JOURNALISM, PUBLIC OPINION AND POLICY MAKING IN EUROPE

Giovanna Dell’Orto is Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota’s Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication. A former journalist with The Associated Press (AP), she is the author of several books on journalism and international affairs. Refugee News, Refugee Politics (Routledge, 2018) is her most recent book which she published in cooperation with her Austrian collegue Irmgard Wetzstein, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Communication, University of Vienna

Martin Staudinger, Journalist, Editor for Foreign Affairs at the Austrian Weekly Profil

Moderation: Tessa Szyszkowitz, Journalist and Author

The unprecedented arrival of more than a million refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants – plus the political, public, and policy reactions to it – is redefining Europe. What is the role of the news media in telling the story of the refugee crisis at a time of deepening crisis for journalism, as “fake news” ran rampant amid an increasingly distrustful public?