Anika Collier Navaroli Named 2024-2025 McGurn Senior Fellow for Media Integrity
The University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) and Levin College of Law today announced that Anika Collier Navaroli has been named the McGurn Senior Fellow for Media Integrity for 2024-2025.
The fellowship, funded through a $2 million commitment from UF alumni Linda and Ken McGurn, is focused on understanding the dynamics that have undermined information trust and develop practical solutions. Navaroli will be based at UFCJC’s Consortium on Trust in Media and Technology.
Navaroli is an award-winning journalist, lawyer and researcher focused on the intersections of media, technology policy and human rights. Throughout her career inside tech companies, think tanks, centers of research, advocacy organizations and classrooms, she has developed unique insights on the real-life implications spanning the American ideals of free expression, democracy and safety and their complicated interactions with emerging technologies.
Navaroli, a 2009 Journalism graduate from UFCJC, grappled firsthand with some of the most historic moments in social media history, working as a senior policy official at Twitter and subsequently at Twitch. In addition to her UF degree, she has a degree in media law from the University of North Carolina School of Law and a master’s degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Her experience in higher education includes her continued role as a Senior Fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, where she writes about social media, artificial intelligence and technology policy. She was previously a Practitioner Fellow at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, where her first-of-its-kind research focused on understanding the distinct impacts of regulating online speech. Navaroli was also a Public Voices Fellow on Technology in the Public Interest with The OpEd Project, held in collaboration with the MacArthur Foundation, where she published over a dozen opinion pieces and essays.
As the McGurn Fellow, Navaroli will draw from her experience working in Trust and Safety on policy teams at technology companies to integrate those principles into the curriculum at UFCJC, particularly as a potential career path for journalists. She’ll be lecturing in classes at both UFCJC and Levin, developing modules to add to existing courses and helping the colleges develop new courses focused on technology policy.
“I’m honored that my career pathway has brought me back to where it began at UFCJC,” Navaroli said. “I look forward to building the infrastructure to pave the path from journalism and law school into careers in technology policy for the next generation of practitioners. And as always, Go Gators!”
Posted: September 10, 2024
Category: Alumni News, College News, Trust News
Tagged as: Anika Collier Navaroli, Consortium on Trust in Media and Technology, McGurn Senior Fellow for Media Integrity
