[Sci-tech-public] This week's Knight Science Journalism at MIT seminars!

[Eric Strattman]

Both seminars will be held in the Knight Conference room in E19-623!

April 10
Reporting about the Net in the Past and in the Future
John Markoff, New York Times.

Please note: this seminar begins at 4:45pm.

John Markoff joined The New York Times in March 1988 as a reporter for the business section.  He now writes for the science section from San Francisco.  Prior to joining the Times, he worked for The San Francisco Examiner from 1985 to 1988.

Markoff has written about technology and science since 1977.  He covered technology and the defense industry for The Pacific News Service in San Francisco from 1977 to 1981; he was a reporter at Infoworld from 1981 to 1983; he was the West Coast editor for Byte Magazine from 1984 to 1985 and wrote a column on personal computers for The San Jose Mercury from 1983 to 1985. He has also been a lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley School of Journalism and an adjunct faculty member of the Stanford University Journalism Department.

The Times nominated him for a Pulitzer Prize in 1995, 1998 and 2000. The San Francisco Examiner nominated him for a Pulitzer in 1987. In 2005, with a group of Times reporters, he received the Loeb Award for business journalism. In 2007 he shared the Society of American Business Editors and Writers Breaking News award. In 2007 he became a member of the International Media Council at the World Economic Forum. Also in 2007, he was named a fellow of the Society of Professional Journalists, the organization’s highest honor.In June of 2010 the New York Times presented him with the Nathaniel Nash Award, which is given annually for foreign and business reporting.

Markoff is the co-author of  “The High Cost of High Tech,” published in 1985 by Harper & Row.  More recently he wrote “Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier” with Katie Hafner, which was published in 1991 by Simon & Schuster.  In January of 1996 Hyperion published "Takedown: The Pursuit and Capture of America's Most Wanted Computer Outlaw," which he co-authored with Tsutomu Shimomura.  “What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture shaped the Personal Computer Industry,” was published in 2005 by Viking Books.
 

April 12
Conversation with Janet Silver, Literary Director, Zachary Shuster Harmsworth.

Please note: this seminar begins at 4:30pm.

Janet Silver brings more than three decades of experience as an editor and publishing executive to her work as a literary agent.  She was previously Vice President and Publisher at Houghton Mifflin Company, where she published works by Richard Dawkins, Jonah Lehrer, Natalie Angier, and Jerome Groopman, among others, and edited novelists Philip Roth, Tim O’Brien, and Jonathan Safran Foer.  As an agent, Janet represents writers in a wide range of both nonfiction and fiction. Among her  clients are former Knight Fellow Craig Simons, whose book The Devouring Dragon: How China Is Destroying Our Natural World is forthcoming,  and Ada Brunstein, a Science Writing Program graduate whose articles on technology have appeared in The Atlantic.   Other clients include Humaira Shahid, a leading Pakistani journalist and legislator; Brian Christian, author of The Most Human Human: What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us about Being Alive, a Wall Street Journal  bestseller; and Cheryl Strayed, whose new memoir Wild is a New York Times  bestseller. 



 
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