This episode, Steering Committee Member Anjali DasSarma interviews Joseph Torres, Senior Advisor in Reparative Policy and Programs at Free Press and co-author of the Media 2070 project. In this conversation, they discuss Torres’ work on journalism, media consolidation and media reparations, asking how we can redress past and present harms to imagine a better, more liberated future for all people. DasSarma and Torres center racial capitalism and racial hierarchies to critically understand journalism’s history and possible futures.
Anjali DasSarma is a PhD student at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studies journalism history, race and slavery. She draws from both critical cultural studies and critical political economy to trace the longue durée of structures of power, resistance and memory from colonial American newspapers to the future of journalism. She is invested in projects of dismantling capitalism and colonialism alongside building structures of hope and repair. She is a Steering Committee member at the Center for Media at Risk, the Media, Inequality and Change Center and the Center for Advanced Research for Global Communication.
Joseph Torres advises key Free Press staff in setting and evaluating Free Press and Media 2070 policy positions and priorities. He is also the co-creator of the Media 2070 project. Torres writes frequently on media and internet issues and is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media with Juan González. He is the 2015 recipient of the Everett C. Parker Award, which recognizes an individual whose work embodies the principles and values of the public interest. Before joining Free Press, Torres worked as deputy director of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
Music: Prism,Royalty Free Music by Theatre Of Delays courtesy of Bensound.com
