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Media City Season 7 Episodes

10 Episodes 2010 - 2010

Episode 1

Travel Media: Pack Up and Go

Fri, Jun 4, 2010

If you love to write as much as you love to travel, and are confident you have something to offer, this is for you. Travel pros share valuable tips, reveal useful resources and define opportunities that will get you started you on the road to success.

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Episode 2

Digital Entrepreneurs 2.0

Fri, Jun 11, 2010

The current digital environment offers new opportunities for tech savvy entrepreneurs. Today, digital launches cost a lot less than brick-and-mortar start-ups. Learn how these young go-getters turned their digital dreams into successful realities.

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Episode 3

TV Publicity: Think Outside the Tube

Fri, Jun 18, 2010

Instead of in front of the box, we are more likely catch favorite shows on cell phones, iPods, and all manner of hand-held devices, making the competition for eyeballs all the more intense. How do publicists grab the attention of today's focus-challenged viewers? And how can you get into the game?

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Episode 4

Polk Awards: Reporters at Risk

Fri, Jun 25, 2010

David Rohde, NY Times correspondent won the Polk Award for a five-part series on his kidnapping by the Taliban in Afghanistan. Held prisoner in Pakistan for over seven months until his daring escape. The series reveals shocking details of a Taliban 'mini-state' in Pakistan and conveys the hatred young jihadis harbor for the West. Leo Shane III, Stars and Stripes reporter shares a Polk Award with colleagues Charlie Reed and Kevin Baron for a series on how the Pentagon used a PR firm to profile journalists and steer them toward positive coverage of the war in Afghanistan. Days after the report came out, this initiative was cancelled.

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Episode 5

Funny Business: Writing for Late Night TV

Sun, Aug 1, 2010

Q: Who's funnier than Conan, Leno and Letterman? A: the writers! They have to think up a hundred jokes a day for just one to land in the monologue. And being funny is only the beginning. You've got to be well-informed, politically savvy, and hip to pop culture. Learn what it takes to survive and thrive.

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Episode 6

Special Events: Behind the Velvet Rope

Sun, Aug 8, 2010

Forget the doom and gloom. The show must go on! New York's hottest party-planners reveal what it takes to design some of the splashiest bashes in the city, including theatre and film openings, charity galas and exclusive private parties - created by the hardest-working event professionals in the world.

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Episode 7

Peter Biskind: How Warren Beatty Seduced America

Sun, Aug 15, 2010

Join us for an exciting evening with the author of several bestsellers on American film! Peter Biskind serves up Hollywood dish and explores the life and creative talent of a Hollywood legend. Biskind gives us an entertaining, three-dimensional, no-holds-barred portrait of one of the most influential, charismatic and talked-about leading men in American film. Multi-talented and driven, Beatty directed, wrote and starred in a number of Oscar-winning movies that defined American culture and helped shape our vision of the 70s 80s and 90s. You will also see clips from some of his greatest films, including Reds, Bulworth, Heaven Can Wait and Shampoo.

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Episode 8

Leaves of Grass: A Conversation with Tim Blake Nelson

Sun, Aug 22, 2010

A conversation about the life and career of Writer/Director/Actor Tim Blake Nelson and an in depth look at his new film Leaves of Grass.

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Episode 9

Fashion Media: Design Your Career

Sun, Sep 26, 2010

Jump-start your career in fashion media by expressing yourself with user-generated platforms, including social networks, blogs, and online video. Top fashion media pros explore how the industry is making the most of the new wave of self-promoting stylistas. Panelists include Marie Griffin, Amy Astly (Teen Vogue), Andy Hilfiger and Britt Aboutaleb.

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Episode 10

Documentary: Roads to Memphis

Sun, Oct 3, 2010

Director Stephen Ives sits down with Author Hampton Sides and Jeremy McCarter to discuss his new film about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and James Earl Ray that follows the events that led to their violent and tragic collision in Memphis.

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