Adapting Journalism to the Web
How can professional reporters and editors help to assure that quality journalism will be recognized and valued in our brave new digital world?
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MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United States
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Engaging Your Audience in Co-Creation: The Power of the Crowdsourced Documentary
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesJigar Mehta is a documentary filmmaker and a journalist and currently co-creator of the collaborative documentary project, 18 Days in Egypt, about the ongoing Egyptian revolution.
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Convergence Journalism? Emerging Documentary and Multimedia Forms of News
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesHow is new access to the power of the visual changing our journalism? What current projects are particularly significant?
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A Conversation with Nate Silver
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater (Room 070) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesStatistician and political polling analyst Nate Silver will discuss his career -- from student journalist to baseball prognosticator to the creator of FiveThirtyEight.com.
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News or Entertainment? The Press in Modern Political Campaigns
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesMark McKinnon and Ta-Nehisi Coates discuss whether our political journalism is serving democratic and civic ideals.
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The Phoenix Burns Out: Remembering a Boston Institution
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesWhen the Phoenix announced its closing, the city lost a powerful cultural force and a vibrant source of information. We'll discuss the Phoenix's legacy.
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Hendrik Hertzberg in Conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates: What’s the “Journalism” in Opinion Journalism?
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 123 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesHendrik Hertzberg, best known from The New Yorker, has been one of the most influential opinion writers in and around Washington for decades.
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Long-form Journalism: Inside The Atlantic
MIT Building 66, Room 110 25 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesJames Fallows and Corby Kummer of The Atlantic chart the journey of a major feature story from conception to publication and speculate about the future of long-form journalism in the digital age.
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Big Data in Time-Critical Circumstances: The Philippines Relief Effort as a Case Study for Journalists and Responders
MIT Building 8, Room 119 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThis seminar will look at issues raised by a Big Data approach for both aid workers and journalists covering rapidly moving events.
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Philip Napoli, “Media Impact Assessment and Beyond: Thoughts on the Treacherous Task of Quantifying Journalistic Performance”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesThis presentation by Rutgers' Philip Napoli will focus on ongoing research that seeks to define and assess the field of media impact assessment.
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Documentaries, Journalism, and the Future of Reality-Based Storytelling
MIT Building 66, Room 110 25 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesRaney Aronson of FRONTLINE, documentary director Katerina Cizek, Jason Spingarn-Koff of the New York Times' Op-Docs, and the Guardian's multimedia editor Francesca Panetta.
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Is There a Future for In-Depth Science Journalism?
MIT Building 3, Room 270 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear), Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe leadership and reporting team of STAT -- a new publication that focuses on health, medicine and scientific discovery -- will discuss the publication’s progress and how the field of science journalism is changing.
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Virtual Reality Meets Documentary: A Deeper Look
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 123 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesA panel with some of the leading creators in virtual reality -- Raney Aronson-Rath, Jessica Brillhart, Nonny de la Peña, and Caspar Sonnen -- to better understand VR’s potentials and implications for documentary and journalism.
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Time Traveling with James Gleick
MIT Building 2, Room 190 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United StatesInternational best-selling author and science historian James Gleick discusses his career, the state of science journalism, and his newest book Time Travel: A History, which delves into the evolution of time travel in literature and science and the thin line between pulp fiction and modern physics.
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Race and Racism in the 2016 Presidential Election
MIT Building 3, Room 270 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear), Cambridge, MA, United StatesSlate's Jamelle Bouie on how race and ethnicity framed the election and how journalists and content creators can improve coverage of these issues moving forward.