NPR and New York Times journalists visit Loyola’s campus to talk about political reporting
Loyola University Maryland will welcome NPR All Things Considered host Juana Summers and New York Times journalists and authors Annie Karni and Luke Broadwater for this year’s Caulfield Lecture on Tuesday, March 24, at 4 p.m. in the 4th Floor Program Room.
Summers, Karni, and Broadwater will talk about political reporting in today’s tumultuous news environment. Karni and Broadwater will also talk about their book, Mad House: How Donald Trump, MAGA Mean Girls, A Former Used Car Salesman, A Florida Nepo Baby, and a Man With Rats in His Walls Broke Congress, published in 2025. There are 35 free copies of the book available, and more copies will be available for sale.
Summers, Karni, and Broadwater will be in conversation with each other, and also answer questions from the audience. The event is free and open to the public, but advance registration is encouraged.
Juana Summers is a co-host of NPR's All Things Considered, alongside Ailsa Chang, Ari Shapiro, and Mary Louise Kelly. She joined All Things Considered in June 2022.
Summers previously spent more than a decade covering national politics, most recently as NPR's political correspondent covering race, justice, and politics. She covered the 2012, 2016, and 2020 presidential elections, and has also previously covered Congress for NPR. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications across multiple platforms, including Politico, CNN, Mashable, and The Associated Press. In 2016, Summers was a fellow at the Georgetown University Institute of Politics and Public Service. She got her start in public radio at KBIA in Columbia, Mo., on the campus of the University of Missouri. She is a graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism, and is originally from Kansas City, Mo.
Annie Karni is a congressional correspondent for The New York Times. She joined the paper in 2018 and was previously a White House correspondent, covering both the Trump and Biden administrations. Before that, she worked for Politico, where she covered the 2016 presidential election, and the New York Post and the New York Daily News, covering local politics. She has also written for New York magazine and Vogue. She frequently appears on television and radio programs.
Luke Broadwater is a congressional correspondent for The New York Times, where he has profiled congressional leaders, investigated federal spending, and played a key role in the paper’s coverage of the Jan. 6th attack on the Capitol, for which the Times was named finalist for a Pulitzer Prize. Prior to joining the Times, Luke worked for nearly a decide at The Baltimore Sun, where he was the lead reporter on a series of investigative articles that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting and a George Polk Award for political reporting. He frequently appears on television and radio programs for interviews
About the Caulfield Lecture
Now in its 35th year, the Caulfield Lecture series at Loyola was established by the family of Clarence J. Caulfield, a 1922 graduate who spent 26 years as an editor at The Baltimore Sun and was a mentor to such prominent writers as J. Anthony Lukas and Russell T. Baker. Hosted by the communication department, the Caulfield Lecture brings journalists and commentators of national stature to Loyola every year.