Join us for a roundtable conversation with three local journalists: Martiza Felix, Investigative Journalist, Producer, Writer, and Founder of Conecta Arizona; Joseph Jaafari, Editor-in-Chief of LOOKOUT Publications; Dylan Smith, Editor and Publisher of the Tucson Sentinel.
The event ties into TJMHC’s Contemporary Human Rights Exhibit, Media Matters, which examines who owns the media, why so many people distrust it, and how AI is changing the way information spreads.
Trust in the media has been sliding for years, with Gallup’s most recent numbers putting trust at just 28%, one of the lowest marks on record. TJMHC built Media Matters to meet that moment by helping visitors recognize their own blind spots and pick up practical tools for telling fact from fiction.
Lynn Davis, Interim Executive Director of TJMHC, notes, “As often happens with our Contemporary Human Rights Exhibit, Media Matters provides a profound analysis of current events – naming the threats posed by propaganda, mis- and disinformation, and the conglomeration of media sources – while creating a throughline to the themes we find in lessons of the Holocaust.
Joseph Goebbels’ Ministry of Propaganda created and distributed the People’s Radio (we have one here at the museum), which put an affordable, accessible source of information into people’s homes. But the Third Reich also controlled the messaging, which allowed them to spread their hate-filled propaganda far and wide. Media Matters invites us to interrogate what happens when the medium, the message, and the messenger are all rolled into one, and this roundtable conversation will explore how those very threats exist today.”
The roundtable will give participants a chance to hear directly from working journalists about how they verify sources, navigate bias, and build public trust in an age of deepfakes and disinformation. The conversation will also include the CRAAP Test, a practical framework featured in the exhibit for evaluating any source of information. The event is free, but registration is required.
LOCATION:
Tucson Jewish Museum & Holocaust Center
564 S. Stone Ave.
Tucson, AZ 85701