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Columbia Dialogues

November 13, 2007

The Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the Hearst Foundation presented their annual look at our changing profession, with an emphasis on new media and online journalism. Join a discussion led by six media influencers about current trends. This was a different kind of panel, with a real conversation among the participants and audience - with no Powerpoint in sight.

Panelists:

• Josh Cohen, business product manager, Google News
• Hossein "Hoder" Derakhshan, an Iranian-born blogger, journalist, and Internet activist (coming from Toronto)
• Jonathan Dube '97, director of digital programming, CBC (coming from Toronto); read about Jonathan.
• Andrew Lih, author of a new book on Wikipedia and an expert on Chinese media (coming from Beijing); read about Andrew.
• Mindy McAdams, new media education pioneer and Knight professor at the University of Florida (coming from Gainesville); read bout Mindy
• Michael Rogers, resident futurist, The New York Times (coming from midtown); read about Michael.
• Moderator: Sreenath Sreenivasan, dean of students, Columbia Journalism Schiil and WNBC-EV tech reporter.

Live & Archived Webcast:
Producer: Citizen journalism platform GroundReport.com
Location: groundreport.tv