Amanpour tells Taricani Lecture audience: ‘My decision was to tell the truth, no matter how unpopular it made me’

“Everybody comes to the world with their own lived experiences and their own biases,” Christiane Amanpour told several hundred viewers during the recent livestream discussion of the University of Rhode Island’s Taricani Lecture Series on First Amendment Rights. “Our job [as journalists] is not to say we don’t have biases. Our job is to report the truth and do it objectively, despite whatever biases we may have.”

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Courageous journalists: URI’s Taricani Lecture Series honors late journalist with discussion on First Amendment

The University of Rhode Island’s Harrington School of Communication and Media honors a courageous journalist with this summer’s Taricani Lecture Series on First Amendment Rights. The series, which will be streamed live, opens Tuesday, June 16, with award-winning journalists and authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.

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Dr. Emily Diamond Joins the Departments of Communication Studies and Marine Affairs

The College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to welcome several new Professors on the tenure-track beginning in the fall 2019 semester. Assistant Professor Emily Diamond, Ph.D., joins the University with a joint appointment in the Department of Marine Affairs and the Harrington School of Communication and Media’s Public Relations Program.

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Harrington Mentoring Program Prepares Students for Professional World

An internship and other forms of experiential learning can provide an invaluable complement to the classic liberal arts education. In the Harrington School of Communication and Media at the University of Rhode Island, students are strongly encouraged to do at least one internship or to engage in hands-on experiential learning opportunities, from partnering with a […]

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