Dear Colleagues,

We look forward to welcoming you on Wednesday, March 4 for the next NYC Media Seminar.   Justin Rao (Microsoft Research) will present “Fair and Balanced? Quantifying Media Bias Through Crowdsourced Content Analysis”.   Looking ahead, on April 1pril 1, 2015: Jeremiah Dittmar (LSE)  will present “New Media, Markets, and Institutional Change: Evidence from the Protestant Reformation”

The full schedule with links to papers is available here.

The seminar meets the first Wednesday each month from 10:00-12:00 in room #1502 of the Associated Press headquarters at 450 W. 33rd St., New York City. To speed check in at AP headquarters, it is helpful but not essential to RSVP to me at [log in to unmask] or to Miklos at [log in to unmask] with your name and affiliation. Please do not respond to the LISTSERV. Please also let us know if you are interested in joining for lunch.

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As a special note, this is Social Media Week in New York City.   Along with news editors at ABC, Buzzfeed and Gawker, Miklos and I will be participating in a panel sponsored by the Associated Press on the topic of  “Who sets the news agenda in the social media age?”  Details here.

Miklos and I look forward to seeing you on March 4!

Lisa George,  Hunter College
Miklos Sarvary, Columbia Business School


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