Jonathan Martin, influential political journalist and fellow at the University of Southern California’s Center for the Political Future, will visit Worcester State University for an in-depth conversation on politics and journalism in the present time.
The event is scheduled for 11:30 a.m-1 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 22, in Sullivan Auditorium and is free and open to the university community and the public.
Joining Martin onstage will be Nathan Angelo and Anthony Dell’Aera, both associate professors of political science at Worcester State. The event is sponsored by the Office of the President and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Martin is the politics bureau chief and senior political columnist at POLITICO, where he writes a reported column on the inside conversations and big-picture trends shaping politics.
Prior to starting his column in 2022, he was the national political correspondent for The New York Times, serving as the publication’s top political reporter for nearly a decade.
He is the co-author of The New York Times bestseller This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future, which gave readers in-the-room access to the extraordinary events of the 2020 election and its aftermath. Martin regularly provides on-air political analysis for ABC, NBC, and CBS. He and his wife, Betsy, live in Washington, D.C., and New Orleans.
Martin has strong ties to Massachusetts. His father was raised in Monson, and his grandfather was an English teacher at both Monson Academy and Monson High School.
“Jonathan Martin is an eminent political journalist who has extensive experience working with and mentoring university students,” Russ Pottle, dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, said. “As we all work through our understandings of politics and the media, and how they relate to each other in the present moment, it’s important to have students hear voices from inside both those worlds.”
The conversation promises to be far-ranging and important, Pottle said. “From Mr. Martin’s conversation with Dr. Angelo and Dr. Dell’Aera—two of our distinguished political scientists—I expect that students and others attending will come away with a wider understanding of current issues but also with a new set of questions that they can pursue in their intellectual development,” he said.