Ali Velshi is a cosmopolitan television correspondent and economics journalist. A longtime field journalist for NBC News, he previously held posts at CNN and Al Jazeera America. He is the author of books and magazine columns on financial well-being, as well as the host of the MSNBC news program "Velshi." In this episode of "The Civil Discourse," Velshi and Host Paula Marantz Cohen delve into the role of journalists to bear witness and hold to account those in power in a democratic society, particularly during the COVID-19 global pandemic and uprising over systemic racism and civil injustice.

Recorded June 11, 2020 through virtual conferencing during the COVID-19 pandemic (Philadelphia, PA, USA). This episode is a production of Marketing & Media, Pennoni Honors College, Drexel University.

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