Jeremy Scahill, December 2008 JEREMY SCAHILL addressed a packed Park Auditorium and identified a key attribute of an independent journalist: heart. He spoke of his evolution from activist for homeless people to volunteer at Democracy Now!, and ultimately to...
Events
Speaker Series: Josh Marshall
Josh Marshall, September 2008 JOSH MARSHALL keynoted the inaugural symposium of the Park Center for Independent Media. Founder of the Talking Points Memo/TPM Muckraker blogs, he won the 2008 Polk Award in legal reporting for relentless coverage of the...
Speaker Series: Rory Kennedy
Rory Kennedy, January 2008 RORY KENNEDY, award-winning documentary filmmaker, was our inaugural speaker. Kennedy is the co-founder/president of Moxie Firecracker Films, Inc. Her impressive body of work tackles some of our most pressing social concerns--poverty,...