October 2025 In-Person Lunchtime Lecture

Wed Oct 29 2025 at 11:30 am to 01:00 pm UTC-05:00

Etter-Harbin Alumni Center | Austin

Texas Exes
Publisher/HostTexas Exes
October 2025 In-Person Lunchtime Lecture
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Join us in-person at the Etter-Harbin Alumni Center for our October Lunchtime Lecture with Dr. David Ryfe.
About this Event

Join us in-person for our October Lunchtime Lecture - “The Future of Journalism”

Journalism has experienced great disruption, so much so that some observers question whether the profession will survive. In our October Lunchtime Lecture, Dr. Ryfe will discuss how and why journalism has been disrupted, the current state of the profession, where it is headed and what it all means for journalism’s role in democratic life.

Please note: Our October Lunchtime Lecture will be hosted in-person at the Etter-Harbin Alumni Center. Tickets are $30 for Texas Exes members, $40 for nonmembers and include a catered lunch. Registration closes at midnight on Tuesday, October 21. We are unable to offer refunds within 7 days of the event.



Meet the Guest Speaker: Dr. David Ryfe
Professor and Director, School of Journalism and Media, Moody College of Communication

David Ryfe is the Director of and Professor in the School of Journalism and Media at The University of Texas at Austin. During his career, he has published widely in the areas of presidential communication, political communication, public deliberation, and the history and sociology of news. These days his work mostly concerns the ongoing disruption of American journalism.

His book, Can Journalism Survive? (Polity, 2012), presents the most sustained ethnographic study of American newsrooms in a generation. His answer to the question raised in the book’s title is that journalism is and will survive but will adapt in ways that change both large and small elements of the practice. His most recent book, Journalism and the Public (Polity, 2017), explores the many ways in which journalism is shaped by the particular configuration of public life in which it is embedded. This fact is why journalism everywhere around the globe shares a family resemblance, but is nowhere practiced the same.

His current work (Local News in a Digital Age, forthcoming) involves a study of eight news organizations located in a large Midwestern city. In this study, he is interested to learn the current state and near-term future of local journalism. Previously, Professor Ryfe served as director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa. In his more than 10+ years as an academic administrator, he has worked with faculty and staff to help prepare the next generation of journalists to thrive in the rapidly changing industry of journalism.

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Etter-Harbin Alumni Center, 2110 San Jacinto Boulevard, Austin, United States

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