MIT IAP Science Journalism Panel 4 of 5: Trisha Gura
MIT IAP Science Journalism Panel 4 of 5: Trisha Gura
Talk by Trisha Gura, freelance science and medical journalist and author of the book, "Lying in Weight" (http://www.trishagura.com/). Part 4 of 5 of the IAP Science Journalism panel organized by the MIT careers office. NOTE: Part 5 is the question and answer session ...
MIT IAP Science Journalism Panel 3 of 5: Karen Weintraub
MIT IAP Science Journalism Panel 3 of 5: Karen Weintraub
Talk by Karen Weintraub, deputy editor of health and science at the Boston Globe. Part 3 of 5 of the IAP Science Journalism Panel organized by the MIT careers office.
MIT IAP Science Journalism Panel 2 of 5: Jonathan Fildes
MIT IAP Science Journalism Panel 2 of 5: Jonathan Fildes
Talk by Jonathan Fildes, BBC News Science and Technology reporter. Part 2 of 5 of the MIT IAP Science Journalism Panel.
MIT IAP Science Journalism Panel 1 of 5: Intro
MIT IAP Science Journalism Panel 1 of 5: Intro
Introductory remarks to the 2009 IAP Science Journalism Panel at MIT, organized by the MIT Careers Office. Part 1 of 5.
The Future of the News
The Future of the News
11/18/2008 6:00 PM MuseumEllen Hume, Research Director, MIT Center for Future Civic MediaDescription: Ellen Hume predicts a "good news conversation" with her MIT Museum crowd about the future of news, but all participants end up working very hard to find a silver lining in the dire situation ...
A Report Card on Media Coverage of the Presidential Election
MIT Communications Forum: A Report Card on Media Coverage of the ...
There's anxiety, outrage, and some wistfulness in this panel devoted to weighing the strengths and weaknesses of political reporting during the current campaign season.
So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits and the ...
So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits and the President Failed ...
05/07/2008 6:00 PM 32"141Greg Mitchell, Editor, Editor and Publisher MagazineDescription: Greg Mitchellhas found both comedy and tragedy in the shameless and near"universal complicity between the American press and the Bush Administration around the Iraq war and ...
Communicating Climate Change
Communicating Climate Change
Science, Advocacy, and Media. Panelists: Naomi Oreskes, Andrew Revkin, Kerry Emanuel, Kevin Conrad, Moderator: Boyce Rensberger, Thursday, April 10, 2008
Communicating Climate Change, Question and Answer
Communicating Climate Change, Question and Answer
Q&A session, held on Thursday, April 10, 2008
Life is Not Virtual
Life is Not Virtual
04/02/2008 3:30 PM Kirsch 32"123Tom BrokawDescription: In this heartfelt address, Tom Brokaw characterizes the transformation of the world by digital technology as a second "Big Bang," a time of great possibility, but also of danger. This revolution is being advanced not by "a small ...
Agents of Change: Model Partnerships with Academia
Agents of Change: Model Partnerships with Academia
01/30/2008 9:45 AM 32"123Joanne Kauffman, PhD '97, Advisor and former Executive Director, Alliance for Global Sustainability; Lennart Billfalk, Senior Advisor, Vattenfall AB; Theodore Smith, Executive Director, Henry P. Kendall Foundation; Elizabeth Kolbert, Staff ...
The World is Flat 3.0
The World is Flat 3.0
Elaborating on his World is Flat thesis, Friedman describes how this new global order puts creative, entrepreneurial individuals in the driver's seat, and poses distinct new challenges and opportunities.
Evangelicals and the Media
Evangelicals and the Media
04/05/2007 5:00 PM 3-270Amy McCreath, Episcopal Chaplain, MIT; Gary Schneeberger, Special Assistant for Media Relations, to James Dobson, Focus on the Family founder and chairman; Diane Winston, Knight Professor in Media and Religion, Annenberg School of Communications, University of Southern ...
Why Newspapers Matter
Why Newspapers Matter
10/05/2006 5:00 PM BartosJerome Armstrong, Founder, Netroots.com; Pablo Boczkowski, Professor of Communications Studies at Northwestern University ; Dante Chinni, Senior Research Associate, Project for Excellence in Journalism; David Thorburn, MIT Professor of LiteratureMacVicar Faculty ...
Reporter's Notebook: The U.S. in Iraq
Reporter's Notebook: The U.S. in Iraq
10/03/2006 5:00 PM BartosBarbara Bodine, Visiting Scholar at the MIT Center for International Studies (CIS) former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen ; George Packer, Staff Writer, The New Yorker; Rajiv Chandrasakaran, Author, Imperial Life in the Emerald City; Inside Iraq's Green Zone; Description: As ...
News, Information and the Wealth of Networks
News, Information and the Wealth of Networks
09/21/2006 5:00 PM 3-270Yochai Benkler, Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies, Harvard; Henry Jenkins, Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California; ; William Uricchio, Professor of ...
The Emergence of Citizen's Media
The Emergence of Citizen's Media
09/19/2006 5:00 PM BartosAlex Beam, Columnist, The Boston Globe; Ellen Foley, Editor, the Wisconsin State Journal; Dan Gillmor, Director, Center for Citizen Media; David Thorburn, MIT Professor of LiteratureMacVicar Faculty FellowDescription: Extra, extra, browse all about it! The newspaper ...
TV News in Transition
TV News in Transition
04/06/2006 5:00 PM BartosStuart Brotman, Founder and President, Brotman Communications; Visiting Scholar, Comparative Media Studies, MIT; Neal Shapiro, Former President, NBC News ; ; Juju Chang, Correspondent, ABC News Description: One of broadcast journalism's power couples reminisce about ...
Narratives of Science
Narratives of Science
Robert Kanigel poses the central question of this panel: "The storytelling express is leaving the station. Do we want to jump aboard, or under some circumstances, stay where we are?"
Discourses on Iraq and the Middle East
Discourses on Iraq and the Middle East
Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor, MIT Description: U.S. actions in Iraq get a thorough thrashing in this final chapter of the Reconstructing Iraq series. First, Yosef Jabareen sprints through editorial page cartoons from Arab print media, which represent the U.S. as immoral, abusive, greedy ...