The MBA Media & Entertainment Conference - What’s Old Is New Again - New York, NY, March 7, 2014

    Speaker: David Spiegel, VP, Sales and Social Publishing, BuzzFeed, March 7, 2014, 2:30PM -3:45PM, NYU’s Kimmel Center, New York, New York

    What's Old is New Again

    As the lines between old media and new continue to blur, major players from both sides are switching teams. Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post, Pierre Omidyar lured The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald to his new media service, First LookMedia, and Vivian Schiller recently left NBC News for Twitter. What value do technology titans see in partnering with veteran talent? Is it even possibly today to separate media from technology? What can be gained from the continued integrationof these industries?

    Panelists

    Kevin Roose, New York Magazine

    Callie Schweitzer, Time Magazine

    Edmund Lee, Bloomberg News

    Sim Blaustein, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments