“Journalism, Alternative Facts and the Impact on Brand”

Emily Glazer is a banking reporter for The Wall Street Journal focusing on two of the largest U.S. banks: J.P. Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo. She covers all aspects of banking, from the hard hitters on Wall Street and alleged bribery in China to heightened rules and regulations, including terrorist financing and banking along the border. Most recently, she's spent the last 18 months focused on the retail banking sales practices scam at Wells Fargo that impacted as many as 2.1 million accounts, led to the firing of 5,300 employees and embroiled the bank in a spate of investigations. This spring, Emily was named a Rising Star by the News Media Alliance and received the New York Press Club’s award for consumer reporting. Last year she was a finalist for the Society of American Business Editors and Writers’ Larry Birger Young Business Journalist Award. Over the past eight years reporting for The Wall Street Journal, Emily has covered global bankruptcy and restructuring, consumer products companies like Procter & Gamble, personal finance and start-ups.

Oliver is a highly experienced media executive with a particular knowledge of video marketing and content distribution across digital channels. He is currently based in Los Angeles where he is building Unruly's business on the West Coast. Unruly works with brands and studios to get their videos seen, shared and loved across the open web. Previously, Oliver ran Unruly's business in Europe and has been part of the award-winning Unruly Executive team through start-up to scale-up and then to a successful exit to News Corp in September 2015. Prior to Unruly, Oliver held various senior commercial roles at Perform, a leading sports content and media group, that is one of the UK's biggest digital success stories.

Gabriel Kahn is a professor at the USC Annenberg School of Journalism, where he also is co-director of the Media, Economics and Entrepreneurship program. His principal research focus is studying the business models of the news industry. Before joining USC, Kahn worked as a newspaper correspondent and editor for two decades, including 10 years at The Wall Street Journal, where he served as Los Angeles bureau chief, deputy Hong Kong bureau chief and deputy Southern Europe bureau chief, based in Rome. He has reported from more than a dozen countries. In 1998, Kahn launched Italy Daily, a joint venture of the International Herald Tribune and Corriere della Sera, based in Milan, Italy. He has covered the U.S. Congress for the Washington, D.C.,-based Roll Call, and served as an editor and writer at The Forward, in New York City. He has a degree in Italian literature from Stanford University.