On March 16, the Knight Foundation and the Carnegie-Knight Deans gather industry leaders to discuss the growing debate over the traditional journalistic value of objectivity. Moderator Nancy Gibbs, Director of the Shorenstein Center at Harvard, is joined by Meredith Artley, SVP and editor-in-chief, CNN Digital Worldwide; Wesley Lowery, 60 Minutes correspondent at CBS News; and Sewell Chan, editorial page editor, LA Times. This panel will also feature student journalists from the Carnegie-Knight schools who will ask our colleagues about what has driven the decline of trust in news and how they approach challenges of fairness, identity and advocacy in their work.
Meredith Artley is a senior vice president and editor-in-chief of CNN Digital Worldwide, where she oversees the creation, programming and publishing of content across all CNN Digital properties including CNN.com, CNNi.com, CNN Politics and CNN Business across mobile, social, desktop and a variety of emerging platforms and products.
Wesley Lowery is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author and correspondent for CBS News, contributing editor at The Marshall Project, and occasional writer for GQ Magazine. Lowery was previously a national correspondent at the Washington Post, specializing in issues of race and law enforcement.
As the editorial page editor, Sewell Chan oversees the editorial board and the Op-Ed and Sunday Opinion pages of the Los Angeles Times.
Chan previously served as a deputy managing editor, overseeing foreign and national news coverage; the front page; the Data and Graphics Department; the multiplatform copy desks; newsletters; and the editorial library.
