A Lyman T. Johnson 75th Anniversary Event The Future of Journalism and the Health of our Democracy with The Atlantic Wednesday, March 20, 2024 - Singletary Center Concert Hall

FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC - RSVP NOW

This lecture will provide students, faculty, staff, and the community an opportunity to engage with influential national figures in journalism. Jenisha Watts is a graduate from the University of Kentucky. She will discuss her path and the experiences that led her to becoming a Senior Editor at The Atlantic. Jeff Goldberg, Editor-In-Chief at The Atlantic, will discuss the ever-evolving stages for journalists and how they create opportunities for us to think critically and spark our intellectual curiosity.

If you have any questions you would like to ask, please submit them on the registration form.

About the Editors

Jenisha Watts - Senior Editor for The Atlantic

Jenisha Watts is a University of Kentucky graduate and the Senior Editor at The Atlantic. Before joining The Atlantic in 2020, she was a culture editor for ESPN’s The Undefeated and a features and commentary editor for espnW, and she edited articles for ESPN The Magazine. She’s also held editorial roles at Time Books, Essence, and People.

Jeffrey Goldberg - Editor-in-Chief for The Atlantic

Jeffrey Goldberg is the Editor-in-Chief of The Atlantic, and is the moderator of Washington Week with The Atlantic on PBS. He joined The Atlantic in 2007 as a national correspondent and in 2016 was named the 15th Editor-in-Chief of The Atlantic, which was founded in 1857. In 2022 and 2023, The Atlantic won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence; this is the highest honor bestowed by the magazine industry. Under his leadership, The Atlantic has won the first Pulitzer Prizes in its history—three over the past three years—and set new audience and subscription records during his editorship. In 2020, Goldberg was named Editor of the Year by Adweek, which also named The Atlantic Magazine of the Year.

Before joining The Atlantic, Goldberg served as the Middle East correspondent and then the Washington correspondent for The New Yorker. Earlier in his career, he was a writer for The New York Times Magazine and New York magazine. He began his career as a police reporter for The Washington Post. Goldberg is the author of Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror. A former fellow of the American Academy in Berlin, he also served as a public-policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and as the distinguished visiting fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Goldberg is the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Magazine Award for Reporting, the Daniel Pearl Award for Reporting, the Overseas Press Club’s award for human-rights reporting, and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Prize for Best Investigative Reporting.

About The Atlantic Magazine

Independent since 1857. For more than 160 years, The Atlantic has been committed to their founding credo: to be “of no party or clique.” They are considered a home for today's best writers and the magazine for curious minds.

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