November Entrepreneurial Journalism Demo Night

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Join us for our November media #DemoNight! NOTE: earlier start time at 6:30pm!

We'll feature emerging entrepreneurial media ventures and innovators, including the New York Times Election Bot (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/politics/election-bot.html?_r=0), StreetLib (https://www.streetlib.com/) and Electionland (https://projects.propublica.org/electionland/) (a partnership between ProPublica, Google News Lab, WNYC, the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, First Draft, Univision, USA Today and many more).

Doors Open and Light Snacks: 6:15pm
Presentations: 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Optional Hanging Out/Networking: 8:00-8:30pm

Twitter Details:

Hosts: @tkCUNY (http://www.twitter.com/tkCUNY) @CUNYJSchool (http://www.twitter.com/CUNYJSchool)
Hashtag: #DemoNight (https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=%23demonight&src=typd)

Presenters:

Hailey Persinger @HaileyErin (https://twitter.com/HaileyErin), product manager at The New York Times, will present the Times' Election Facebook Messenger bot (https://www.messenger.com/login.php?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.messenger.com%2Ft%2Fnytpolitics%2F).

Giacomo D'Angelo @GiacomoDAngelo (https://twitter.com/GiacomoDAngelo), head of StreetLib USA, will present @StreetLib (https://twitter.com/StreetLib), an online book selling and publishing tool.

Carrie Brown @Brizzyc (https://twitter.com/Brizzyc), head of CUNY's social journalism program, and John Keefe @jkeefe (https://twitter.com/jkeefe), WNYC Data News Editor, will present @electionland (https://twitter.com/electionland), a project to cover voting access across the US in real time.

Hosted by the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism (http://towknight.org/apply) at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism (http://journalism.cuny.edu/).

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