fact-checking "the daily show": the real journalists who keep fake news honest

Join us for a conversation with five journalists-turned-comedy writers, researchers and producers

Wednesday, May 4, 7:00 p.m. in New York City

WHAT:

Trevor Noah, Larry Wilmore and Samantha Bee aren’t real newscasters, but they play them on TV -- thanks, in part, to the real journalists in their writers’ rooms.

Satirical news has become a mainstay of pop culture. We ask, what purpose do these programs serve beyond entertainment? How beholden are they to the facts? And are the satirists speaking truth to power in a way “real” journalists cannot?

WHO:

Dan Amira, "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah"

Daniel Radosh, "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah"

Cord Jefferson, formerly of "The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore"

Naureen Khan, "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee"

Sanya Dosani, "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee"

Moderated by Brooke Gladstone, WNYC’s "On the Media" (and 2012 New School honorary degree recipient).

WHEN

Wednesday, May 4, 2016, 7:00 p.m.

WHERE

The New School’s Alvin Johnson Hall, 66 W. 12th St., Room 407, New York, NY 10011
TICKETS The event is free, but members of the media must rsvp with Will Wilbur at [email protected] or 212.229.5667 x 3990.

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PRESS RELEASE

Media Contact:

Will Wilbur, The New School
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