Diederich College of Communication to host New York Times opinion editor Kathleen Kingsbury

Kathleen Kingsbury, opinion editor of The New York Times, will speak at Marquette on Wednesday, March 18 from 3:30-4:30 p.m. in Sensenbrenner Hall Room 304. Event registration is free, but attendees are asked to reserve a spot in advance.

The talk is titled "Trust and the Power of Journalism" and will cover journalists' impact on the communities they serve, especially those that feel unheard, unrepresented or misrepresented. Kingsbury will also cover how trust is built, broken and earned back in journalism.

Journalists from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service will also join, as will representatives of the journalism support organization Trusting News. Panel participants are as follows:

-Edgar Mendez, Managing Editor of Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
-Kynala Phillips, Neighborhood Dispatch Editor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
-Lynn Walsh, Assistant Director of Trusting News

Prior to her role as opinion editor at The New York Times, Kingsbury worked for Time Magazine in their New York and Hong Kong bureaus. She also worked at The Boston Globe as deputy managing editor and deputy editorial page editor. Kingsbury won a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 2015 for a series of articles about unjust working conditions in the restaurant industry. She was a finalist for the same award in 2018.