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Government Transparency and Collaborative Journalism

MIT Stata Center, Room 155 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA

Minnesota Public Radio's Linda Fantin and Sunlight Foundation's Ellen Miller discuss how new ways of gathering and presenting information are evolving from a nexus of government openness and digital connectedness.

Online Migration of Newspapers

MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

David Carr and Dan Kennedy discuss the best and the worst examples of news on the net, online-only news sites, hyperlocal news and collaborative journalism, business models for online newspapers, and the impact of social media on journalism.

Micah Sifry

Civic Media and the Law

MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA

Micah Sifry and Daniel Schuman address the question: "What are the legal dangers for publishing secrets in the crowdsourced era?"

Joshua Benton

Online News: Public Sphere or Echo Chamber?

MIT Building 3, Room 270 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear), Cambridge, MA

As newspapers continue their mutation into digital formats and as news and information are available from a seeming infinity of websites, what do we actually know about the dynamics of news-consumption online?