On Feb. 16, the Sacred Heart University College of Arts and Sciences sponsored the “American Democracy Under Siege: The Media and the Capitol Insurrection” colloquium. This was a panel discussion about the vulnerability of the media during Donald Trump’s presidency and his final days in office.

The colloquium discussed themes of justice, truth, politics, history, law and order, media, and multiculturalism.

The mediator was Prof. Mark Congdon, an assistant professor in Sacred Heart’s School of Communication, Media and the Arts.

The experts who spoke about the impact and failures of the media were Eric Deggans, Jill Collen Jefferson, and Suran Huang, a photojournalist who was at the Capitol during the events of Jan. 6.