SPJ panel discussion features Tampa Bay Time’s Josh Gillin and PublicSource’s Mila Sanina

By Julie Pawlikowski, second year graduate student in the Media Management program

The Society of Professional Journalists will host Media Literacy and Battling Fake News, an upcoming panel event at Duquesne that aims to educate the public on how to identify valid news sources and spot misinformation. Media Literacy and Battling Fake News will take place on Tuesday, Jan. 23, at 7 p.m. in Room 105 of College Hall.

Panelists for the event are Joshua Gillin, staff member at the Tampa Bay Times since 2006, including a four-year stint as a reporter with the newspaper’s affiliate, PolitiFact Florida, a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims from officials and politicians; and Mila Sanina, executive editor of Public Source PA, a Pittsburgh-based media outlet that conducts outreach events at local libraries about fact-checking and misinformation. The moderator will be Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter Julian Routh, a 2016 graduate of Duquesne’s Media Department.

The panel is free and open to the public. A Q&A session will follow presentations by the panelists.