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3Qs at the U with Science Sam: (Ep. 8) Jeffrey Dvorkin on journalism in a time of global pandemic

Stay-at-home orders and physical distancing have made the practice of journalism more challenging. And yet, as one University of Toronto expert argues, good journalism is more important than ever.

In episode eight of 3Qs at the U, Samantha Yammine 鈥 the alumna, neuroscientist and science communicator better known as Science Sam on social media 鈥 speaks with Jeffrey Dvorkin, the director of the journalism program at the University of Toronto Scarborough, about the difficulties of gathering news during COVID-19 and the need for mainstream media to cut through misinformation.

鈥淥ne of the outcomes that I worry about is, can journalism still convey a sense of who we are as a culture鈥f we are barely out there,鈥 Dvorkin says. 鈥淚t鈥檚 up to mainstream media鈥o help the public figure out what is going on, what information they need to be aware of and what information they can comfortably ignore because it鈥檚 just nonsense.鈥

3Qs at the U is a weekly video series in which Yammine asks a 茄子直播 researcher three questions on a timely topic. It鈥檚 produced by 茄子直播 Scarborough interactive digital producer Cory Lawrence.

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