The 2025-26 Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture: The Future of Journalism
Bari Weiss, founder and editor of The Free Press and editor-in-chief of CBS News
Friday, February 27, 20265:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Schoenberg Hall
445 Charles E Young Dr. E
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Tickets go on sale on Thursday, Jan. 15 - 10:00 am!
Join us for a conversation with Bari Weiss and UCLA's Jim Newton
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and editor-in-chief of CBS News. She is the winner of the LA Press Club's 2021 Daniel Pearl Award, Reason Foundation’s 2018 Bastiat Prize, and The Dao Prize for The Free Press’s work on the Twitter Files. In 2019, Vanity Fair called Weiss the Times's "star opinion writer." Her first book, "How to Fight Anti-Semitism," was the winner of a 2019 National Jewish Book Award.
ABOUT THE MODERATOR
A native Californian, Jim Newton is a veteran journalist, author and teacher. In 25 years at the Los Angeles Times, Newton worked as a reporter, editor, bureau chief, columnist and, from 2007 through 2010, editor of the editorial pages. He joined UCLA in 2015 to teach in Communication Studies and Public Policy and to found Blueprint, a UCLA magazine addressing the policy challenges facing California and Los Angeles in particular. The magazine has been recognized for editorial and design excellence, and he serves as its editor-in-chief.
TICKET PRICES
- General Admission: $40 + $6.83 ticket office fees = $46.83
- UCLA Faculty/Staff: $25 + $5.89 ticket office fees = $30.89
- UCLA Students: $10 + $2.65 ticket office fees = $12.65
PLEASE NOTE
- UCLA Community: Please use your UCLA email to purchase tickets from the UCLA Central Ticket Office and show your UCLA picture ID at the door.
- General Admission: Please be prepared to show a government-issued picture ID at the door.
- No food or drink allowed in the venue
- No large bags, bulky equipment, or flash photography permitted
- There will be no wait-list or stand-by line on the day of the event.
- The nearest parking structure is UCLA parking lot 2 (Westholme Ave / Charles E Young Drive East)
PARKING INSTRUCTIONS
Attendees can purchase a $17 UCLA day permit in advance for parking lot 2 via the Bruin ePermit website. Scroll down to "UCLA Campus Event" and select the Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture.
Alternatively, attendees can opt to purchase an hourly or all-day pay-by-space permit on the day of the event. Click here for more information on UCLA visitor parking.
ABOUT THE DANIEL PEARL MEMORIAL LECTURE SERIES
In sponsoring the Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture Series, the Burkle Center for International Relations celebrates the memory of Daniel Pearl as a prominent journalist who dedicated his life to bringing joy and understanding to the world. Past presenters have included David Remnick of The New Yorker, Leon Wieseltier of The New Republic, Christopher Hitchens, CNN's Anderson Cooper, David Brooks and Thomas Friedman of The New York Times, ABC’s Ted Koppel, CBS’s Jeff Greenfield, NPR's Daniel Schorr, CNN's Larry King, former Secretary of State Dr. Condoleezza Rice, CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Ambassador Samantha Power, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bret Stephens, CNN's Fareed Zakaria, author and journalist Bob Woodward, CNN's Jake Tapper, French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy, former world chess champion and Russian pro-democracy leader Garry Kasparov, award-winning author and experimental psychologist Steven Pinker, and most recently, Haviv Rettig Gur, Journalist and Senior Analyst at The Times of Israel.
To learn more and support this lecture series, click here.
Sponsor(s): Burkle Center for International Relations, The Daniel Pearl Foundation