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Pimp Your Podcast – a panel discussion at the CUNY J-School

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For you audio folks/podcasters – I was recently on a panel at The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism’s called “Pimp your Podcast” with Amanda Aronczyk (moderator), Jim Colgan of Soundcloud, Adam Davidson of Planet Money, and Ashley Milne-Tyte, producer of the amazing podcast The Broad Experience. We talked about the differences between online audio and broadcast radio and how to sell a podcast idea to a funder or news organization, among other things. It was a lot of fun, and I thought some of you might find it useful.

‘Pimp Your Podcast’ Panel – October 22, 2012 from CUNY Grad School of Journalism on Vimeo.

Audio/Radio, Events, Workshops

Pitch Perfect, The Art of Editorial Persuasion, happening at the Third Coast Conference

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The Third Coast Conference is coming up Oct 5-7 and there are still slots open for the Association of Independents in Radio pitch panel. Get your ideas heard by the best in the biz! Details below.

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Hello Friends and fellow Producers:
I’ve got editors lined up from NPR’s Arts Desk, Marketplace, the BBC, KCRW’s Independent Producer’s Project, Snap Judgment and This American Life. Now all you have to do is STEP ON UP and submit pitches for AIR’s pitch panel, “Pitch Perfect: The Art of Editorial Persuasion” happening at the Third Coast Conference in Chicago October 5-7.

DEADLINE for PITCHING: Monday, August 20, 5pm PT.

This is your chance for 12 of you to get the ear of one of the best editors in the business and, at the same time, help provide a great learning experience for your colleagues.

How do program editors decide what to put on the air (or online)? How do they work with independent producers to try new ideas or launch a national series? Typically these kinds of questions are discussed behind closed doors, leaving many wondering what the magic key is to creating a productive partnership. This session is one of AIR’s most popular panels from the Third Coast Conference. We take you to the creative “sweet spot” with pre-selected producers pitching story ideas and projects to some of public radio’s most experienced editorial gatekeepers.

Here’s more details on how to become a pitcher, plus a link to our application form:
http://airmedia.org/PageInfo.php?PageID=675

Email any questions you have to me at pitch@airmedia.org.

Best,

Emily Botein
pitch@airmedia.org

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Radio Cabaret, June 9, 7:30pm, Brooklyn

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Another super cool event from the folks at Radio Cabaret. Details below.

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A couple months back we announced on this list that a group of us were experimenting with the medium of radio in performance.  In March, we had our first ever Radio Cabaret at Union Docs in New York.  I'm pleased to announce that we're back for more this Saturday, June 9th.
If you're as interested as we are in how to bring our radio work into other mediums, I encourage you to come check us out.
The last event sold out and we had to turn people away, so get 'em while they're hot!

RADIO CABARET

Saturday June 9th, 7:30-9:00pm
UNION DOCS 322, Union ave. Brooklyn NY

Radio Cabaret is a variety show featuring documentary audio based performances. We bring the traditions of public radio to the stage through storytelling, musical performance, visual animation, theater and live interviews. Stylistically similar to a variety show or radio magazine, performances range in topic but share a common reference to the art of radio broadcast.

This event is a living breathing hour of radio performed quarterly and hosted by our fabulous DMC (disembodied MC), Chris Berube.

Featuring: Contortionist Amazing Amy, Laura Hadden, Brendan McMullan, Michal Richardson, Alexis Powell, & Random Tape
for more info:
radiocabaret.org

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Upcoming at UnionDocs, Brooklyn

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The latest events from UnionDocs in Brooklyn. Details below!
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Saturday, June 16 at 7:30pm. $9 suggested donation.
 
New York-based documentary filmmaker Kathleen Foster will screen and discuss her films Afghan Women: A History of Struggle (2007) and 10 Years On, Afghanistan & Pakistan (2011). “Foster challenges viewers to examine how Afghan women have continually borne the dual costs of American imperial ambitions on the one side, and the barbarity of feudal warlords on the other.” — Prerana Reddy, Queens Museum of Art, New York.
 

Sunday, June 17 at 7:30pm. $9 suggested donation.
Post-Vietnam, Paul bought a trailer for his family to live in. Many bad winters (upstate, near Troy) made the mobile home unlivable, so he took matters into his own hands and started to build a house – around the trailer. He never made any blueprints. 30 years, 4 floors and 100 windows later, the house is almost done. A home movie documentary,Be Like An Ant spends some time in the house. Mike Plante in attendance for the discussion. His uncle Paul Plante, subject of "Be Like An Ant," will join via conference.

Coming up next weekend: 

Radio Cabaret – Summer Edition

Saturday, June 9 at 7:30pm. $9 suggested donation.

Radio Cabaret is a variety show where radio stories come to life before your eyes. Producers bring the traditions of public radio to the stage through storytelling, musical performance, visual animation, theater and live interviews. Performances range in topic but share a common reference to audio documentary. This hour unfolds like a living breathing radio magazine with a radio host (disembodied MC) and a variety of acts. This evening will feature the work of public radio journalists Brendan McMullan, Michal Richardson, Alexis Powell and Laura Hadden. Their performances will vary in length from five to fifteen minutes.

Coming up this weekend:

Nomadic Archive: Abraham Ravett presents the Works of Tom Joslin

Saturday, June 2th at 7:30pm. $9 suggested donation.


Abraham Ravett will screen and discuss two of Tom Joslin’s works:  Blackstar: Autobiography of a Close Friend from 1976, and the posthumously assembled work The Architecture of Mountains (2010). Ravett writes the following about the project: Before he left for LA in 1981 to pursue a career in Hollywood, documentry filmmaker Tom Joslin completed an innovated and to this day, historically significant film called Blackstar: Autobiography of a Close Friend (1976, 85 minutes, color, sound, 16mm). It was one of the first autobiographical, diary format films that addressed the issue of gay identity and coming out to one’s family. It’s a beautifully made film, formally inventive, and still resonates on many fronts.

 


If you could help us spread the word about these events in any of your publications, we would really appreciate it. If you do end up publishing something about the events, please let us know!

Thanks,

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Neta Alexander
Associate Programmer
UNIONDOCS.ORG
322 Union Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11211
347.820.3213

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Occupy the Film Festival! September 15-16, New York City

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Submission deadline for Occupy the Film Festival is June 30. Details below.
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On the first anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, "Occupy the Film Festival" is bringing together the most compelling and innovative films of the movement for a weekend of screenings at Anthology Film Archives, the premiere independent cinema in downtown New York City. Festivities will include prominent guest speakers, an Occupy photography exhibit by award-winning photographers, an Occupy fashion show, and guerrilla projections by the famous Illuminator.

The festival is organized by a coalition of radical mediamakers and activists, with the support of many well-known alternative media groups around the city and country.

We are now inviting submissions via our website and would be very honored to receive yours by June 30, 2012:

http://occupythefilmfestival.com/

Please pass this message on far and wide. We'd like to reach all 99% filmmakers!

In solidarity,
Michelle Fawcett
occupythefilmfestival@gmail.com

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Free NYC Event May 29 “Throw Like a Girl – Pitching the Hell Out of Your Stories”

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This promises to be a great event, hosted by NYT's Amy O'Leary – directed at women but open to all, and it's FREE! Details below.
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FACEBOOK INVITE
https://www.facebook.com/events/134503483350516/

PANEL DESCRIPTION:

Grab your notebooks and mark your calendars – Her Girl Friday is thrilled to announce our upcoming event:

"Throw Like a Girl: Pitching the Hell Out of Your Stories"

A free panel with the best editors in the business, hosted by New York Times reporter Amy O’Leary.

WHEN: Tuesday, May 29
WHERE: Public Assembly

70 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY
TIME: 7pm-9pm, followed by a boozy mixer (DJ tbd)

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A few months ago, VIDA released its 2011 count comparing female and male bylines in major publications. As usual, the results were pretty dismal. 

The Atlantic? 235 male bylines and 91 female ones.
The New Yorker? 459 dudes, 165 ladies.
Harper's? 141 men, 42 women.

When the editor of Harper's was asked about the gender disparity, she explained, "The dearth of female bylines is an industry-wide issue. There may be some sort of a historical hangover from past years that has resulted in us getting fewer pitches from female writers, but I would like to change that equation."

All this got us thinking: How do we change the equation? 

WE PITCH. MORE. STORIES. 

While we're at it, why not learn a few tips from some of the best editors in the business?

Our panelists are:

Evan Ratliff, founder of The Atavist
Carolyn Ryan, Metro editor of The New York Times
Jessica Pressler, contributing editor to New York Magazine
Katherine Lanpher, award-winning print and broadcast journalist and teacher at the Op-Ed project.

Oh, and the best part? 
It's FREE.

*Dudes are totally welcome to attend.

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The Audible Picture Show comes to NYC!, May 8, 6:30pm

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And another cool NYC event coming up. This one in Brooklyn, May 8.
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Just want to spread the word about a creative audio event taking place next Tuesday!

NYC producers and friends I encourage you to indulge in an hour of sonic exploration:

THE AUDIBLE PICTURE SHOW
What! No pictures?
The Audible Picture Show is a totally unique cinema experience – an international touring show of short audio works to be enjoyed in dark cinemas, mixing a diverse range documentary, spoken word, experimental and musical works. During its decade long international tour the show's been to the Third Coast International Audio Festival, Garage Moscow and Rotterdam Film Festival and includes works by renowned musicians Momus and Max Richter, artists Torsten Lauschmann and Helena Gough, radio artist Julie Shapiro, and film makers Andrew Kotting and Tony Hill.

On Tuesday 8th May (6:30pm) it reaches reRun GastroPub Theater and will premiere a new work by Brooklyn radio artist Kaitlin Prest. Curator Matt Hulse will be present for Q&A at the close of the picture show.

Hope to see you there, it's going to be fun 🙂

http://www.facebook.com/events/365387596841556/

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The Hustle – Freelancing in Radio

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The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism is hosting a panel on freelancing in radio. It's a great line up – don't miss it! Details HERE and below.

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The Hustle: Freelancing in Radio…and Other Media, Too

Friday, May 4, 2012 from 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM (ET)

It takes more than good sources and writing chops to make it as a freelancer in radio. To pay the bills without a boss, you need strategy, time management skills, smart pitches, good contacts…and an eye for opportunity.

Two successful freelancers will explain how they mix and match media, topics, and beats to deliver the goods. You’ll also hear from editors about what they look for in a story and the storyteller. Julie Snyder of “This American Life” and David Krasnow of “Studio 360″ will take live pitches from graduate students at the CUNY J-School and give their raw, unedited feedback.

Bring your questions, we’ll provide great radio conversation, banh mi, and beer.

Free for CUNY J-School students and alumni
$5 for everyone else
RSVP to Lili Grossman, lili.grossman@journalism.cuny.edu

Panelists:

Alex Goldmark (moderator) has served several roles at WNYC – New York Public Radio, including senior Producer, reporter, and editor. Before that, he was an executive producer of two shows at Air America Radio. He has reported locally and internationally on business, social enterprise, arts, technology, justice, and media for over a dozen radio programs, including NPR’s “Morning Edition,” “On The Media,” and APM’s “Marketplace.” He writes for such publications as Fast Company andGOOD magazine.

David Krasnow is the senior editor of “Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen,” public radio’s weekly national program on the arts and pop culture. As an editor and writer, he has worked in various media covering music, art, design, land use, history, science, and health care. Formerly the reviews editor ofArtforum, he has contributed to the Village Voice, Jazz Times, Metropolis, The New York Observer, andThe Wire, and remains a contributing editor for Bomb. He teaches radio writing to print journalists at Mediabistro and has appeared as a panelist at the Third Coast International Audio Festival and the Public Radio Program Directors conference. He began filing for “Studio 360″ with a profile of experimental musician Pauline Oliveros and joined the staff in 2003. For the program’s American Icons series, he produced features on Andy Warhol’s soup cans, the folk ballad “John Henry,” and Jimi Hendrix’s “Star-Spangled Banner.” He was first on air at age 17 on his college station, WESU.

Monica Miller works as a freelance reporter covering current events, politics, and breaking news for various news organizations across New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Her work has been heard on CBS Radio, NPR, WHYY, WBGO, WABC, and WOR. She has also worked as a reporter for the largest 24-hour television news network in the region, News 12 New Jersey, and written for thePhiladelphia Inquirer and The Times of Trenton. In 2003, Monica produced the two-part series, “Jazz Under the Nazi Regime” which won her regional awards for Best Radio News Series. Monica was also honored by the North Hudson Islamic Educational Center and the Muslim and Arab Communities of New Jersey for her work covering the Islamic community after the 9/11 attacks.

Julie Snyder is the senior producer at Public Radio International and WBEZ’s “This American Life.” That means she’s in charge of finding material for the program. Hundreds of people wrote to the show after hearing her story about battling the phone company in episode 253. Before joining “This American Life,” she was a reporter for WGN radio in Chicago, and was news director at KZSC, Santa Cruz’s public radio station.

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Upcoming at UnionDocs

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The latest from UnionDocs for you NYC folks.
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Future Events at UnionDocs:


Everything’s Personal: Documentaries and Narrative Shorts from the New School


Monday, May 14 at 7:30pm. $9 suggested donation.

Independent filmmaker Caveh Zahedi, best known for his autobiographical films, also teaches a personal documentary class at the New School in which students are asked to make a film every week on a given topic. “The Personal Documentary” showcases the work of his students. All of the films are approximately 3 minutes long, and all of them were made in 2012. This evening will also include Narrative shorts from the screen studies senior seminar eugene lang college of the New School.

 

The Future Well-Made: On the Conditions for a Personal Vision


Saturday, May 19th at 7:30pm. $9 suggested donation.

A theoretical nuclear physicist, a media critic and a philosophy of religion professor reveal the mechanisms and the framing devices they use for envisioning the future. Paul Levinson, Agnes Mocsy and Michael Waltemathe in attendance for discussion. Moderated by Tom Klinkowstein.

Holocaust Reloaded: Israeli Artists Deconstruct Trauma,History and Commemoration

Sunday, May 20 at 7:30pm. $9 suggested donation.


We will be screening four provocative, original and fascinating works commenting on the loaded history of artistic depictions of the Holocaust. Rona Yefman and Tamar Latzman in attendance for screening and discussion moderated by UnionDocs' Associate Programmer Neta Alexander.


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Between Perp Walk and Victory Dance: Thoughts on Sex, Money and color TV

Friday, May 11 at 7:30pm. $9 suggested donation.


On May 14, 2011, Guinean Sofitel housekeeper Nafissatou Diallo accused the then president of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss Kahn of France, of forcibly and violently trying to have sex with her. Haig Aivazian will be revisiting the details of the so-called DSK saga as it unfolded in the media over the course of the past year. His findings will serve as a tool to advance alternate and underlying readings of the scandal and how it televises and visualizes the intersections of class, race, gender, sex, money, power and journalism.


Local News: Three Neighborhood Films by John Smith

Saturday, May 12th at 7:00pm. $9 suggested donation.

Between 1988 and 1996, John Smith made three quasi-documentary works that register the disastrous effects of the construction of the M11 Link Road on the filmmaker’s East London neighbourhood. While all three function to preserve the memory of this vanishing landscape, and implicitly participate in the large-scale protests that met the highway’s construction, Smith — one of England’s most consistently inventive avant-garde filmmakers — puts the material to various suggestive uses, crafting three very different formal investigations whose unfolding stimulates a profound reflection on memory, time, history, and the lived experience of the city.

Coming up this weekend:

Branded Documentary – Work and Play

Saturday, May 5th at 7:30pm. $9 suggested donation.

We look where documentary, marketing, music, and interactive design can meet to produce the “bread and butter” to fuel your creative practice. There is a long history of documentarians creating for clients – we will examine this relationship and try to find that happy place between work and artistic practice. This panel will bring together Ari Kuschnir and Scott Thrift (m ss ng p eces), David Usui and Ben Wu (Lost & Found Films). Moderated by Tom Roston (PBS POV).

Scene: Brooklyn – A Master Class with Filmmaker Jem Cohen

Sunday, May 6th at 2pm. $20.

Filmmaker Jem Cohen will screen and discuss rarely seen films including Real Birds, the Patti Smith portrait, Long for the City, some of the Gravity Hill Newsreels (about Occupy Wall Street) and excerpts from recent projects including the multi-screen live show,We Have an Anchor, and his upcoming feature.

Kinetic Cinema: Screening and Discussion with Amy Ruhl

Monday, May 7th at 7:30. $9 suggested donation.

Filmmaker Amy Ruhl curates a provocative program of Kinetic Cinema that examines how the female body, under the unique technology of cinema, has been the primary source of spectacle since the beginnings of film. Amy Ruhl, Kerrie Welsh and Amy Greenfield in attendance for screening and discussion. Presented with Pentacle’s Movement Media

If you could help us spread the word about these events in any of your publications, we would really appreciate it. For more information about these events, please check out the links bellow. If you do end up publishing something about the events, please let us know!

Thanks,

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Neta Alexander
Associate Programmer
UNIONDOCS.ORG
322 Union Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11211
347.820.3213

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upcoming @COLUMBIAJOURN EVENTS

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Upcoming events at Columbia jschool for you NYC folks. Also livestreaming if you're elsewhere.

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Folks: Three events at Columbia Journalism School I wanted you to know about.

* TONIGHT: In-person & Livestream – Hearst New Media Lecture by Rebecca
  MacKinnon (@RMack). A reminder about tonight's lecture by digital
  pioneer MacKinnon, who is going to make the case that in pursuit of
  commercial self-interest, many news organizations are supporting
  business practices, technologies, and legislation that will diminish the
  Internet's openness and freedom.  While this might be good for business
  in the short term, in the long run everybody will lose – especially
  journalists. Details below and at http://bit.ly/cjhearst12

* MONDAY, APRIL 23, 5:30-7 pm: Michael Moran, a former Hearst Lecturer, is
  back with us for a special book event in conversation with Prof. Tom
  Edsall, NYT politics columnist and long-time WashPost correspondent.
  They will discuss Moran's highly anticipated new book, "The Reckoning:
  Debt, Democracy, and the Future of American Power." Moran, a geostrategy
  analyst at Roubini Global Economics, the Council on Foreign Relations,
  and other leading institutions, explores how a variety of forces are
  converging to challenge U.S. leadership–including unprecedented
  information technologies, the growing prosperity of countries like
  China, India, Brazil, and Turkey, and the diminished importance of Wall
  Street in the face of global markets. To RSVP please email:
  dos.events.rsvp@gmail.com – [SUBJECT: MICHAEL MORAN]

* WEDNESDAY, MAY 23: NYC + ONLINE – Social Media One-Night Stand, an
  advanced social media workshop for Columbia J-school Continuing
  Education program, with special guest speakers and more. Details at
  http://bit.ly/sreeonenight

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SAMPLE TWEET: Thurs, 7p ET in-person & webcast – Rebecca MacKinnon (@RMack) Hearst Lecture @ColumbiaJourn – http://bit.ly/HSwB1l #cjhearst #cjsm

Dear Colleagues: This is one of our signature digital-media events each spring. Open to the public. Food and drink served.

[Questions to sree@sree.net or @sree on Twitter; hashtag for this event: #cjhearst and link for tweeting: http://bit.ly/cjhearst12 ]

This year's installment of our popular annual new media lecture series – please pass on to your friends in NYC – also available via live video and more at http://bit.ly/cjhearst12

Nicholas Lemann, Dean of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, cordially invites you

to the annual Hearst Foundation New Media Lecture

Thursday, April 19, 2012 (6:30-9 pm; live video from 7 pm ET)
Columbia Journalism School
116th St & Broadway (#1 train to 116th St)

"Collateral Damage: News Organizationsw, Free Speech, and the Internet" by Rebecca MacKinnon (@RMack), author of the brand-new "Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom" and Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation

Join us for the annual lecture by our Hearst New Media Professional in Residence, a major thinker – and do-er – on digital issues. This year, Internet journalism pioneer Rebecca MacKinnon will make the case that in pursuit of commercial self-interest, many news organizations are supporting business practices, technologies, and legislation that will diminish the Internet's openness and freedom. While this might be good for business in the short term, in the long run everybody will lose – especially journalists.

The Hearst New Media Professional-in-Residence is appointed each academic year to participate in the educational activities of the school. The appointment has been made possible by a generous gift from the William Randolph Hearst Foundation. Recent professionals-in-residence have included: Krishna Bharat, founder of Google News; Steven Berlin Johnson, noted digital media expert and bestselling author; Kenneth Lerer, Huffington Post’s chairman and co-founder; Brian Storm, former lead multimedia producer, MSNBC.com; Adrian Holovaty, former editorial innovations editor, WashingtonPost.com, among others.

6:30-7:00 pm – reception – drinks and light food

7-8:30 pm ET – lecture + Q&A (live webcast)

No charge; no RSVP required; all are welcome.

NOTE: Free open, wi-fi available in the lecture hall for journalists, bloggers and others.

We'll be webstreaming this live at http://bit.ly/cjhearst12 – and using the #cjhearst hashtag.

SAMPLE TWEET: Thurs, 7p ET in-person & webcast – Rebecca MacKinnon (@RMack) Hearst Lecture @ColumbiaJourn – http://bit.ly/HSwB1l #cjhearst #cjsm

Read/hear some of the previous Hearst New Media Lectures and learn more about the Hearst programs at Columbia: http://bit.ly/cjhearst

OUR THANKS TO THE HEARST FOUNDATION FOR ITS GENEROUS SUPPORT OF NEW MEDIA EDUCATION AT THE COLUMBIA JOURNALISM SCHOOL

==>     IF YOU ARE NOT AN ALUM AND WOULD LIKE TO KNOW ABOUT COLUMBIA J-SCHOOL TALKS, LECTURES, PANELS:

Signup to get alerts about future Columbia Journalism School events: http://bit.ly/columbiasignup

We have a separate webcasting program that includes recordings of SOME of the in-person events. Keep your eye on http://blogtalkradio.com/columbiajournalism (more than 100 conversation are archived there).

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