Beyond the broadcast: Covering the 2024 elections
11:00 a.m. ET Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024
National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.
First Amendment Room
Beyond the broadcast: Covering the 2024 elections
A live, in-person panel discussion featuring:
- Geoff Bennett, PBS NewsHour co-anchor
- Jonathan Karl, ABC News chief Washington correspondent and co-anchor of This Week
- Kristen Welker, NBC News Meet the Press moderator
- Moderated by David Folkenflik, NPR media correspondent
Doors open at 11 a.m. Lunch served at 11:15 a.m. Program begins promptly at 12:00 p.m.
The 2024 elections will be a pivotal moment for democracy, as Americans vote in presidential, congressional, state and local elections and decide important ballot initiatives. With so many decisions on the line, how will the major news networks effectively cover the candidates and inform voters of the issues at stake?
Join us as we host anchors from four of the most highly regarded television news programs in the country and discuss key topics, such as how the networks will choose which candidates and issues to cover; how they plan to deal with election misinformation and candidates who spread it; what the public needs to know about the candidates; how networks call the elections, and policy versus horse race coverage.
The News Literacy Project, a nonpartisan education nonprofit, is building a national movement to advance the practice of news literacy throughout American society, creating better informed, more engaged and more empowered individuals — and ultimately a stronger democracy.
