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SUMMARY:The End of the News as We Know It: How Facebook Swallowed Journali
 sm - Emily Bell (Tow Center for Journalism\, Columbia)
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DESCRIPTION:Free and open to all. No registration required.\n\nEmily Bell\
 , the Humanitas Visiting Professor in Media 2015-16\, will give an open le
 cture as part of a series of events she will be doing while in Cambridge o
 n the theme of Facebook Eating the World. \n\nA mobile media revolution is
  changing the basis of the global free press and dictating the future of s
 elf expression. Snapchat\, Facebook\, Twitter\, Google and Apple are among
  the few companies redrawing the boundaries of how we communicate and taki
 ng over the role of the global publishers. The future of journalism\, the 
 news\, free speech and even democratic exchange is changed forever. What d
 oes this mean for the news media and for democracy?  Is this an exciting n
 ew opportunity to remake the news or a long term threat to the public sphe
 re? This lecture examines the rapid changes in the news ecosystem and its 
 implications for the practice and policies of the media industry.
LOCATION:Faculty of Law\, Room LG19
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