Hate, Harassment and the Right to Report: A Conversation with WUNC’s The State of Things

Date/Time
Date(s) - 09/24/2019
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

WUNC State of Things Host Frank Stasio will host our inaugural live-to-tape First Amendment Day Panel, featuring Rachel Glickhouse, journalist and the partner manager for the Documenting Hate Project at ProPublica. Professor Mary-Rose Papandrea, the Samuel Ashe Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the UNC School of Law, will also join the discussion. Other panelists include Elisa Lees Muñoz, executive director of the International Women’s Media Foundation; Wendy Scott, professor of law at Elon University; and Allen Johnson, Greensboro News & Record editorial page editor. The panel will address hate speech online and in public spaces, protest and free speech, the impact of online harassment on women and minority journalists and content moderation.

UPDATE: A recording and summary of the conversation is available here.