04 Oct 10/9/18 Francesca Panetta

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Fran Panetta: Working with emerging media in a 200-year-old newspaper

Tuesday | October 9th | 12:00 – 1:30 PM
MIT Open Documentary Lab | E15-318A
MIT Campus, Wiesner Building, 20 Ames Street, 3rd Floor, Cambridge MA 02139

How do you incorporate the latest technologies into an old newspaper? How do you explore new storytelling possibilities into newsrooms with established and sometimes inflexible practices?

Francesca Panetta moved to the Guardian 12 years ago at the dawn of podcasting. She lead the audio team there, then moved to interactive documentaries, GPS sound apps and now leads the in-house virtual reality studio. This session will showcase some of the work they’ve done there over this time and explain how the newsroom can be your most useful resource whilst not always knowing what it is talking about.