Jan Schaffer, executive director of J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism and a leading thinker on the emerging new media landscape, will deliver the 33rd Annual McGill lecture, The Courage to Innovate for the Future of Journalism. A former Business Editor and a Pulitzer Prize winner for The Philadelphia Inquirer, she left daily journalism in 1994 to lead pioneering journalism initiatives in civic journalism, interactive and participatory journalism and citizen media ventures.
Lecture will take place in Room 101. A reception will follow in the Reading Room.
The McGill lecture honors Ralph McGill's courage as editor of The Atlanta Constitution. McGill was regarded as the "conscience of the south" for his editorials challenging racial segregation in the 1950s and 1960s.
