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Virtual Reality Journalism: Launch of New Tow Center Research
By Tow Center for Digital Journalism + Brown Institute for Media Innovation
When and where
Date and time
Wednesday, November 11, 2015 · 4 - 8pm EST
Location
Brown Institute for Media Innovation Columbia Journalism School New York, NY United States
Description
Virtual Reality Journalism
The Tow Center for Digital Journalism
Columbia Journalism School | Pulitzer Hall
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
4:00 pm 5.00pm
Come and watch the PBS Frontline/Secret Location VR film on Ebola Outbreak
5.00pm to 6.00pm
Panel discussion with Taylor Owen (Tow Fellow) Raney Aronson-Rath (PBS Frontline), James Milward (Prodcution Company, Secret Location)
6.00pm - 7.30pm
Come watch and interact with three other VR projects created by RYOT, the AP and two Brown Institute Grantees. The films will be introduced by:
Molly Swenson (COO, RYOT)
Nathan Griffiths (Interactive Editor, Associated Press)
Francesco Marconi (Strategy Manager at the Associated Press and a Tow Fellow)
Marcelle Hopkins, (Brown Institute Grantee, journalist & filmmaker)
Benedict Moran, (Brown Institute Grantee, journalist & filmmaker)
We are pleased to announce a new report on Journalism in Virtual Reality, by Tow Center research Fellows Fergus Pitt and Taylor Owen. The launch of this report coincides with the launch of "Ebola Outbreak: A Virtual Journey" on Gear VR; Ebola Outbreak is a collaborative project between PBS Frontline, The Secret Location, and the Tow Center for Digital Journalism. Further information about the Ebola Outbreak project may be found here.
VR is an exciting new platform for documentary journalism, and holds myriad potential applications. A number of journalistic works are just beginning to show the diversity and flexibility of this new medium.
This event will comprise a panel discussion regarding Pitt and Owen's report, a discussion of the potential applications that VR technologies provide journalists, and a showcase of Virtual Reality projects related to Journalism.