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MIT WorldPresented by the Communications Forum.Co-sponsored by the Center for Future Civic Meda and the Technology and Culture Forum"In what remains of the black press, they don’t cover crises with any...
View ArticleWhat’s new at the MIT Center for Future Civic Media?
Based on this roster of speakers, the MIT Center for Future Civic Media exists in a constant state of productive ferment, if not adrenaline rush. In a series of brief, timed talks, 13 researchers...
View ArticleCommunications Forum on The Culture Beat and New Media
Celebrity culture and the brutal economics of print journalism have conspired to kill arts criticism, but it has begun migrating to the web, where it just may survive and even thrive. Panelists discuss...
View ArticleFCC's Eugene Huang on a National Broadband Policy
The digital revolution that brought us Facebook, Twitter and YouTube could help revive participatory democracy in the U.S., says Eugene J. Huang. He unveils the FCC’s plan for providing broadband...
View ArticleGuerrilla reporting in ‘difficult places’
In mid-2009, when thousands of Iranians took to the streets amid allegations of fraud in the June presidential election, the images of the protests that reached the West were almost exclusively those...
View ArticleKnight Foundation unveils 2010 Knight News Challenge grant recipients
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation — sponsor of the MIT Center for Future Civic Media — today announced their 2010 Knight News Challenge winners at the MIT Future of News and Civic Media...
View ArticleDenialism: Media in the Age of Disinformation
"People who care about science, care about rationality, who want to raise the level of science literacy and education — we’ve got to stop ignoring the fundamental reality of who we are, how we think...
View ArticleJournalist from Pakistan receives Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship
Rabia Mehmood, a journalist in the Lahore bureau of Express 24/7 Television in Pakistan, has received the 2010-11 Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship. Mehmood is the sixth recipient of the annual fellowship,...
View ArticleDigital forensics
The ability to fake digital images is now running far ahead of our ability to detect the fakes, experts told an audience at the Media Lab Tuesday night, at an event sponsored by the Knight Science...
View Article2011–12 Knight Science Journalism Fellows named
The Knight Science Journalism program at MIT has selected 12 journalists from eight countries for its 29th class of fellows. The journalists will study science, health, environment and technology at...
View ArticleUgandan journalist joins the Center for International Studies
Jackee Budesta Batanda — a Ugandan journalist who has reported on the vicious acid attacks of women as "revenge crimes" and the targeted murders of albinos — has been selected as the 2011-2012...
View ArticleFall Communications Forum explores local news, surveillance, cities and...
For more than 30 years, the MIT Communications Forum has played a unique role at the Institute and beyond as a locus for sustained exploration of the cultural, political, economic and technological...
View ArticleKnight Fellows offer tips on tackling the energy and climate science beat
Times are tough for science reporters, perhaps especially for those covering the energy and climate science beat. During a Jan. 31 panel, MIT’s Knight Science Journalism fellows chronicled the...
View ArticleWhat lies ahead for science and science writing?
The MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing turns 10 this year, and this Saturday saw many of the program’s 61 alumni back on campus to catch up and reminisce with fellow graduates, professors and...
View ArticleMIT's Communication Forum conducts a conversation for scholars — and citizens
For more than 30 years, the MIT Communications Forum has played a unique role at the Institute and beyond as a locus for sustained exploration of the cultural, political, economic and technological...
View Article3 Questions with a Student Leader: Tech Editor-in-Chief Jessica J. Pourian
Student leadership has long been an integral part of the out-of-classroom experience at MIT. In this series, we hear from some of the students in leadership roles in the MIT community.Jessica J....
View ArticleCommunicating the climate challenge
Using new ways to confront persistent challenges is one of MIT’s greatest strengths, and an idea reinforced this week in regard to climate change by the New York Times writer Andrew Revkin, author of...
View Article2012–13 Knight Science Journalism Fellows announced
Knight Science Journalism at MIT has selected 12 journalists from five countries for its 30th class of fellows. The following journalists will study science, health, environment and technology at MIT...
View ArticleSeth Mnookin wins 2012 Science in Society Award
Seth Mnookin, MIT assistant professor of science writing, and recently appointed co-director of the Graduate Program in Science Writing (GPSW), has been awarded the 2012 Science in Society Journalism...
View ArticleBorpujari, an independent journalist based in India, joins CIS
The Center for International Studies (CIS) announced recently that Priyanka Borpujari, an independent journalist based in Mumbai, India, has been selected as the 2012-13 Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow....
View ArticleThe sense of style
Steven Pinker, noted cognitive scientist and best-selling author, spoke to a standing-room-only crowd at MIT on Sept. 12, delivering the inaugural Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE)...
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Historian Craig Wilder featured in new Ken Burns film
Professor Craig Wilder, head of the MIT History section, served as a consultant on the new Ken Burns documentary, "The Central Park Five." He also appears in the film, providing historical perspective...
View ArticleNate Silver presents forecasting work as antidote to ‘terrible’ political...
Celebrated political forecaster Nate Silver has shot to fame by letting the data speak loudly about elections. But during an event at MIT on Thursday evening, Silver did some forceful talking himself,...
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