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WABC, WNBC, NPR, MTV, BET. Don’t like letters? How about The Economist, The New York Times and Time Inc.? Stodgy old media companies? Get with it: There isn’t a single major media company out there that hasn’t plunged into the New Media world. That’s where consumers, especially young consumers, are. That’s where the changing economy and lifestyles dictate these companies have to be if they’re going to survive. And that’s where the jobs will be, not just in reporting, blogging and editing, but also in highly skilled tech jobs that make the digital world spin. Podcasting, videocasting and jazzy Web design—those are the skills that today’s media companies want. The eighth CUNY Journalism, Broadcast and New Media Conference ties all of those strands together on Friday, Oct. 3, 2008, at the University Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave., at 34th Street in Manhattan.
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The conference’s cosponsors are leading this movement toward the digital future of communications. The Economist is an internationally influential window into the worlds of news, finance, the arts and more—and it has reserved paid summer internships for CUNY students in both marketing and journalism. And Adobe Systems, a world leader in dynamic digital communication software, is holding workshops on some of its key products, the ones that have made the Web look and operate what we expect it to be, including Flash, After Effects and Photoshop Lightroom. There also are pure New Media companies represented at the conference, including The Huffington Post and Theroot.com.