Speakers for 2019-2020:

The New York City Media Seminar Series is an initiative sponsored by the Media and Technology Program and AMC Networks, and organized by Lisa George (Hunter College) and Miklos Sarvary (Columbia Business School).

• October 2, 2019: Brian Knight, Brown University – "Opposition Media, State Censorship, and Political Accountability: Evidence from Chavez's Venezuela"

• November 6, 2019: Daniel Treisman, UCLA – "Informational Autocrats"

• December 4, 2019: Dirk Bergemann, Yale University – "The Economics of Social Data"

• February 5, 2020: David Godes, University of Maryland –"Media Bias in the Presence of Feedback"

• March 4, 2020: Anna Tuchman, Northwestern University - Kellogg – "Generalizable and Robust TV Advertising Effects"

• May 6, 2020: Charles Angelucci and Andrea Prat, Columbia University – "Measuring Voters’ Knowledge of Political News"  (Seminar broadcast as a live webinar via Zoom.)

• June 2, 2020: Andrey Simonov, Columbia University – "The Persuasive Effect of Fox News: Non-Compliance with Social Distancing During the Covid-19 Pandemic" (Seminar broadcast as a live webinar via Zoom.)

Seminars are held the first Wednesday of each month during the academic year at the AMC Networks office, located at 11 Penn Plaza, in the 19th Floor Boardroom. The sessions begin at 10am with coffee, fol

lowed by a 90-minute presentation and discussion. Participants are welcome to join the speaker and organizers for lunch.

For more information, please contact Miklos Sarvary at Columbia Business School (ms4584@columbia.edu). Past years' seminar topics can be viewed here.