Fiona Scott Morton from Yale University presenting at the media seminar, held at the new CBS Manhattanville campus

Speakers for 2021-2022:

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 6: Tianyi Wang, Princeton —"Media, Pulpit, and Populist Persuasion: Evidence from Father Coughlin"
   
• November 3:  Jason Choi, Rutgers — "Open and Private Exchanges in Display Advertising"
   
• December 1:  Ricardo Puglisi, University of Pavia — "The Revealed Demand for Hard vs. Soft News: Evidence from Italian TV Viewership"
   
• February 2:  Alexandre Garel, Audencia Business School — "Music sentiment and stock returns around the world"
   
• March 2: Ken Wilbur, UCSD — "How Viewer Tuning, Presence and Attention Respond to Ad Content and Predict Brand Search Lift"
   
• April 6:  Kristoffer Nimark (Cornell), "Attention Costs, Economies of Scale and Markets for Information"
   
• May 11: Nikita Melnikov, Princeton — "Mobile Internet and Political Polarization" 
   
• June 1: Fiona Scott Morton, Yale University — "How does the new antitrust paradigm affect media markets?"

Seminars are held the first Wednesday of each month during the academic year. The sessions begin at 10:30am with a 90-minute presentation and discussion. For more information, please contact Miklos Sarvary at Columbia Business School ([email protected]). Past years' seminar topics can be viewed here.

Jim Snyder from Harvard presenting at the media seminar in AMC network’s boardroom