DC Media Makers September Meetup

The Scoop

We have TWO speakers at this meeting, Andy Carvin and Mana Rabiee.

Andy Carvin, DC Media Makers co-founder and NPR Senior Social Media Strategist, will be speaking about PublicMediaCamp: Strengthening Public Broadcasting Through Community Collaboration.

"Ever since the NPR API came out a year ago, we've toyed around with the idea of inviting local coders to NPR headquarters over pizza and beer to see what kinds of apps and mashups we could come up with together. It seemed like a fun idea, but we realized there was an opportunity for something even more powerful. What if we brought together all sorts of people interested in collaborating with public radio and public TV, to see what we could come up with, including digital tools, citizen journalism and other types community-centered initiatives?

"As we talked with our colleagues across the public media system and beyond, it became clear we needed to host a really big camp - a national PublicMediaCamp, that is."

Mana Rabiee is an Iranian-American multimedia journalist and documentary filmmaker whose career has taken her to New York, Paris, Tehran and the UK. Before coming to Washington, Mana was a news anchor for PressTV, Iran’s state-run 24-hour English-language news network. She is the recipient of documentary production grants from international film festivals and is currently in post-production on a feature-length doc about Iran’s Basij youth. Her latest video work will commence the Fall schedule of Focal Point, an online-exclusive series of documentary shorts from Wide Angle. Mana currently reports local news for WAMU-FM, the National Public Radio affiliate in the nation’s capitol.

Mana will screen some of her online clips, share production notes as a documentarian, and seek feedback about her online storytelling.

Interested in presenting at future meetups?

To present at a future DC Media Makers (casual style), please contact Jill Foster directly to share your professional or personal digital tech project (and the tools you're using too!) with the group.

Contact Jill Foster: www.twitter.com/jillfoster or [masked].

Feedback

Do you want feedback on any particular media project or concept on your mind? We're glad to listen and offer suggestions in that frank yet friendly way.

Will there be snacks?

...likely!

Metro stop

2 blocks north of Gallery Place/Chinatown. Red, Green/Yellow lines.

Upon arrival at NPR's lobby

Inform security you're attending the DC Media Makers meeting. They'll grant access from there.

Board Room East is upstairs from lobby, down hall to right.

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