League of Women Voters Asheville - Buncombe County, NC

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Special Event February 15 at 7 pm via Zoom

February 15 @ 6:00 pm

As a one-day delayed celebration of the 104th Birthday of the League of Women Voters we are having a very timely talk “Understanding the News to be an Informed Citizen” by Amanda Sturgill.

Amanda Sturgill is an associate professor of journalism at Elon University. She was a newspaper reporter in South Carolina prior to graduate school at Cornell. At Elon, she teaches students how to be thoughtful and ethical creators of news. She’s the author of Detecting Deception: Tools to Fight Fake News and the host of the podcast UnSpun, which focuses on media literacy.

This is a Zoom (https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81902092247) presentation at 7 pm and is not limited to League members. Invite your friends, neighbors, relatives to join us.

Details

Date:
February 15
Time:
6:00 pm