News and the Millennial Generation
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Where will people be getting the news in ten years? What is the future of infotainment? At what point are we totally saturated? Why do we care? Is the Internet making us stupid? Is the erosion of our collective attention span ruining the very fundamentals of journalism and storytelling? Or are we better off? Speakers: Jon Steinberg, David Leonhardt, Chris Altchek, Spencer Baim
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