Video: 2021 Walter Roberts Annual Lecture

Panel says the US can do more to protect global media freedoms

By Yvonne Oh, IPDGC Program Coordinator

The 2021 Walter Roberts Annual Lecture featured a virtual panel comprising of Richard A. Stengel, former Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs (2014-2016), Amanda Bennett, former director of the Voice of America (2016-2020), and Professor Nicholas Cull, historian, and professor at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy in California. 

The discussion addressed the question of what the U.S. could do to protect global media freedoms and also how should the U.S. international broadcasting agencies be organized to address this challenge.

Our distinguished Panel:

Here is the recording of the event: