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SUMMARY:Saving American Journalism: The Information Needs of a Democracy
DESCRIPTION:A conversation about serving the news and information needs of our nation  \nThursday\, Feb 10 at 8pm ET | 5pm PT\, PBS Books is pleased to host The New Era of Modern Journalism: a conversation with Evan Smith\, who is the CEO and Co-Founder of The Texas Tribune\, a pioneering nonprofit\, nonpartisan media outlet\, in conversation with journalist Errin Haines\, Editor-At-Large of The 19th*. \nHaving recently announced his departure from The Texas Tribune\, Evan Smith will discuss his background and career\, the current state of journalism and its future.   \nThe conversation will touch on the importance journalism to our democratic system\, the threat posed by misinformation and disinformation\, the pressing need for diverse voices in coverage and in newsrooms\, the danger of news deserts and sustainable business models\, particularly for local journalism.   \n Smith’s work at the Tribune has offered an important template for others to follow to ensure that local communities\, especially those that are historically under-represented\, are heard.  Award-winning journalist Errin Haines is a trailblazer in her own right.  As one of the founders and the editor-at-large of The 19th (so named for the constitutional amendment granting women the right to vote)\, she reports on gender\, race\, politics\, and policy.  \nAbout Evan Smith \nEvan Smith is the CEO and co-founder of The Texas Tribune\, a pioneering nonprofit\, nonpartisan digital news organization whose deep coverage of Texas politics and public policy can be found at its website\, texastribune.org\, and in newspapers and on TV and radio stations across the state. Since its launch in 2009\, the Tribune has won international acclaim and numerous honors\, including a Peabody Award\, 23 national Edward R. Murrow Awards from the Radio Television Digital News Association and three general excellence awards from the Online News Association. Evan is also the host of “Overheard with Evan Smith\,” a weekly half-hour interview program that airs on PBS stations around the country. A native of New York\, he’s a graduate of Hamilton College and Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.  \nAbout Errin Haines \nErrin Haines is the one of the founders and the editor-at-large of The 19th. An award-winning journalist with nearly two decades of experience\, Errin was previously national writer on race for the Associated Press. She’s also worked at the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post. 
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Harriet A. Washington
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, Feb 15 at 8pm ET | 5pm PT\, PBS Books\, in partnership with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH)\, is pleased to host a conversation with scholar and author Harriet A. Washington\, discussing African American health and inequities. \nAs a medical ethicist\, Harriet Washington has a unique and courageous voice and deconstructs the politics around medical issues\, including ‘scientific racism.’ In this conversation\, she will share about the powerful and disturbing portrait of medicine\, race\, sex\, and the abuse of power. Washington also makes the case for broader political consciousness of science and technology\, challenging audiences to see the world differently and challenge established paradigms in the history of medicine. Her latest book\, Carte Blanche: The Erosion of Medical Consent\, documents the alarming tale of how the right of Americans to say “no” to risky medical research is being violated. This program is offered as part of ASALH’s annual conference. \nAbout the Scholar and Author\nHarriet A. Washington is a prolific science writer\, editor and ethicist who is the author of the seminal Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present\, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award\, the PEN/Oakland Award\, and the American Library Association Black Caucus Nonfiction Award and five other well-received books\, including A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and its Assault on the American Mind\, as well as Carte Blanche: The Erosion of Informed Consent in Medical Research\, was published in 2021 by Columbia Global Reports. \nWashington is a Writing Fellow in Bioethics at Harvard Medical School\, a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine\, has been the 2015-2016 Miriam Shearing Fellow at the University of Nevada’s Black Mountain Institute. She has also been a Research Fellow in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School\, a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health\, a visiting scholar at DePaul University College of Law and a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University. She has held fellowships at Stanford University and teaches bioethics at Columbia University\, where she delivered the 2020 commencement speech to Columbia’s School of Public Health graduates and won Columbia’s 2020 Mailman School Of Public Health’s Public Health Leadership Award\, as well as its 2020-21 Kenneth and Mamie Clark Distinguished Lecture Award. Washington has written widely for popular publications and has been published in referenced books and journals such as Nature\, JAMA\, The American Journal of Public Health\, The New England Journal of Medicine\, the Harvard Public Health Review\, Isis\, and The Journal of Law\, Medicine\, and Ethics. She has been Editor of the Harvard Journal of Minority Public Health\, a guest Editor of the Journal of Law\, Medicine and Ethics and served as a reviewer for the Journal of the American Association of Bioethics and the Humanities. \nMs. Washington has also worked as a classical-music announcer for public radio and curates a medical-film series. \n 
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/author-talk-harriet-a-washington/
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SUMMARY:Principles of Personal Financial Literacy
DESCRIPTION:Financial literacy can be a source of stress\, fear\, and worry for many Americans. The best way to achieve confidence in your personal management of money management is by learning how to make smart and secure financial decisions every day. Join PBS Books as we discuss the Principles of Personal Financial Literacy.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/financial-education-event/
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