Is journalism in crisis? Interview with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Serge Schmemann

Speakers from UNESCO’s Colloquium Journalism Under Fire: Challenges of our times, share their thoughts about the recent challenges posed to journalism. Serge Schmemann, American journalist and writer, currently a member of the editorial board of the New York Times, talks about today’s crisis in journalism and specifically on one of its “symptoms”, according to Schmemann, “fake news”.

On March 23, the UNESCO Colloquium Journalism under fire: challenges of our time, featured lively debates from leading scholars journalists, and representatives of social media companies and media development organizations to discuss the contemporary challenges to journalism. Topics ranged from the rise of identity politics, to threats to business models, responses to the spread of “fake news”, the role of social media platforms, and the importance of journalism training and media and information literacy.