Navigating the Information Landscape: Clarity in a Shifting World

At the kick-off to our Fall Learning Series, we were honored to welcome Dr. Claire Wardle, a renowned expert in misinformation, verification, and user-generated content. As leaders across our community grapple with an increasingly complex and often unpredictable information environment, we wanted to provide space and a perspective to help unpack the critical communication challenges emerging from today’s dynamic information ecosystem. Drawing directly from her research and extensive practical experience, including her work with the Council of Europe and the United Nations, Dr. Wardle provided actionable insights into understanding and mitigating the impact of misleading information.

This session was the first in a communications series that will also explore crisis communications management. 

You can find a recording of the Learning Session below or on YouTube. Tune in, rewatch, or share with friends to pick up all the learning dust you can!

Featured Speaker

Dr. Claire Wardle is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University. She is considered a leader in the field of misinformation, verification and user generated content. In 2015, Claire co-founded the non-profit First Draft, a pioneer in innovation, research and practice in the field of misinformation. She went on to co-found the Information Futures Lab at Brown University’s School of Public Health. Over the past decade she has developed an organization-wide training program for the BBC on eyewitness media, verification and misinformation, led social media policy at UNHCR, been a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School, and been the Research Director at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. She has authored a number of articles and reports, including Information Disorder: An interdisciplinary Framework for Research and Policy for the Council of Europe and A Conceptual Analysis of the Overlaps and Differences between Hate Speech, Misinformation and Disinformation for the United Nation’s Department of Peace Operations. She holds a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Pennsylvania.