Jeanine Finn @jefinn ?

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  • (hit post too soon!) The role of “Truth.” Without getting too epistemological….while a shared truth is important for a community, the role of newspapers and libraries in supporting multiple views is extremely complex. Do we want to be the gatekeepers? Libraries have long had selection policies and tools for evaluation; journalists have their own professional [...]

  • Title: Credibility, journalism, and libraries — ideas of trust and responsibility Host/Reporter: Jeanine Finn Participants: Andrew Ott Saul Tannenbaum Suzanne Sullivan Khara Whitney-Marsh Katie Ingersoll Ruth Urell Dietmar Wolfram Meredith McCulloch Alexa Pearce Marla Crockett Mike Kettross Jamie Helgun Troy Espe Mike LaBonte Stephen Lippman Debbie Holmes Discussion: We had a wide-ranging discussion highlighting several [...]

  • Jeanine Finn wrote a new blog post: Karen Gill from the Newport News Public Library…   1 year, 1 month ago · View

    Karen Gill from the Newport News Public Library System and I (Jeanine Finn from the School of Information at UT Austin) had a great conversation this morning. There are many shared values between journalists and librarians — both are positioned within their communities as trusted sources of information and are dedicated to informing citizens. We [...]

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