January Hot Topic 2024- The Crisis in Local Journalism

Hot Topic Luncheon with Stet Media Group – “The Crisis in Local Journalism”
at the Mounts Botanical Garden

The League of Women Voters of Palm Beach County (LWVPBC) is inviting friends and supporters to another fascinating Hot Topic Luncheon next January at  Mounts Botanical Garden, where the three co-founders of Stet Media Group will discuss the crisis in local journalism and the ongoing erosion of fact-based civic engagement.

An informative discussion about Palm Beach County’s newest and toughest investigative news source with the three co-founders of the online newsletter:

Carolyn DiPaolo, respected editor who for 20 years managed the news operation of The Palm Beach Post, overseeing more than 50 editors and reporters including the “Corruption County” coverage that led to multiple arrests of local elected officials and winning numerous national awards.

Joel Engelhardt, who spent more than 40 years in the newspaper business, including 28 years at The Palm Beach Post where he was an investigative reporter, editorial page writer and columnist. As an investigations editor, his beat included local towns, large land deals and the massive effort to draw The Scripps Research Institute.

Pat Beall, who was named Florida Journalist of the Year in 2017 by the Florida Society of Professional Journalists for her reporting in The Palm Beach Post of local heroin users that resulted in Florida’s declaration of a statewide public health emergency. In 2020, as senior investigative reporter for USA Today Network, she shared a Peabody Award for the PBS/Frontline documentary “Whose Vote Counts.” The same year, she was part of the USA Today team whose exposes on Florida foster care abuses led to changes in state law.

Doors open at 11 am, Lunch begins at 11:30 am, the program starts at noon.

Registration is closed.