The NYU Game Center Lecture Series: Journalist Panel
Date: March 25th
Time: 6PM to 7:30PM
Location: 721 Broadway, Lower Level Room 006
RSVP: gamecenter@nyu.edu
Please join us for a panel discussion with three important voices from the world of game journalism. Who writes about games? What is the future of game criticism? Where does game news fit into the game industry ecosystem? How is the game press affected by the collapse of print? Why are we still looking for the Lester Bangs and Pauline Kael of game reviews? Come hear our esteemed panelists wrestle with these and other questions and be sure to bring your own.
Stephen Totilo is a reporter based in Brooklyn, New York. He’s the deputy editor for video gaming blog Kotaku. Prior to joining Kotaku, Totilo worked for four years as MTV News’ first full-time video game reporter. His work appeared on-line and on-air across MTV, MTV2, MTVu, MTV’s international channels, MTVNews.com and the MTV Multiplayer blog, which he founded. He also has written about video games for The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, IGN, and Gamespy. One of his best-known projects was a series of critical exchanges written with former Newsweek games writer N’Gai Croal. Totilo holds a masters’ degree from Columbia University’s graduate school of journalism. He also Majored in English at NYU.
Jamin Brophy-Warren is a writer covering arts and entertainment with a focus on videogames and the president of Kill Screen Magazine (http://www.killscreenmagazine.com/). He spent four years at the Wall Street Journal as an arts and entertainment reporter and previously was a music critic for Pitchfork Media. He’s spoken at Harvard and New York University and currently writes columns for the Wall Street Journal and GOOD Magazine (http://www.good.is/series/kill-screen-on-good/). In 2009, he was chosen to be a member of Slate’s annual gaming club (http://www.killscreenmagazine.com/) and his writing has appeared in LA Times, Vanity Fair, Fast Company, and others. He graduated from Harvard University in 2004 with a focus on cultural theory and lives in New Haven, Connecticut with his wife Sorcha.