Leading journalists from across the U.S. gather at the University of Georgia every year to consider what journalistic courage means and how it is exemplified by reporters and editors.
The setting is the McGill Symposium.
The most recent McGill Symposium was held in October 2011. Twelve McGill Fellows — undergraduate and graduate students selected by a faculty committee for their strengths in academic achievement, practical experience and leadership — joined eight McGill Visiting Journalists for a six-hour discussion.
Topics included:
- Resisting the retreat from foreign news
- Terrorism, tornados and telling visual stories
- The baseball story no one wanted told
- The courage to collaborate, cooperate
"The most effective part of the Symposium," wrote McGill Fellow Kimberly Davis "was being able to sit around a table and talk with the journalists who live this type of courage every day."
> Meet the McGill Fellows
> Meet the McGill Visiting Journalists
> Read the 2011 Symposium report [pdf]