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School's InDigital literacy in the AI era (Part 2)How can schools help students develop digital literacy in the classroom? And how can these techniques be applied to how we consume news and identify reliable information?On this episode of School’s In, recorded live on campus in May 2025, we welcome a panel including GSE Professor Emeritus Sam Wineburg, Stanford journalism lecturer Janine Zacharia, high school teacher Valerie Ziegler, and Stanford undergraduate student Alvin Lee. The panel discusses the importance of teaching students how to accurately navigate the internet, and how this approach to digital information can be built into course curricula. Our guests tackle several to...
2025-08-0731 min
Grey Matter with Michael KrasnyJanine Zacharia - The Middle East, the Era of Noise and the Future of JournalismAre we at an inflection point in the Middle East and what lies ahead for fact based journalism? Those two questions dominate the interview with long-time Middle East journalist, analyst and former bureau chief Janine Zacharia, who spoke in depth with Michael Krasny about President Trump's trip to the Gulf region; the $400 million jet gift from Qatar; Hamas held hostages and Israel increasingly viewed as a pariah state.First-rate insightful and timely analysis from the Stanford based journalist who spoke about why she obsesses over the diminution of fact based news and fears for her students as...
2025-05-301h 00
KQED's ForumIsraeli-Hamas Ceasefire Agreement Brings Relief, Uncertainty and Hope for the End of Brutal WarThe first Israeli hostages and Palestinian political prisoners have been released and Gazan exiles have begun returning to their war-ravaged communities after the Israel and Hamas ceasefire deal went into effect Sunday. After 15 months of brutal war, the ceasefire has brought much relief but also uncertainty about whether it will last and under what terms. We talk about what the ceasefire agreement means and what could happen next.Guests:Omar Dajani, professor of law, University of the Pacific's McGeorge School of Law; board member, A Land For All; former senior legal advisor, Palestine Liberation Organization's N...
2025-01-2157 min
The PR Wine DownHow-To Tips: Improving Credibility in Journalism & Fighting for Your Dream JobToday on the PR Wine Down, hosts April and Laura tackle two key issues in today’s PR industry discourse: trust in journalism and the shaky job economy.
First, in the PR News segment, Laura shares a recap of “Polarization and the Press” from the blog page at Stanford’s Journalism program. In the post, Janine Zacharia, Carlos Kelly McClatchy lecturer in Stanford’s Department of Communication, and Emily Handsel, a senior at Stanford studying political science, unpack 12 actionable steps that journalists can take to enhance their credibility and rebuild trust in their reporting. Tune in as A...
2024-06-2122 min
World ClassHow Did We Get Here? A Conversation on the Crisis in the Middle EastTo understand why the conflict in Gaza is so complex, you have to understand the history of Israel's relationship with Palestine and Hamas well before October 7, 2023. In this episode of World Class, we bring you a conversation with Ambassador Dennis Ross and Ghaith al-Omari, two experts on the Middle East, who help contextualize the current situation in Gaza, offer a framework for how to understand the conflict between Israel and Hamas, and share their thoughts on what it will take to bring stability to the region. Their discussion is moderated by Janine Zacharia, a lecturer in the Department of Communication...
2023-12-181h 20
The Z3 PodcastWhy Is This Israeli-Palestinian War Different? (Z3 Podcast Ep. 7: Janine Zacharia)In the latest Z3 podcast episode Rabbi Amitai Fraiman, our host and head of Z3, is joined by Janine Zacharia, a journalist and professor at Stanford University to discuss what has changed in how the media and students view Israel and Palestine in this current period of war.
Janine Zacharia has reported on Israel, the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy for close to two decades including stints as Jerusalem Bureau Chief for the Washington Post, chief diplomatic correspondent for Bloomberg News, Washington bureau chief for the Jerusalem Post, and Jerusalem correspondent for Reuters. She appears...
2023-12-1523 min
Audio Articles from The Stanford DailyJanine Zacharia on covering Israel and Palestine amid the ‘fog of war’Read the article here: https://stanforddaily.com/2023/12/07/janine-zacharia-on-covering-israel-and-palestine-amid-the-fog-of-war
2023-12-0800 min
KQED's ForumCalifornia Communities React to the Israel-Hamas WarCommunities across California with connections to Israel and Gaza are bracing for more violence, death and devastation after President Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday officially declared war on Hamas, the militant group that controls Gaza. On Saturday Hamas unleashed a deadly attack that Israel characterized as the “worst massacre of Israeli civilians” in history. Now almost 2,000 people are dead and thousands more wounded after Israel in turn launched unrelenting retaliatory strikes in the Gaza strip. We’ll learn more about what’s happening and how Jewish and Arab communities in California are responding to and processing the conflict.Guests:
2023-10-1156 minGrey Matter with Michael KrasnyJanine Zacharia - Realpolitik, Media Control and Democracy's DeclineWe met with renowned Middle East correspondent and journalism lecturer, Janine Zacharia to do a round up on Middle East current events. The scorecard is sobering. We are at an inflection point. While popular attention turns to Russia and China, press freedoms across the region continue to decline. The circulation of deliberately false information is a central cause. This fuels rampant political polarization, which in turn helps autocrats win. Violence and oppression against journalists is on the rise. Our own internal political dysfunction makes coherent foreign policy nearly impossible. As America's standing and influence in the region wanes, China (who...
2023-06-0858 min
Commonwealth Club of California PodcastKatherine Corcoran: A Murder, a Coverup, and the True Cost of Silencing the PressIn 2012, Regina Martínez, a prominent journalist reporting on political corruption and abuse in Mexico, was found brutally murdered in her bathroom. This tragic act of violence sent a clear message: No journalist in Mexico was safe. Troubled by this news, Katherine Corcoran, then leading the Associated Press coverage of Mexico, traveled to Veracruz to uncover the truth about Martínez’s death.Now Corcoran reveals what she learned during her investigation and recounts her own experiences battling cover-ups, narco-officials, red tape and even threats.Hear more about this harrowing story as well as the ongo...
2022-12-031h 02
Scaling LawsHow to Report on Hacks and DisinformationOn this episode of Lawfare's Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Alina Polyakova and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Janine Zacharia, the Carlos Kelly McClatchy Lecturer in Stanford’s Department of Communication, and Andrew Grotto, director of the Program on Geopolitics, Technology and Governance and the William J. Perry International Security Fellow at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center.In 2016, a key part of the Russian influence campaign involved the hacking and leaking of emails belonging to the Democratic Party and Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. Journalists at mainstream news outlets rushed to write up the email...
2022-02-0344 min
The Future of EverythingJanine Zacharia: What is the future of media?In the Future of Everything radio show, Stanford bioengineer Russ Altman discusses the future of journalism, fake news, and how to become an informed media consumer with Janine Zacharia, a Stanford lecturer in journalism.
Zacharia was Jerusalem Bureau Chief and Middle East Correspondent for the Washington Post from December 2009 through April 2011, and previously chief diplomatic correspondent for Bloomberg News.
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2017-03-1126 min