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"Only 200 tickets remain for Mashable's Social Media Week event, NextUp NYC - The Future Journalist on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 at 92YTribeca. \nJoin us for networking and a conversation and Q&amp;A with Sree Sreenivasan (Professor and Columbia Journalism School Dean of Student Affairs and contributing editor of DNAinfo.com) and Vadim Lavrusik (new media journalist and digital media graduate student at Columbia University Journalism School).\nDetails\nLocation:  92Y Tribeca, 200 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10013\nSocialize (new): Facebook Event Page\nPricing: $20 in advance, $25 at door. Tickets on Sale Now.\nFood and drink: Full cash bar and food menu available\nSchedule\n\n6:00 \u2013 7:15 = Open Networking\n7:15 \u2013 8:45 = Conversation and Q&amp;A with Sree Sreenivasan and Vadim Lavrusik\n8:45 \u2013 Bar Close = Open Networking\n\nA Conversation and Q&amp;A with:\nSree Sreenivasan - Prof. Sree Sreenivasan, Columbia Journalism School Dean of Student Affairs and contributing editor, DNAinfo.com.\nSree Sreenivasan is a tech evangelist and skeptic specializing in explaining technology to non-techies. He is a professor and dean of students affairs at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where he teaches in the digital media program. Sreenivasan is contributing editor at DNAinfo.com, a Manhattan-news startup he helped launch in 2009 with Joe Ricketts, the founder of Ameritrade and whose family just bought the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field. He also has been a fixture on NYC-area television. For more than eight years, he served as technology reporter for WABC-TV and WNBC-TV and now occasionally appears on various TV shows (on CNN, NBC's Today Show, CNBC and elsewhere) to talk tech. He has written articles for The New York Times, BusinessWeek, Rolling Stone, National Journal, Bloomberg, Forbes and Popular Science. You can find him on Twitter at twitter.com/sreenet and on the Web at sree.net.\nVadim Lavrusik - Online journalist and M.S. candidate in Digital Media at Columbia Journalism School\nVadim Lavrusik is a new media journalist and social media consultant studying digital media at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where he is launching NYC 3.0, a tech start-up news site as part of his Master's project. He\u2019s reported for publications like the Star Tribune, The Minnesota Daily, the Mpls./St. Paul Business Journal and most recently was a guest feature writer for Mashable.com, where he covered trends in news media, and contributed to Poynter Online\u2019s E-Media Tidbits. You can follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/lavrusik and the Web lavrusik.com.\nThanks to our Sponsor\nZemoga is an award-winning digital innovation agency that specializes in the creation of meaningful and engaging interactive experiences and applications. With offices in the US and Colombia, Zemoga empowers customers with groundbreaking solutions through a model that provides efficiencies at every level. Zemoga's clients include Sears Holdings, HBO, ING, Yahoo, Viacom, A&amp;E Television Networks, Toyota, SONY Music, and Rodale. \nCall for Sponsors\nAs all of our NextUp NYC events funds go directly to 92YTribeca's non-profit programming, we are looking for Sponsors to come aboard and support the event. Please contact adamh @ mashable for more information.\nThanks to our Partner\n\"SMAC \u2013 the Social Media Advertising Consortium fosters collaboration throughout the entire social media ecosystem, diving deep into critical issues and staying ahead of this constantly evolving industry. By bringing together buy side, sell side, and research professionals to develop relevant standards, comprehensive research and definitive measurement tools, our goal is to grow revenues and increase engagement. SMAC members are groundbreakers. Entrepreneurs. Thought leaders. Together, we form a community that feeds off each other\u2019s creativity, creating an environment for learning and discovery.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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