About
Fostering free and critical media practices and scholarship.
We are in uncharted waters. Political intimidation threatens media practitioners worldwide, and disinformation campaigns destabilize public trust. The Center for Media at Risk offers the chance to strategize in response to threatening political conditions. Knowing how media practitioners work under authoritarian regimes and circumstances of creeping authoritarianism can help free/defend/empower/protect/save the media.
Leadership
Barbie Zelizer, Ph.D.
Raymond Williams Professor of CommunicationSteering Comittee
Jeanna Sybert, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Media at Risk
Sophie Maddocks, Ph.D.
Research & Outreach Director, Center for Media at Risk
Visitors
Resident media practitioners, scholars, researchers and students collaborate to disrupt the impact of political intimidation on the media.
Programming
Public lectures, symposia, exhibits, workshops and colloquia provide in-depth discussions of media practices and practitioners under threat.
Research
Projects, podcasts, studies, overviews and reports probe under-examined aspects of media at risk and highlight their patterning worldwide.