Never has the direct relationship between a free press and healthy democracy been so keenly felt and precarious as it does now. As we head into a crucial U.S. election year when mistrust, misinformation and disinformation are circulating with furious velocity, video journalists face a crucible. Democracy, Technology, TV Journalism And The 2024 Election, the keynote panel at TVNewsCheck’s NewsTECHForum conference, will confront that crucible head on from three distinct vantage points — those of a station group CEO, a national news anchor and a news technologist.
Adam Symson, president and CEO, E.W. Scripps, and Connell McShane, anchor, NewsNation, will join moderator Michael Depp, chief content officer, NewsCheckMedia and editor, TVNewsCheck, for the keynote discussion at the New York Hilton at 10 a.m. on Dec. 12.
The session will look at how the industry must meet a critical moment to determine TV news’ lasting future, where emerging technologies will come to bear and what’s at stake in the work the industry does over the next year.
“Television news is hurtling toward an inflection point that may very well be the next U.S. presidential election,” Depp said. “On that trajectory, it will need to validate its legitimacy with skeptical viewers and prove its relevance. Along the way, the industry’s resilience will be tested like never before.
“Adam and Connell will speak to the unprecedented stress test the industry — and U.S. democracy — faces and how they see their respective roles in that,” Depp added. “I expect a frank and revealing conversation that lays bare the stakes and offers a hopeful picture of perseverance.”
NewsTECHForum, now in its 10th year, is co-located with the Sports Video Group Summit. The conference’s theme for 2023 is Adapting to a Culture of Continuous Crisis.
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