MIT Communications Forum: News or Entertainment – Press and Modern ...

Opening Remarks: Noel JacksonModerator: Seth MnookinPanelists: Ta-Nehisi Coates and Mark MckinnonRecorded April 11, 2013

The Boston Globe in the Digital Age

A Conversation with Nate Silver

The statistician and political polling analyst Nate Silver discussed his career and the ways in which statistics are changing the face of journalism.

Communications Forum: "Convergence Journalism? Emerging Documentary and ...

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 changing our journalism?

TEDxBeaconStreet: Science Should Be a Story — Tyler DeWitt

PhD candidate Tyler DeWitt discusses how scientists could better focus on communicating their main ideas through appealing narratives.

Manufacturing Processes: Hands On to Hands Off

From manual to semi-automatic to fully automatic, watch what methods you can use for some simple manufacturing tasks such as cutting and drilling.

New York Times writer David Carr discusses the use of digital ...

From "Politics and Popular Culture"

2012 MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference: Turning Data into Narrative

As media makers and members of the public, we increasingly have access to rich data sets that contain information about our communities, our politics and our government. Our panelists explore their strategies for finding and sharing stories embedded within sets of ...

2012 MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference: And Now for Something Completely ...

And Now for Something Completely Different A showcase of some of the more unexpected and provocative directions news and civic media may be taking in the future. Panel: Lorrie LeJeune- MIT, Moderator Larry Birnbaum-Northwestern University/Knight News Innovation Lab ...

2012 MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference: Internet Native News Networks

Internet Native News Networks If we were to start CNN today, it might look more like one of the networks featured in this panel. We take a whirlwind tour of new news networks and new models for reporting and sharing information in our connected age. Panel: Christina ...

2012 MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference: Moments of Profundity, with ...

Moments of Profundity, with Michael Maness Read more about the 2012 MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference: http://civic.mit.edu/conference2012

2012 MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference: Open Gov_What's Gone Wrong, What's ...

Open Gov_What's Gone Wrong, What's Gone Right? What's gone wrong and what's gone great? As we near the end of the (first term of) the Obama presidency, it's an appropriate time to review the successes, failures, and lessons learned in local, state and national efforts ...

Building the #Knowosphere: MITEI Earth Day Colloquium with Andrew Revkin

The NYT's Andrew Revkin on how new ways to share and shape ideas can help build durable progress on a finite planet.

"Adapting Journalism to the Web" with Jay Rosen and Ethan Zuckerman

How can professional reporters and editors help to assure that quality journalism will be recognized and valued in our brave new digital world?

Ethics and Forensics in the Age of Photoshop Photojournalism

April 5, 2011 - MIT Bartos Theater - Seminar, Knight Science Journalism at MIT There is new technology that can detect them, and even identify the camera that took them---like a ballistics test. Santiago Lyon and Hany Farid on the history of faked photos and ...