The Phil Lind Initiative Presents: Matt Taibbi

UBC’s School of Public Policy and Global Affairs is proud to host Matt Taibbi, best-selling author and award-winning columnist for Rolling Stone, as part of our 2022 Phil Lind Initiative series on “The Future of Media.”

Please note: We plan to host this event in person, but we will move to fully virtual if needed. Please select a ticket type upon registration: In-person event ticket and/or live stream ticket.

Series Theme: Media is at a crossroads. Full-time journalists and long-form reporting have been forced to cede public space to click bait news articles, online echo chambers, and disinformation campaigns. It has never been more challenging to inform the public, to bridge political divides, and to stimulate healthy debate.

Yet trust in mass media has never been lower, with only 9% of Americans trusting the media “a great deal” and 60% having “little to no trust at all.” From the rise of social media to the erosion of traditional business models to the deep political polarization in American society, how we as citizens consume information has fundamentally changed.

This series explores these changes, but more importantly asks where we go from here. How can we restore trust? How do we reconcile evidence-based reporting with the digital age? And above all, how can we reshape the media landscape in the face of these challenges to better society?

Find books authored by Matt Taibbi on the UBC Bookstore website.

Hosted by: The Phil Lind Initiative is hosted by the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs in the Faculty of Arts at the University of British Columbia