Event

Open Studio Night 2016

The Studio 20 program at NYU presents: Open Studio Night 2016 where Studio 20 graduates present their final projects.

The Studio 20 program at NYU presents: Open Studio Night 2016

Studio 20 graduates will present their final projects. Drinks and hors d’oeuvres will be served. Conversation will be had. Luminaries of the digital journalism community in New York will be there. Josh Benton, director of Harvard’s Nieman Lab, will present his slide show: “The Year in Innovation: 2016.”

Greetings from the Studio 20 program at NYU:
Still the world’s only studio program in journalism education, focused on innovation, project-based learning, and figuring out where news needs to go. Every year at the fall term draws to a close we put on Open Studio Night, in which the program’s graduating students present their final projects in innovation, which they have spent six months working on.

This year’s projects include:

• A virtual reality strategy for Frontline PBS

• A tool for surfacing evergreen content at the Wall Street Journal

• A user-centric analytics dashboard for Quartz (qz.com)

• Improving Facebook’s live video feature as a journalistic tool

• How can the Huffington Post overcome all the barriers and gain a foothold in China?

• Introducing vertical video to the Financial Times social team

• Preserving news apps so developers in the future can learn from them (with ProPublica)

• Mining Facebook comments for engagement secrets at Fusion.net

• A 360-video approach to covering e-sports live for Daily Dot

As we do every year, we have asked Josh Benton, director of Nieman Lab, to review the year in journalism innovation and prepare a slide show that presents the highlights: the companies, the products, the tools, the people, and the ideas that pushed journalism forward this year. I think this will be very instructive.

So please make plans to join us:

Thursday, December 15

NYU Journalism
7th-Floor Commons
20 Cooper Square, New York, NY

Cocktails and chatter, 6:00PM
Presentations begin, 6:30PM
You’re done by 8:00PM, but can hang out and drink with us after.

You can RSVP by emailing me, Jay Rosen, at this address: jr3 [at] nyu.edu