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A roundup of links to news and commentary on the New Hampshire primary and its aftermath.

"The Unpress: New Gatekeepers of the New Hampshire Primary," is a free, open-to-the-public, town-meeting style forum this Thurs., Dec. 6 from 6 p.m.-9 p.m. at Southern New Hampshire University in which bloggers, reporters, citizens and campaign staffers will debate how blogs and the Internet are affecting political dialog in a presidential-primary year. The event, organized by the New England News Forum, will be in Robert Frost Hall at the Manchester, N.H., campus. GO TO STORY / Download a PDF FLYER.

Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas returned to his law-school alma mater on Oct. 17, 2007, to give a keynote address at a day-long seminar on new-media law and blogging. Introduced by the school's dean, Maureen O'Rourke.  (CLICK HERE TO LAUNCH AUDIO/VIDEO)  In the 36-minute talk and Q&A, Moulitsas recounted his surprise rise to Internet prominence, and described his view of why Daily Kos is an example of new media, which he said was made possible by a "dramatic failure" and "stranglehold" of the mainstream media, citing comments by CBS Evening News host Katie Couric during a September appearance at the National Press Club on The Kalb Report. 

What happens when a video teacher and administrator at Boston English High School start to infuse media-literacy principles in the school day? Listen to this unedited audio of a session at the Oct. 27, 2007 media literacy conference at MIT: "Creating and Learning in a Media Saturated Culture." The panel, lead by Renee Hobbs, of Temple University, included (in first order of speaking): Rona Zickower, of Media Power Youth, Manchester, N.H.; Xavier Rozas, media teacher, Boston English High School; and Chris Toulet-Cote, assistant headmaster of English High.  Click here to launch an audio stream, or DOWNLOAD MP3 PODCAST.

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Former White House press secretary Joe Lockhart, award-winning Frontline investigative journalist Lowell Bergman, New York Times columnist David Carr, Pulitzer-prize winning Washington Post foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid and Atlantic Monthly national correspondent Mark Bowden are among panelists at a Saturday, Nov. 17 fall symposium, "No News is Bad News: The Role of the Media in our Society," at Boston College. The Massachusetts Foundation on the Humanities is sponsor of the symposium, which is free and open to the public, but requires registration. The event runs from 12:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., with a pre-convening special session for high-school journalists beginning at 10:30 a.m.