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Beyoncé’s Nutritionist, Recycling CEO Discuss Sustainability Storytelling

Planet Forward Summit speakers share how to use storytelling to persuade an audience to rethink waste and eat plant-based.

April 11, 2019

Marco Borges, the man behind Beyoncé’s plant-based eating challenge, knew that the interactive tool he created to quantify the environmental impact of...

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SMPA’s Tyriana Evans Named 2019 Commencement Student Speaker

The B.A. candidate in journalism and mass communication will speak about overcoming fear.

April 2, 2019

When Tyriana Evans arrived on the George Washington University campus in fall 2017, doubts swirled through her mind that she would successfully establish the...

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Four-Time Emmy Award Winner Joins SMPA Staff

April 2, 2019

Linda Lashendock joins the George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs as Manager, Media and Instructional Technology on Monday after...

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Connections with Citizens and Communities Key to Trust in Journalism

An SMPA panel of experts on politics and journalism discussed how to build connections with the American people and reinforce civil discourse.

March 30, 2019

A new Pew Research Center survey on journalism found that consumers of local news rate the job done by local media higher when they view local journalists as...

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A Trailblazing Black Journalist

Dorothy Butler Gilliam discussed her book, “Trailblazer,” and her career as the first black female reporter at The Washington Post.

March 26, 2019

One of the first stories that Dorothy Butler Gilliam covered as a journalist just out of college was the integration of schools in Little Rock, Ark., as...