March 31, 2009

Inside-Out: David Dobbs on managing your bandwidth: Blogging in the journalism mainstream.

David Dobbs writes for The New York Times Magazine, Slate, Audubon, and Scientific American Mind, where he is a contributing editor. "Buried Answers," one of his features for The New York Times Magazine, was included in the 2006 edition of Best American Science and Nature Writing. Another feature for The New York Times Magazine, "A Depression Switch," was selected for Best American Science Writing 2007. He also keeps his own blog, Neuron Culture, on science, nature, and culture. He is the author of three books: Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral, The Great Gulf: Fishermen, Scientists, and the Struggle to Revive the World's Greatest Fishery and The Northern Forest, with Richard Ober.

His talk is part of the SHERP program's three-year-old Inside-Out speaker series, moderated by Robert Lee Hotz, science columnist with The Wall Street Journal and a distinguished writer in residence at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.

  • WHAT: Discussion with David Dobbs, blogger, author and freelance magazine writer.
  • WHEN: Tuesday, March 31, 6:00 p.m.
  • WHERE: 7th Floor Commons, 20 Cooper Square

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