Thursday, January 17th: Peter Kovacs, Melinda Lowery

Advocate Editor Peter Kovacs, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, surveys the state of media in America with the mantra of fake news, accusations of bias and a host of options for consumers. Kovacs has led the state’s daily newspaper of record for nearly six years. University of North Carolina Professor Melinda Maynor Lowery discusses her book “The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle. Lowery is director of the Center for the Study of the American South.