center Symposium

Holly Springs, Miss., is a town of just under 7,000 residents, but small towns like Holly Springs can go on to build big names. One of those names is Elise Jordan, a Yale University graduate and journalist that has written...

danah boyd’s curiosity for technology and the internet began in the early stages of social media and networking through sites such as MySpace and Friendster. After she entered college and the first phases of her career, that curiosity grew into...

  In September 2023, civil rights lawyer and educator Meetali Jain launched the Tech Justice Law Project (TJLP),  a nonprofit pushing back against the growing power of Big Tech through litigation, policy and education. Small but mighty, the group tackles...

Dana Millbank, a graduate of the Yale University political science program and a nationally syndicated op-ed columnist for for The Washington Post, spoke on "the topic "Can the Free Press Survive the Trump Era?" at the Jordan Center for Journalism...

Kashmir Hill, a features writer on the business desk at The New York Times, spoke about the promises and problems of artificial intelligence, social media and digital surveillance during the Jordan Center for Journalism Advocacy and Innovation’s inaugural symposium at...

Advocation and research about media, technology and democracy are the main focuses of Justin Hendrix, CEO and editor of Tech Policy Press.  Hendrix, who lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., visited the University of Mississippi during the Jordan Center for Journalism and...

For Charles Blow, the path to power and authentic expression requires not a step forward, but a journey back — to the South, to one's roots, to the unfiltered truth of one's own voice. Every word he writes is filtered...

Zeynep Tufekci, Henry G. Bryant professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University. As readers turn to Artificial Intelligence rather than mainstream media for their news, journalists need to understand their jobs are more important than ever, according to...

Duke Professor Bill Adair is driven by a desire to make crucial information more accessible to wide audiences, and his principles are imperative for addressing the issue of lying in politics and the consequences of false information in democracy.   Bill...

What is artificial intelligence? Is it an innovation that will lead to a robot populated utopia, is it just another technological tool made up of ones and zeros or something in between? Professor Meredith Broussard was among those who tackled...