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October 2, 2006
For Those Who Live in Boston...MIT COMMUNICATIONS FORUM Why Newspapers Matter Thursday, October 5, 5-7 pm, Bartos Theater, MIT Media Lab Jerome Armstrong (Crashing the Gate), Pablo Boczkowski (Digitizing the News), Danta Working journalists, media critics and digital visionaries discuss the ongoing transformation and apparent decline of American newspapers. Topics to be addressed: the aging of the newspaper reader, the emergence of citizens' media and the blogosphere, the fate of local news and the local newspaper, news and information in the networked future. This is the third in a series of forums that asks Will Newspapers Survive? Also in the Series co-sponsor: Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation Forums are free and open to the public. More information: A reception in the lower atrium of the Media Lab follows the forum.
CommentsHenry Jenkins is the Provost's Professor of Communications, Journalism, and Cinematic Art at the University of Southern California. Until recently, he served as the co-founder of the Comparative Media Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. More about Henry Jenkins is available here. 
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