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Fall 2025 Colloquium Jenn Henrichsen - Mapping Precarity, Designing Resilience

Mapping Precarity, Designing Resilience: A Conceptual Framework for Securing Journalism Amid Authoritarian Drift #UWComm #UWCom #UW #uofwa About the Event: Knowledge professionals such as academics and journalists are facing intensifying cyber-physical and industrial precarity amidst rising authoritarianism, political polarization, and democratic backsliding in the United States. Journalists are called the “canary in the coal mine” because they are often the initial line of defense against powerful actors and thus serve as an early-warning system for declining freedoms and increased repression in society. In this talk, I’ll map how cyber-physical precarity is affecting journalism as an institution and what that portends for journalism’s role in an increasingly fragile, fractured, and captured media environment in the United States. I’ll conclude by providing a conceptual framework to help mitigate this precarity facing journalism, and by extension, other knowledge professions, with the aim of strengthening democracy more broadly. About the Speaker Dr. Jennifer R. Henrichsen is an Assistant Professor at the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University and the Research Director for the Washington News Ecosystem Project. She is Senior Personnel with the VICEROY Northwest Institute for Cybersecurity Education and Research (CySER), an Affiliated Fellow at Yale Law School's Information Society Project (ISP), and an Affiliated Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Media, Inequality & Change Center (MIC). Henrichsen’s research program addresses the intersection of journalism and technology with a particular focus on journalism’s adaptation to processes of change amidst rising political polarization, financial precarity, and democratic backsliding. Her research examines the myriad pressures shaping journalism and how these challenges affect journalism’s role in a democratic society. A former Fulbright Research Scholar, Henrichsen holds a BA from Pacific Lutheran University, MA degrees from the University of Geneva and the University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work has resulted in more than 30 publications, including three books and 12 peer-reviewed journal articles. Henrichsen is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, the first in WSU’s history. UWCommunication on Social Media Subscribe to UWCommunication on YouTube:    / @uwcomm   Follow UWCommunication on Instagram:   / uwcomm   Like UWCommunication on Facebook:   / uwcommunication   Follow UWCommunication on LinkedIn:   / uw-department-of-communication   About UWCommunication The Department of Communication at the University of Washington is committed to rigorous, relevant scholarship that speaks to public challenges and promotes social progress. We foster and teach equitable and ethical communicative practices in an intellectually diverse, innovative, and interdisciplinary environment. UWCommunication    / @uwcomm