[Mitworld] New: Astronaut Stephanie Wilson, Panel on Future of Newspapers

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[SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY MISSION TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
(STS-121)]

Wilson's inspiring first hand account of the July 2006 Discovery Mission

to the International Space Station provides practical insights into the
daily life an astronaut and details the experience of repairing cracks
in the shuttle's heat tiles.

SPEAKER:
Stephanie Wilson
NASA Astronaut


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/391/>

[QUOTE]
"We come down the stairs headfirst because we can. You can do that when
you're in space."

--Stephanie Wilson


EVENT HOST: MIT Sloan School of Management
<http://mitsloan.mit.edu/>

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[THE EMERGENCE OF CITIZEN'S MEDIA]

The newspaper industry as a whole is charting unknown territory, as the
web becomes a primary source for content that has traditionally been
solely in the newspaper's domain. This panel takes on the changes and
disruption caused by the web, and looks at ways the industry is trying
to reinvent itself.

MODERATOR:
David Thorburn
MIT Professor of Literature
MacVicar Faculty Fellow
Director, MIT Communications Forum


PANELISTS:
Dan Gillmor
Director, Center for Citizen Media

Ellen Foley
Editor, Wisconsin State Journal

Alex Beam
Columnist, The Boston Globe


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/394/>

[QUOTE]
"Journalism has been a lecture - we tell you what the news is, and you
either buy it or you don't. Now it's moving into something like a
conversation."

--Dan Gillmor


EVENT HOST: MIT School of Science
<http://web.mit.edu/science/>

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The MIT Center for International Studies
Starr Forum presents

[REPORTERíS NOTEBOOK: THE U.S. IN IRAQ]

A panel discussion featuring
George Packer, Staff Writer, The New Yorker
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, former Washington Post Baghdad Bureau Chief


Moderated by Barbara Bodine, former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen and
Visiting Scholar at MITís Center for International Studies
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