Upcoming Episodes

Jake Barton

Principal and Founder, Local Projects

Museums used to be places where we entered, looked around and left. Now, thanks to people like Jake Barton, museums are highly interactive and immersive experiences that attempt to use the latest technologies to excite, educate and inspire. Jake Barton is the founder of the design studio Local Projects, and has worked on the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum, the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, the Museum of the City of New York and the Cleveland Museum of Art, among many others. Jake tells us about how he is integrating media and technology into museums to create what he calls “emotional storytelling.”

Jane McManus

Director, Marist College Center for Sports Communication

Sports Columnist, The New York Daily News

We love sports stories because they are intrinsically about what we value in ourselves as well as our culture: hard work, competition, overcoming defeat, and redemption. But, if sports journalism gives us a lens into who we are today, what does it show us about how we value women’s contributions, as compared with men’s?  To what extent does sports media go beyond reflecting our culture, and actually influencing it?  I discuss these issues with Jane McManus, the Director of Marist’s Center for Sports Communications.  She has covered sports since 1998, including 18 US Opens, five Super Bowls, two NCAA Final Fours and the inaugural season of the New York Liberty.  Her work has appeared in the New York Daily News, Newsday, USA Today, the New York Times and ESPN.