Nov. 18 Forum: 2024 Election Landscape
Join us at noon for a discussion with Bret Schafer and Joyce Karam on the 2024 Election Landscape at the University of Southern California Capital Campus, 1771 N St NW, Washington, DC 20036. A light lunch is being provided by PDCA for those who register in advance and who arrive by 11:45.The program is sponsored by PDCA and its partners, the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy and the George Washington University Institute for Public Diplomacy & Global Communication. PDCA is grateful to the University of Southern California for hosting the event.
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Bret Schafer is a senior fellow, Media and Digital Disinformation, for the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Bret is the creator and manager of Hamilton 2.0, an online open-source dashboard tracking the outputs of Russian, Chinese, and Iranian state media outlets, diplomats, and government officials. As an expert in computational propaganda, state-backed information operations, and tech regulation, he has spoken at conferences around the globe and advised numerous governments and international organizations. His research has appeared in the New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post, and he has been interviewed on NPR, MSNBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, and the BBC. Prior to joining GMF, he spent more than ten years in the television and film industry, including stints at Cartoon Network and as a freelance writer for Warner Brothers. He also worked in Budapest as a radio host and in Berlin as a semi-professional baseball player in Germany’s Bundesliga. He has a B.S. in communications with a major in radio/television/film from Northwestern University, and a Master’s in public diplomacy from the University of Southern California, where he was the editor-in-chief of Public Diplomacy Magazine.
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Joyce Karam is the senior news editor at Al-Monitor and a journalist with decades of experience covering the Middle East, US foreign policy and international affairs. She authors Al-Monitor’s weekly China-Middle East Briefing newsletter and serves as a professor of political science at George Washington University.
Born and raised in Lebanon, Joyce graduated with honors with a bachelor's degree in journalism and began her career at prominent local newspapers in Beirut, reporting on the post-war landscape. She pursued graduate studies in the United States, earning a Master's degree in international peace and conflict resolution. In 2004, she resumed her journalism career as the Washington correspondent and later as the bureau chief for the pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat. Over the past two decades, Joyce has worked for leading media outlets, breaking exclusive stories on the Middle East and US policy, and has interviewed high-profile figures including US presidents George W. Bush and Joe Biden.
Joyce is regular guest on NPR’s 1A and the Germany-based Deutsche Welle.