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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><img width=180 height=77 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CE0AAA.F89B2BC0"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Convergence Journalism? Emerging Documentary and Multimedia Forms of News</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Tuesday, Feb. 19<br>5:00 - 7:00 pm<br><a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=E14" target="_blank">E14-633</a> <a name=abstract></a><br><br><span class=arial1>Hybrid forms of multimedia, combining aspects of newspapers, documentary film and digital video <br>are a notable feature of today’s on-line journalism. How is this access to the power of the visual <br>changing our journalism? What current projects are particularly significant? What will this convergence <br>mean in the future? Our speakers will address these questions and more. </span><br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Speakers</span></strong><a name=speakers></a><br><br><span class=arial1><a href="http://alexandragarciamultimedia.blogspot.com/"><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Alexandra Garcia</span></strong></a> is a multimedia journalist for </span><em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Washington Post</span></em><span class=arial1>. Awarded an Edward R. Murrow <br>award, eight regional Emmy awards and named 2011 “Video Editor of the Year” by the White House <br>News Photographers Association, Garcia is currently a fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism <br>at Harvard University</span><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>.</span></strong><br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://jskoff.com/jason/Bio.html" target="_blank">Jason Spingarn-Koff</a></span></strong><span class=arial1> is the series producer and curator of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/opdocs" target="_blank" title="http://www.nytimes.com/opdocs">Op-Docs</a>, a new initiative at the </span><em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>New York </span></em><i><br><em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Times</span></em></i><span class=arial1> for short opinionated documentaries by independent filmmakers and artists. He directed the <br>feature documentary <a href="http://www.life2movie.com" target="_blank" title="http://www.life2movie.com">“Life 2.0”</a>, which premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and was acquired by <br>OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network’s Documentary Club, and his work has appeared on PBS, BBC, MSNBC, <br>Time.com and <i>Wired News</i>. In 2010-2011, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=arial11><em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Moderator:</span></em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://opendoclab.mit.edu/sarah-wolozin-director" target="_blank">Sarah Wolozin, </a></span></strong>director of the MIT Open Documentary Lab, has produced documentaries <br>and educational media for a variety of media outlets including PBS, History Channel, Learning Channel and NPR. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Co-sponsor:</span></em><span class=arial1><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <a href="http://opendoclab.mit.edu/" target="_blank">MIT OpenDocLab</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=arial1><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=arial1><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>All forums are free and open to the public.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=arial1><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=arial1><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>More information: <a href="http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum">http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=arial1><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=arial1><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=arial1><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>----------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Brad Seawell<br>MIT Communications Forum<br>MIT 14N-430<br>77 Mass. Ave.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Cambridge, MA 02139<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>617.253.3521<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=arial1><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p></div></body></html>