This event time has changed to 7 pm-8:30 pm.

On January 22nd, 2024, at 7:00 pm, veteran journalists and former colleagues Frank Bruni and Bari Weiss reunite for a discussion of objectivity in journalism, as part of the Program for Public Discourses’ Abbey Speaker Series, co-sponsored by Carolina Alumni. Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. Bruni has been a journalist for more than three decades, including more than twenty-five years at The New York Times, the last ten of them as an op-ed columnist who appeared frequently as a television commentator. This event is open to the public and does not require registration. Pizza will be served after the event and students can earn CLE credit. We expect large crowds for this event. We will begin handing out tickets to people in line at 5:45 at the Union Box Office. Doors open at 6:30. You can no longer reserve seats via email.

Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet Magazine.

Weiss is the winner of the LA Press Club's 2021 Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism. She is also the winner of the Reason Foundation’s 2018 Bastiat Prize, which honors writing that “best demonstrates the importance of freedom with originality, wit, and eloquence.” In 2019, Vanity Fair called Weiss the Times's "star opinion writer."

Weiss is a proud Pittsburgh native. Her first book, “How to Fight Anti-Semitism,” was the winner of a 2019 National Jewish Book Award. She lives with her wife and daughter in Los Angeles.

Frank Bruni has been a prominent journalist for more than three decades, including more than twenty-five years at The New York Times, the last ten of them as a nationally renowned op-ed columnist who appeared frequently as a television commentator. He was also a White House correspondent for the Times, its Rome bureau chief and, for five years, its chief restaurant critic. He is the author of four New York Times bestsellers, including "The Beauty of Dusk," which reached #5 on both the hardcover nonfiction and the combined print and e-book nonfiction lists. In July 2021, he became a professor at Duke University, teaching media-oriented classes in the Sanford School of Public Policy. He continues to write his popular weekly newsletter for the Times and to produce occasional essays as one of the newspaper’s contributing opinion writers. A Carolina alumni and Morehead-Cain Scholar, Bruni began his career as a student reporter for The Daily Tar Heel.