Dear Friends of CMPI,
One year ago, as the world positioned itself to tackle an emerging pandemic, the CMPI debuted the Journal of Media and Public Policy, featuring research and reflections from scholars in the United States and around the world.
We did not yet know how drastically the Covid-19 crisis would alter our existence, or that millions of lives would be lost. But it was clear even in those early days that insights from medical and communication research would be vital to helping us understand the immediate and lasting consequences. To date, the world grapples with parallel pandemics – Covid-19 and misinformation (a.k.a - infodemic).
As we move into a second year fighting the pandemic and infodemic, CMPI remains committed to solutions and constructive journalism in times of crises as well as looking forward to life after pandemic and mapping trust building measures in journalism and public administration. We believe that researchers in the field of media studies, public health, and public policy have important roles to play in helping society move forward.
Over the past year, public health experts and journalists have shared their thoughts via mycmpi.org on varying solutions to the miasma of the novel health crisis in a generation.
In-depth Solutions Journalism remains vital to charting a path forward. With your partnership, CMPI can play a significant role in helping society to understand and recover from the crisis by supporting media projects to counter polarization and disinformation.
Sincerely,
Center for Media & Peace Initiatives
P.S. Your gift of any amount supports digitization of the Journal of Media and Public Policy addressing the ongoing effects of misinformation on Covid-19 pandemic.
