Sponsored by the Alumni Association of Princeton University 

Moderator:

Eliza Griswold ’95
Director, Program in Journalism; Professor of the Practice, The Council of the Humanities, Princeton University

Panelists:     

Thomas “T.R.” Reid ’66
Reporter, Author

Andie Tucher ’76
H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of Journalism, Columbia University

Maria Ressa ’86
CEO and Co-Founder, Rappler; Professor of Practice, Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA)

Josh Boak ’01
White House Reporter, Associated Press

MODERATOR

Eliza Griswold ’95
Eliza Griswold is a Pulitzer-Prize winning writer, a translator and a poet. She was named director of the Humanities Council’s Program in Journalism at Princeton in 2024. She writes for The New Yorker, covering religion, politics and the environment. Her most recent book, “Circle of Hope: A Reckoning With Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church,” was a finalist for the 2024 National Book Award. Griswold has received fellowships from, among others, the Guggenheim Foundation and the New America Foundation, and won numerous awards, including the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for nonfiction, the Rome Prize in Poetry by the American Academy in Rome and a PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.

PANELISTS

Thomas “T. R.” Reid ’66
T. R. Reid is a reporter, author and documentary filmmaker. At The Washington Post, he covered Congress and four presidential campaigns, and then moved overseas as the paper’s bureau chief in Tokyo and London. He was a regular commentator for 15 years on NPR’s “Morning Edition.” He has written and hosted documentary films for PBS’s “Frontline” and National Geographic TV. Reid has published 10 books in English and three in Japanese. In his 80s, he has become a columnist for AARP The Magazine. He was a member of Princeton’s Board of Trustees and a Ferris Professor of Journalism.

Andie Tucher ’76
Andie Tucher is a historian and journalist who writes on the evolution of conventions of truth-telling in journalism, photography, personal narrative and other nonfiction forms. Her most recent book, “Not Exactly Lying: Fake News and Fake Journalism in American History” (2022), has won multiple awards. She is also the author of “Happily Sometimes After: Discovering Stories from Twelve Generations of an American Family” (2014); “Froth and Scum: Truth, Beauty, Goodness, and the Ax Murder in America’s First Mass Medium” (1994); and many articles in the academic and popular press. Before her role at Columbia, Tucher served as speechwriter for Clinton/Gore ’92. She was also editorial associate to Bill Moyers at Public Affairs Television, editorial producer of the ABC News documentary series “The Twentieth Century” and associate editor of the Columbia Journalism Review. A classics major at Princeton, Tucher holds a Ph.D. in American civilization from New York University.

Maria Ressa ’86
As CEO of Rappler, the top digital-only news site that is leading the fight for press freedom in the Philippines, Maria Ressa endured constant political harassment and arrests by the Duterte government. Rappler’s battle for truth and democracy is the subject of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival documentary “A Thousand Cuts.” For her courage and journalistic integrity, Ressa has received numerous accolades, including the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. In 2022, she was appointed by the United Nations secretary-general to the leadership panel of the Internet Governance Forum and serves as its vice chair. At SIPA, she co-leads the Technology & Democracy Initiative at the Institute of Global Politics. Ressa’s books include “Seeds of Terror: An Eyewitness Account of Al-Qaeda’s Newest Center of Operations in Southeast Asia,” “From Bin Laden to Facebook: 10 Days of Abduction, 10 Years or Terrorism” and “How to Stand Up to a Dictator.”

Josh Boak ’01
Josh Boak is a White House reporter for The Associated Press (AP). He also covered the U.S. economy and the electorate for AP. Boak initially came to Washington to work on Bob Woodward’s book “Obama’s Wars,” having previously been on the staff of The Chicago Tribune and The Blade (Toledo, Ohio). His reporting has been recognized with the Livingston Award and as a Pulitzer-Prize finalist. He graduated from Princeton with an A.B. in English and received a master’s degree from Columbia University.