Date: Thursday, May 17, 2012. 4:15 PM.
Location: Vidalakis Dining Room at Schwab Residential Center
"#Hashtagged: How Social Media are Revolutionizing the News." Social media has worked it's way into our day to day existence. How are our new habits changing the way we get news and how that news is presented? Discussing these new trends are people who were present at the creation: Krishna Bharat, Founder of Google News; Andy Carvin, Senior Strategist, NPR Social Media; Sheigh Crabtree, Lead Editor and Strategist for Social, Yahoo! News and Yahoo! Finance and Susan Mernit, Co-Founder of Oakland Local, community news and training nonprofit. Moderated by James Bettinger, Director of the John S Knight Fellowships, Stanford.
Location: Vidalakis Dining Room at Schwab Residential Center
"#Hashtagged: How Social Media are Revolutionizing the News." Social media has worked it's way into our day to day existence. How are our new habits changing the way we get news and how that news is presented? Discussing these new trends are people who were present at the creation: Krishna Bharat, Founder of Google News; Andy Carvin, Senior Strategist, NPR Social Media; Sheigh Crabtree, Lead Editor and Strategist for Social, Yahoo! News and Yahoo! Finance and Susan Mernit, Co-Founder of Oakland Local, community news and training nonprofit. Moderated by James Bettinger, Director of the John S Knight Fellowships, Stanford.