[IGDA-NYC-announce] The NYU Game Center Lecture Series: Journalist Panel

[Wade Tinney]

The NYU Game Center Lecture Series: Journalist Panel

Date: March 25th

Time: 6PM to 7:30PM

Location: 721 Broadway, Lower Level Room 006

RSVP: gamecenter at nyu.edu

Please join us for a panel discussion with three important voices from
the world of game journalism. Who writes about games? What is the future of
game criticism? Where does game news fit into the game industry ecosystem?
How is the game press affected by the collapse of print? Why are we still
looking for the Lester Bangs and Pauline Kael of game reviews? Come hear
our esteemed panelists wrestle with these and other questions and be sure
to bring your own.

Stephen Totilo is a reporter based in Brooklyn, New York. He's the deputy
editor for video gaming blog Kotaku. Prior to joining Kotaku, Totilo worked
for four years as MTV News' first full-time video game reporter. His work
appeared on-line and on-air across MTV, MTV2, MTVu, MTV's international
channels, MTVNews.com and the MTV Multiplayer blog, which he founded. He
also has written about video games for The New York Times, Newsweek, Time,
IGN, and Gamespy. One of his best-known projects was a series of critical
exchanges written with former Newsweek games writer N'Gai Croal. Totilo
holds a masters' degree from Columbia University's graduate school of
journalism. He also Majored in English at NYU.

Jamin Brophy-Warren is a writer covering arts and entertainment with a focus
on videogames and the president of Kill Screen Magazine
(<http://killscreenmagazine.com/>
http://www.killscreenmagazine.com/). He spent four years at the Wall Street
Journal as an arts and entertainment reporter and previously was a music
critic for Pitchfork Media.  He's spoken at Harvard and New York University
and currently writes columns for the Wall Street Journal and GOOD
Magazine <http://www.good.is/series/kill-screen-on-good/>
(http://www.good.is/series/kill-screen-on-good/).  In 2009, he was chosen to
be a member of Slate's annual gaming
club<http://www.slate.com/id/2238567/entry/2238645/>
 (http://www.killscreenmagazine.com/) and his writing has appeared in LA
Times, Vanity Fair, Fast Company, and others.  He graduated from Harvard
University in 2004 with a focus on cultural theory and lives in New Haven,
Connecticut with his wife Sorcha.
Leigh Alexander is news director of industry website Gamasutra, author of
the Sexy Videogameland weblog, and a columnist and reviewer for publications
like Kotaku, GamePro and the AV Club. She focuses on cultural issues
surrounding games and gamers.




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Wade Tinney
Chapter Coordinator, IGDA NYC, http://nycgames.org
CEO, Large Animal Games, http://largeanimal.com
Twitter: @largeanimal <http://www.twitter.com/largeanimal>
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