[Sci-tech-public] COMMUNICATIONS FORUM: "Emerging Documentary and Multimedia Forms of Journalism, " on TUESDAY, Feb. 19, 5-7 pm in E14-633

[Brad Seawell]

Convergence Journalism? Emerging Documentary and Multimedia Forms of News

Tuesday, Feb. 19
5:00 - 7:00 pm
E14-633 <http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=E14>  

Hybrid forms of multimedia, combining aspects of newspapers, documentary
film and digital video 
are a notable feature of today's on-line journalism. How is this access to
the power of the visual 
changing our journalism? What current projects are particularly significant?
What will this convergence 
mean in the future? Our speakers will address these questions and more. 

Speakers

 <http://alexandragarciamultimedia.blogspot.com/> Alexandra Garcia is a
multimedia journalist for The Washington Post. Awarded an Edward R. Murrow 
award, eight regional Emmy awards and named 2011 "Video Editor of the Year"
by the White House 
News Photographers Association, Garcia is currently a fellow at the Nieman
Foundation for Journalism 
at Harvard University.

Jason Spingarn-Koff <http://jskoff.com/jason/Bio.html>  is the series
producer and curator of Op-Docs <http://www.nytimes.com/opdocs> , a new
initiative at the New York 
Times for short opinionated documentaries by independent filmmakers and
artists. He directed the 
feature documentary  <http://www.life2movie.com> "Life 2.0", which premiered
at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and was acquired by 
OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network's Documentary Club, and his work has appeared on
PBS, BBC, MSNBC, 
Time.com and Wired News. In 2010-2011, he was a Knight Science Journalism
Fellow at MIT.

Moderator: Sarah Wolozin,
<http://opendoclab.mit.edu/sarah-wolozin-director> director of the MIT Open
Documentary Lab, has produced documentaries 
and educational media for a variety of media outlets including PBS, History
Channel, Learning Channel and NPR. 

Co-sponsor: MIT OpenDocLab <http://opendoclab.mit.edu/> 

 

All forums are free and open to the public.

 

More information: http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum

 

 

 

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Brad Seawell
MIT Communications Forum
MIT 14N-430
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Cambridge, MA 02139

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