Independent Global News
Hot Topics

Democracy Now! Events

Event banner

Past Event

The Crisis of the Media-Industrial Complex, A Talk by Nermeen Shaikh

Ithaca, NY

October 03, 2019 | Thursday | 7:00 pm

Center for Natural Sciences 112

Textor Cir,
Ithaca, NY 14850 ( see map )
Journalist Nermeen Shaikh will speak about the fallacies and distortions of mainstream media and how independent news outlets like Democracy Now! provide an urgently needed corrective.

Nermeen Shaikh is a cohost and news producer at Democracy Now! She is the author of “The Present as History,” published by Columbia University Press. She regularly speaks on issues ranging from contemporary news media and film to politics and literature. She has presented in various venues including the United Nations, TEDx Danubia (Hungary), the Toronto International Film Festival, the American Psychological Association, the New European Literature Festival, among others.

Hosted By
Tickets
The event is free and open to the public.
Facebook
Event Page

Nermeen Shaikh

170824 democracynow brookeduthiephoto 03062
Nermeen Shaikh is a co-host and senior producer at Democracy Now! She worked briefly at Al Jazeera English in Washington, D.C. before joining Democracy Now! in 2011.

She serves on the Board of Directors of the Nobel Women’s Initiative.

She was previously the Managing Editor at Asia Society and a researcher at the International Institute for...

More