Eugene Scott, an award-winning journalist and SNF Agora Institute visiting fellow, will moderate three panels with some of Washington’s leading journalists, academics and scholars about the state of the political press in 2026 — and how it impacts the lives of young voters.
Session 1: Is the Mainstream Media Relevant in 2026?
Wall Street Journal politics reporter Sabrina Rodriguez and CNN contributor and SNF Agora Institute Professor Leah Wright Rigueur discuss the role of the mainstream media in a media climate where most young Americans are looking elsewhere for their political news — if anywhere at all.
Session 2: The Role of Storytelling in Changing Democracies
SAIS Observer Editor-in-Chief Krithiga Narayanan and Axios contributor Margaret Talev, founding director of Syracuse University’s Institute of Democracy, Journalism and Citizenship discusses how journalism can help shape democracies — for better or worse.
Session 3: My Media Diet, My Vote, and Me
MS Now anchor Jonathan Capehart and Brian Joseph, a vice president at the National Endowment for Democracy, discuss how the media content we consume (or ignore) shapes how we vote — if at all.
Please join us at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center to discuss, learn and think about the relationship between the media and young Americans today and heading into the 2026 midterm elections. Register today!
