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11 April 2006 Expert on technology and journalism to speak at Longwood
Sree Sreenivasan, one of America’s leading explainers of technology, will speak Monday, April 17, at 7:30 p.m. in Longwood University’s Wygal Auditorium on The Changing Media Landscape: Dangers and Opportunities. Sreenivasan, who runs the news media program at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, will discuss the world of newspapers, TV, radio and the Internet and how emerging technologies have forever changed the way consumers get the news. A question and answer session will follow. Sreenivasan also is dean of students and associate professor of professional practice at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. He appears twice-weekly as an on-air technology reporter, known as the “Tech Guru,” on WABC-TV in New York City, is co-founder of the South Asian Journalists Association, and in March 2004 was named by Newsweek magazine as one of the 20 most influential South Asians in the nation. His work explaining technology has appeared in The New York Times, BusinessWeek, Rolling Stone and Popular Science. His talk, part of the Simkins Lecture Series, is free and open to anyone. A reception will follow in the adjacent Haga Room. The Simkins Lecture Series is named for the late Dr. Francis Butler Simkins, a distinguished scholar of Southern history who taught at Longwood for nearly 40 years. |
