Welcome to our newsletter, Digital Transatlantic Dialogue. If you haven't joined us yet, w e are offering webinars every week on a specific public policy or cultural topic with experts from our inspiring community!

Today's Newsletter
  1. Young Leader-led Webinar
  2. Headlines
  3. Interview with Immigration Journalism Fellow
  4. Partner Event: FAF France Webinar
  5. Virtual Story Time for kids with Michelle Obama
  6. Previous webinars
Young Leaders Webinar
We’re pleased to invite you to join us for our third Young Leader-led webinar in partnership with our sister organization, the French-American Foundation - France.

The event is free and open to the public. You do not need a Zoom account to join!

with
 Assistant professor in the department of surgery and cell biology and Director of the vascular research program at New York University Langone Medical Center
and American Young Leader ’19
& 
Director of Strategy and Performance at Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
and French Young Leader ’16

  • Topic: Racing to a Vaccine
  • Date & Time: Thursday, May 28 at 12:30 pm ET
  • RSVP: Click HERE to sign up. Registered guests will receive a link to join in the days leading up to the event.
Headlines
  • "With about two million city residents thought to have inadequate food amid the coronavirus outbreak, the city will soon distribute 1.5 million meals a day. (...)"

  • "Three core principles shape The Economist’s coverage of America’s 2020 elections. First, we only ask for your time when we have something worth saying. Second, the horse race is not everything. Who will win in November is the question on everyone’s mind, of course: our data journalists are already tracking the Democratic primary contest, and we are building predictive models for the presidency, the Senate and the House of Representatives. (...)"

  • "Emissions may be down, but carbon dioxide still piles up relentlessly in the atmosphere. It’s more important than ever to find climate change solutions, experts say. (...)"

  • " On March 8, it was mostly business as usual in the United States. As the Lakers faced the Clippers in a much-anticipated Los Angeles basketball matchup, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) rallied before a packed crowd in Michigan. In Miami, thousands squeezed onto the beach for a massive dance party. With 500 coronavirus infections reported nationwide at the time, the outbreak seemed like a distant threat to many Americans.(...)"
Interview With Damaso Reyes, Immigration Journalism Fellow '13
Damaso Reyes is an independent journalist, media literacy expert, and 2013 French-American Foundation Immigration Journalism Fellow. Read our new interview discussing media literacy during the COVID-19 crisis.

Q. The general public is receiving information about Covid-19 at a rapid pace and from many different news sources. How can we discern which of these sources are accurate?
The first thing we need to do is recognize that not all the information we are receiving is from news sources. If we spend a lot of time on social media most of the information we may receive is not be created by a journalist for the purpose of informing us and checked by an editor. We will come across memes, rants, photos and charts with no attribution. Or we may see a post or an ad directly from a politician who has their own agenda. Read the full interview.

Damaso Reyes' bio:
Damaso Reyes is an independent journalist and media literacy expert based in Barcelona, Spain. He is also the founder of Clarify Media , a media literacy company dedicated to training educators, students and organizations to be more information literate. Read more.
Partner Event: FAF France Webinar
Please join our sister organization, the French-American Foundation in Paris, for a featured webinar:

Decision-Making in a Time of Crisis
How Can Behavioral Science Inform the Covid-19 Response?

with

Olivier Sibony , Affiliate Professor, HEC Paris
&
Cass Sunstein , Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard

  • Date & Time: Wednesday, May 27 at 8:00 - 9:00 am ET
  • RSVP: Click HERE to sign up. You do not need a Zoom account to attend this event, once registered, you will receive a web link to directly access the conference.
Virtual Story Time For Kids With Michelle Obama
On Mondays at noon, join Former First Lady Michelle Obama for virtual story time with your kids.

Since mid-April, as schools across the country remain closed, she has presented the PBS Kids' series Read Along, selecting a children's book from Penguin Random House to narrate for viewers at home.
Previous Webinars
Check out the full recordings of our webinars. The links below will take you to a 15-minute preview on Dropbox. You'll have the option to download the full file on the side of the page.


  1. How Coronavirus Will Change Geopolitics
  2. Coronavirus: The Infodemic?
  3. Book Reading: A Hundred Suns
  4. Book Talk: The Cactus League
  5. Creative Insights With Marc Levy
  6. Crisis Management During COVID-19
  7. Economic Impacts of COVID-19
  8. Virtual Cooking Class With Melissa Clark
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