‘Democracy and the Informed Citizen’ What’s True, What’s False and What’s Important? 2018 Program Catalog Cover image: Iculig/123rf.com SDHC Staff: Sherry DeBoer, Executive Director Welcome
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[email protected] “Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it.” Kyle Schaefer, Program and - Jonathan Swift Development Officer
[email protected] In 1550, the word “fact” first appeared in Sherry DeBoer, the English language, 100 years after the Carolyn Marshall-Speakman, Office invention of the printing press. It would Manager Executive
[email protected] Director set off the revolution that would create newspapers, and along with it, patterns Deb Delaney, Staff Assistant of democratization and social reorganization now paralleled by Facebook posts,
[email protected] bloggers, citizen Web sites, and 24-hour news cycles. In this context, SDHC is embracing the exploration of “Democracy and the Informed Citizen.” The proliferation of news and information sources of varying quality and relevance Table of Contents leads me to encourage you to join a conversation in the coming months. We will collaborate with the Federation, the Pulitzer Board, the SD Newspaper Association, Donate to SDHC...........................1 SDPB, and academic and cultural leaders to explore “What’s true? What’s false? And what’s important?” A Pulitzer Prize-winning national editor will kick off events Festival Preview...............................2 on April 26, followed by a series of public forums and community-tailored events. Young Readers One Book............3 Scholars will facilitate Book Club to Go, discussing selections like Overload and the One Book, Informing the News.