University of Kansas Journalism professor Patricia Weems Gaston discusses dis- and misinformation and their threats to democracy. Gaston won a Pulitzer prize in 1994 for a series for the Dallas Morning News on the universality of violence against women and served as a Pulitzer Prize juror earlier this year. In 2022 She helped organize a virtual series of presentations on “Wellness in Our Democracy: The Threat of Disinformation and Misinformation“.
Gaston has held the Lacy C. Haynes chair of Journalism at the University of Kansas since 2018. She grew up in Kansas City and earned a B.A. in journalism from KU in 1981. Since then she has held multiple journalism and editorial positions with the Dallas Morning News and the Washington Post.
She is interviewed by Karl Brooks and Spencer Graves
Listen here: https://kkfi.org/program-episodes/dis-and-misinformation-and-their-threats-to-democracy/
The Media & Democracy series encourages media reform to improve democracy.