10/15/2025
*UPDATED TIME: 6:00-7:00 PM*
How do we report about politics, especially now when the nation is so divided? How do Sewanee English majors find their way into a journalism career? Sewanee alumnus and New York Times Culture Editor Mike Peed and The Sewanee Purple editorial staff talk about all this and how to navigate modern day journalism and politics. Join us at the Social Lodge on October 16th, 6:00 PM! The event is sponsored by the English and Creative Writing Department, the Politics Department, Career Readiness, and the University Lecture Committee.
Want to learn more about Mike Peed? He is currently an editor at The New York Times. Previously, he worked at The New Yorker. An article he wrote for that magazine on a blight destroying the world’s banana crops was cited by the Best American Science and Nature Writing series. He has also edited at Men’s Journal, and he began his career at National Journal, in Washington.
