In this presentation, award-winning journalist and media executive Eric Schurenberg explores the current news and election landscape. You’ll come away with an understanding of how social media and digital economics shape today’s information environment, how partisan actors exploit our all-too-human vulnerability to misinformation, and how those economic and psychological forces have shaped the coverage of this Presidential campaign.
The goal: To help you think critically, despite the heightened passion and noise, about the decision you’ll make on November 5.
This program is part of a League event series where noted authorities speak on relevant topics leading up to the U.S. Presidential Election on Tuesday, November 5. Presented by LWVIL’s Misinformation and Disinformation Task Force https://www.lwvil.org/misdis-info , the series is part of an effort to provide tools and resources that educate voters.
About the Speaker
Eric Schurenberg is the founder of the Alliance for Trust in Media, a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering trust between journalists and their audiences. The Alliance partners with newsrooms across the country to research strategies that help build audience trust and shares its findings at live events and through its website. It also promotes media literacy in the workplace and hosts the podcast In Reality, which focuses on truth, disinformation, and the media.
Before founding the Alliance, Eric served as CEO of Mansueto Ventures, home to Inc. and Fast Company, where he led the company to its first year of profitability. Prior to that, he was president and editor-in-chief of Inc., founding editor at CBS http://MoneyWatch.com, and held several leadership roles in business journalism, earning numerous accolades including a Loeb Award and a National Magazine Award.
In addition to his work at the Alliance, Eric is editor-in-chief and board member of Amplify Publishing Group. He also serves as a strategic adviser to the University of Chicago’s Leadership and Society Initiative and is a senior fellow at the US Chamber of Commerce.
Earlier in his career, Eric spent six years as an actor, often typecast as a Cockney juvenile delinquent—despite being from Ohio.
Outside of work, Eric is a private pilot and a competitive club tennis player.