Join Be Social Change on Thursday, October 27th at 7:00 PM for a panel discussion exploring the The Future of Media: Using Stories and Journalism as Vehicles for Creating Change.

Media has an immense capacity to accelerate social progress or do just the opposite. At its core, media is a feedback mechanism for society and like any feedback mechanism, it has the capacity to encourage as well as inhibit thoughts, ideas, and actions on a multitude of levels. So a key question we must ask ourselves when thinking about the future of media is: What kind of content needs to be produced that creates a feedback loop enhancing society’s capacity to solve problems vs. diminishes it.

The media industry is in a time of great change and with it brings daunting challenges as well as new opportunities. Join us for a discussion with editors and journalists from Solutions Journalism, NYTs, Quartz, Upworthy and Latino USA (NPR) as we take a deep dive into the ways media is evolving, how it can be used as a vehicle to help people make sense an increasingly complex world, as well as how stories and journalism can be used to give a voice to the ideas, actions, and people having a positive impact in the world.

Join the conversation on Twitter with:

@besocialchange | @marcossalazar | @tirosenberg | @thomaspagemcbee | @nadiareiman | @jenni_gritters | @CoLabFactory

{Drinks and snacks will be provided.}

SCHEDULE

6:30 PM - Doors open for Panel Event

7:00 PM - Program begins at 7pm sharp

8:10 PM - Q&A

8:30 PM - Networking & Closing

FEATURED PANELISTS:

• Tina Rosenberg, Co-Writer, NY Times Fixes & Co-Founder, Solutions Journalism Network

• Thomas McBee, Editorial Director for Growth, Quartz

• Nadia Reiman, Senior Editor, NPR's Latino USA

• Jenni Gritters, Editor, Upworthy

PANELISTS BIOS:

Tina Rosenberg, Co-Writer, New York Times Fixes and Co-Founder, Solutions Journalism Network

Tina Rosenberg is co-writer of the New York Times Fixes column and co-founder of the Solutions Journalism Network. She is a longtime New York Times writer, for the editorial page and the SundaY magazine. Her articles have appeared in dozens of magazines, including The New Yorker, Rolling Stone and Foreign Policy. She is the author of three books: Children of Cain: Violence and the Violent in Latin America; The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts after Communism; and Join the Club:  How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World. She has won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Follow Tina on Twitter at @tirosenberg.

Thomas McBee, Editorial Director for Growth, Quartz

Thomas McBee is the Editorial Director for Growth at Quartz. Prior to this role, he was the managing editor at Mic, and his freelance work on gender can be found in Playboy and Glamour, on Vice, BuzzFeed, and via his column for Pacific Standard. He is the author of the award-winning memoir, Man Alive (City Lights), and working on a book about masculinity, forthcoming on Scribner. He teaches in CUNY's J-school's graduate program for social journalism. Follow Thomas on Twitter at @thomaspagemcbee.

Nadia Reiman, Senior Editor, NPR's Latino USA

Nadia Reiman has been a radio producer since 2005. Before joining the Latino USAteam as a Senior Editor, Nadia produced for StoryCorps. Her work there on 9/11 stories earned her a Peabody Award. She has also mixed audio for animations, assisted on podcasts for magazines, and program managed translations for Canon Latin America. Nadia has also produced for None on Record, editing and mixing stories of queer Africans, and worked on a Spanish language radio show called Epicentro based out of Washington, DC. She graduated from Kenyon College with a double major in International Studies and Spanish Literature. Follow Nadia on Twitter at @nadiareiman.

Jenni Gritters, Editor, Upworthy

Jenni Gritters is an Editor at Upworthy, where she runs the freelance program, spearheads special projects, and manages a team of writers. Before Upworthy, she worked as Managing Editor at MedTech Boston, a healthcare startup. She also spent a year ghostwriting a book on emotions research, and has worked as a freelance healthcare reporter for a number of publications, including Boston Magazine, Greatist, and the Boston Globe. She has a MS in Narrative & Science Journalism from Boston University. Follow Jenni on Twitter at @jenni_gritters.

SPACE PARTNER

The CoLab-Factory is coworking and collaboration in downtown Brooklyn. The first of its kind on the Fulton Mall — the CoLab-Factory is a coworking and shared office space for members who take action and drive innovation. The stats: 21 offices, 3 conference rooms, 1 classroom, 1 event space, 2 lounges, and a cafe.

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