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DESCRIPTION:Note: Any updates to this event, such as changes to the date o
 r location,  will NOT be reflected in this calendar appointment. For the 
 most current  event information for the 2014 Congress of the Humanities an
 d Social  Sciences, please visit www.congress2014.ca/calendar.\n\nSeries:
  Big Thinking\n\nAssociation: Federation for the Humanities and Social Sci
 ences\n\nAccess Level: General public\n\nDescription: News magazines are d
 ead, daily newspapers are dying, and most  veteran journalists spend the
 ir days hoping to be bought up by an internet  billionaire or offered a jo
 b at a foundation. Investigative journalism has  weakened, local journali
 sm has lost its edge, and the hot Internet outlets  are either stealing e
 veryone else's work, or cobbling together random GIFs  and listicles. And
  social media, don't get me started. It looks bad, doesn't  it? In fact\
 , the state of journalism has never been better. Big data has enabled  rem
 arkable investigations and visualizations. Low barriers to entry have  ope
 ned journalism to all kinds of eccentrics and obsessives who never could  
 have contributed a generation ago. Social media has created a virtuous cyc
 le,  spreading the best journalism fastest and quickly correcting mistake
 s. If you  care about citizens knowing more, knowing it faster, and know
 ing it more  accurately, then this is the golden age of journalism. David
  Plotz is the Editor in Chief of Slate and one of the hosts of the Slate  
 Political Gabfest. Before taking over the magazine in 2008, Plotz was  Sl
 ate’s deputy editor, Washington editor, and political correspondent.  Wh
 ile he has been editor, Slate has won two National Magazine Awards (one f
 or  General Excellence) and been nominated for 12 National Magazine  Award
 s. Plotz worked as senior editor and staff writer for the Washington  City
  Paper, and has written for the New York Times  Magazine, Harper's, Rol
 ling Stone, GQ, the New Republic, and  the Washington Post, among othe
 r publications. He is the author of The  Genius Factory: The Curious Histo
 ry of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank and, most  recently, Good Book: The Biz
 arre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and  Inspiring Things I Learne
 d When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible, based  on his 'Blogging the
  Bible' series for Slate. See here for additional information about David 
 Plotz, compiled by Brock  University Library. Breakfast is served. In Eng
 lish. Simultaneous interpretation available via cell phone. The video of t
 he Big Thinking lecture is now available below:\n\nBig Thinking supporting
  sponsors:\n\n\n\n	Big Thinking The Big Thinking lecture series is held thr
 oughout Congress and is open to  all attendees and members of the public. 
 This series brings together leading  scholars and public figures who can p
 resent forward-thinking research, ideas  and solutions to the critical qu
 estions and issues of our time. The 2014 Big  Thinking lecture series is o
 rganized by the Federation for the Humanities and  Social Sciences and Bro
 ck University. See the complete list of Big Thinking lectures...
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LOCATION:Welch Hall - David S. Howes Theatre
SUMMARY:Fast, cheap, and out of control: How the Internet has made journa
 lism better  than it's ever been (David Plotz)
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 ol-how-internet-has-made-journalism-better-its-ever-been
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