The UA is very pleased and proud to announce that the New York Times Readership Program Speaker, David Carr, will be giving a talk on new media’s impact on non-political journalism in the Cohen Terrace on October 6, at 7pm. There will be free food at this public event.

David Carr writes a column for the Monday Business section of The New York Times which focuses on media issues including print, digital, film, radio and television. He also writes for the Media Decoder blog, a showcase for The Times’s extensive media coverage and a window on how the business of connecting with consumers is changing in the digital age. During awards season he writes a daily blog called The Carpetbagger about the Oscars. In addition, he appears in weekly videos that put a New York spin on the red carpet season.

You can check out his bio after the jump.

DAVID CARR – Business Columnist and Culture Reporter

For the past 25 years, Mr. Carr has been writing about media as it intersects with business, culture and government.

He began working at The Times in 2002 covering the magazine publishing industry for the Business section. Before joining The Times, Mr. Carr was a contributing writer for The Atlantic Monthly and New York Magazine. In 2000, he was the media writer for Inside.com, a web news site focusing on the business of entertainment and publishing.

Before coming to New York, Mr. Carr served as editor of the Washington City Paper, an alternative weekly in Washington D.C., for five years. From 1993 to 1995, Mr. Carr was editor of the Twin Cities Reader, a Minneapolis-based alternative weekly, and wrote a media column there as well.

Mr. Carr is the author of “The Night of the Gun” (Simon and Schuster, 2008), a memoir of addiction and recovery that used reporting to fact check the past. Much of the data he collected, including videos, documents and pictures, is available at www.nightofthegun.com.

In 2009 Mr. Carr received the Mirror Award for best commentary in traditional media.  The Mirror Awards, established by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in 2006, honor the reporters, editors and teams of writers who hold a mirror to their own industry for the public’s benefit.

Plus, he’s at the cutting edge of new media, as featured in this (appropriately) YouTube clip: