The 2026 Lucius W. Nieman Symposium will bring together journalists, scholars and practitioners to examine how the media can hold institutions accountable in an information landscape that is fractured along lines of politics, platform and power.
Meenakshi Ravi, executive producer in the programming department of Al Jazeera English UK, will be the keynote speaker. Ravi’s work centers on several recognizable themes: the power and role of media, South Asian affairs and global politics, and a consistent examination of who holds influence in society. She serves on the juries of several prestigious media awards, including the Royal Television Society Awards and the Orwell Prize.
Featured panelists for the Symposium also include Wilfredo Miranda Aburto, an independent journalist from Nicaragua who co-founded the digital outlet Divergentes, and Stephanie Craft, a professor of journalism and associate dean for academic affairs in the College of Media at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
This year’s Nieman Symposium will be on Friday, March 27, at 9 a.m. in Beaumier Suite B/C at Raynor Library. A full schedule can be found here. Attendance is free of charge.
The Nieman Symposium is named after Milwaukee Journal founder Lucius W. Nieman. This annual event brings journalists and media scholars to campus to discuss the most vital issues facing the free press both domestically and globally.
