OP THIRD WEDNESDAY: THE FUTURE OF MEDIA
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
6:00PM - 9:00PM
WHAT'S AHEAD FOR MEDIA IN 2010? INSIDERS TALK AT OP "THIRD WEDNESDAY"
INFLUENCERS STEWART, MURPHY, RICHARDSON, LABARRE and MILLER TELL YOU WHAT'S IN STORE
There aren't many places you can hear the inside track from media influencers like Pulitzer Prize-winning author James Stewart (top left), Emmy-winning CBS News producer Mary Murphy (top center), GiltGroupe honcho Nathan Richardson (top right), bestselling author Polly LaBarre (bottom left), publishing super-star Barbara Marcus (bottom center) or Newser editor-in-chief Caroline Miller (not pictured). The evening's program will be moderated by industry mainstay Gene Stone (bottom right).
But we've got them all at this year's edition of our "Future of Media" panel. This annual event usually sells out, so you'll want to reserve now. It's a rare opportunity to see these players on the same stage.
Will you be paying for news? Will Google's foray into social media fly? What's the Kindle's impact going to be? Will retailers like Gilt kill bricks-and-mortar stores? Are content shops like Demand Media the future of journalism? Does journalism, in fact, have a future?
This panel is a must if you work in media. But even if you just cruise Facebook or peruse a daily paper, you'll want to hear what these luminaries have to say.
Pulitzer Prize winner James B. Stewart is a staff writer for The New Yorker. His book, Disney War: The Battle for the Magic Kingdom, was a New York Times bestseller and won the Loeb Award for Best Business Book. His Heart of a Soldier was named "Best Book about 9/11" by TIME. His other bestsellers include Blood Sport, Blind Eye and Den of Thieves, the definitive account of 1980s Wall Street insider trading scandals. A Harvard-educated lawyer, he is currently the Bloomberg Professor of Business and Economic Journalism at Columbia University.
Mary McDonagh Murphy is an independent documentary director and writer whose work has appeared on PBS. Her documentary film, Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird, and the accompanying book, Scout, Atticus & Boo: Fifty Years of To Kill a Mockingbird, (Harper Collins) will appear in screening rooms and theaters, video on demand, as podcast, an e-book, a book in bookstores, on facebook and tweeted by jeanlouisefinch half a paragraph at a time. Murphy was a producer at CBS News for 20 years where she won six Emmy awards. She has written for Newsweek, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Post and Publishers Weekly. A native of Rhode Island, Murphy is a graduate of Wesleyan University and was a John S. Knight fellow at Stanford University.
Nathan Richardson began his career in Citibank's Emerging Markets Group and his online experience at dotBank, the first viral peer-to-peer payment platform. After the company was sold to Yahoo!, Nate rose to become the General Manager of Yahoo! Finance, leading the business to the top spot in the online finance space and earning a No. 1 ranking from Institutional Investor. From there, he headed up Dow Jones' online businesses, including WSJ.com, Barrons.com and Marketwatch. Most recently, Nathan was the CEO of ContentNext Media, where he oversaw the sale of the company to Guardian News & Media. Nathan joined GiltGroupe in 2009 as the head of Gilt's mens business. He led the conception & launch of the Gilt Man site and oversees the ongoing business. Nate holds degrees from Babson College and Georgetown University and sits on the board of Preview Networks and on the advisory board of Tile Financial. He served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal and recently took a sabbatical to be the country director for the International Rescue Committee's Liberia Program.
Polly LaBarre is a bestselling author, speaker, and television correspondent. She is the co-author of the bestselling book Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win and was on the founding team of Fast Company magazine. More recently, Polly has been a business and innovation correspondent for CNN and editorial director of the MIX (Management Innovation eXchange), a pioneering open innovation project dedicated to reinventing management for the 21st century.
Barbara Marcus has spent most of her career in the area of Children's Publishing and Media. Currently she is Strategic Advisor to Penguin Books USA and consulting with Macmillan USA focusing in the area of children's books. Prior to that, Barbara was President of Scholastic Children's Book Publishing and Distribution where she was responsible for all children's consumer book publishing and distribution in the United States, through school-based book clubs, school-based and direct-to-home continuity programs, school-based book fairs and the retail channel. After acquiring J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone for publication in the United States in 1998, Ms Marcus led the publishing effort for six out of the seven Harry Potter titles. Under her leadership, the Children's Book Publishing Division was the largest division of Scholastic and reached $1.2 billion in revenue. Ms. Marcus retired from the company in 2005.
Caroline Miller is a co-founder and the editor-in-chief of Newser. Prior to Newser, she was editor-in-chief of New York and Seventeen magazines, after more than a decade of daily newspaper experience. She has also worked as a consultant on a number of other start-up projects.
A graduate of Stanford and Harvard, moderator Gene Stone is a former Peace Corps volunteer, screenwriter, television producer, and journalist as well as a book, magazine, and newspaper editor for such companies as The Los Angeles Times, California, Esquire, Harcourt Brace, and Simon & Schuster. He has also ghostwritten more than thirty books (many of which were national bestsellers) for a diverse lot of people ranging from theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking to Yahoo! executive Tim Sanders. And, he has written several titles under his own name, including the bestselling The Bush Survival Bible (Random House), and The Watch (Abrams), the definitive book on the wristwatch. He lives in New York City, where he blogs for the Huffington Post.
WHERE:
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The LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th St. (map)
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PROGRAM:
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Mixer with beverage bargains at 6pm. Event Discussion at 7pm.
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PRICE:
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OP Members just $5; Nonmembers, $10. RSVP encouraged!
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