The Future of Print in the Digital Age

Co-sponsored by Comparative Media Studies/Writing, its Graduate Program in Science Writing, and the MIT Program in Science Technology and Society.

David Carr writes the Media Equation column for the Monday Business section of the New York Times that focuses on media issues including print, digital, film, radio and television. He also works as a general assignment reporter in the Culture section of The Times covering all aspects of popular culture. Carr blogs regularly at Media Decoder.

For the past 25 years, Carr has been writing about media as it intersects with business, culture and government.

Seth Mnookin is a former baseball and political writer who now co-directs MIT’s Graduate Program in Science Writing.

Ta-Nehisi Coates is a 2012-2013 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Scholar at MIT and a senior editor at The Atlantic where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues for TheAtlantic.com and the magazine. He is the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle.