Event: 'Convergence Journalism? Emerging Documentary And Multimedia Forms Of News' Print
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Date: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 At 05:00 pm
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E14 Room 633 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

75 Amherst Street, Cambridge

 

Abstract

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

Alexandra Garcia is a multimedia journalist for The Washington Post. She reports, shoots and edits video stories on topics ranging from health care and  immigration to fashion and education. 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 is the series producer and curator of Op-Docs, a new initiative at the New York Times for short opinionated documentaries by independent filmmakers and artists. He directed the feature documentary “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, 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