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SCM Colloquium Series Presents: Taking Storytelling to the Next Level: A Conversation with Megan Cunningham on Creating Compelling Stories.

December 2, 2015, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Location University Hall - 1050
SponsorSchool of Communication and Media, College of the ArtsMore Informationhttp:/‌/‌www.montclair.edu/‌arts/‌school-of-communication-and-media/‌events/‌fall-2015-events-schedule/‌Posted InSchool of Communication and Media
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Megan Cunningham is the CEO of Magnet Media, a strategic studio. She regularly speaks on trends impacting the media industry, with a specific focus on how data informs the storytelling process to drive impact. Magnet Media produces and automates premium video marketing through tech-enabled creativity. Magnet’s mission is to ignite the passion of audiences through compelling video stories. Register here.

Megan began her career in production for PBS, HBO, Nickelodeon, and MTV. In 1997, she joined Virtual Media, an entertainment technology startup. As employee #2, she lead the company's bootstrapped growth from 2 to 50 people in 2.5 years. In 2000, she left Virtual Media to start Magnet Media.

For the past decade, Magnet’s worked at the intersection of technology and media, to create awe-inspiring customer experiences through technology-enabled stories. Today, Magnet uses their own Think / Make / Reach™ platform to produce strategic insights (think), award-winning video content (make) and automate premium video marketing (reach). The team at Magnet produces award-winning social video campaigns for many global brands. Focusing on media, technology and finance, clients include Google, Intel, Amazon, Microsoft, Adobe, D&B, NBC, TIAA-CREF, JP Morgan, and Credit Suisse. The company’s Magnet Media Originals division produces entertaining web-original shows for PBS, Scripps, Starz.

Megan has consulted on dozens of tech and entertainment projects and has lead keynotes and thought leader conversations at The Wharton School of Business' Entrepreneurs Conference, The MacArthur Producer's Institute, and NAB. She is the author of The Art of the Documentary (Pearson Publishing), has served on the Board of Directors of New York Women in Film and Television, was a Fellow at the Punch Sulzberger Program at the Columbia School of Journalism. She is a graduate of Swarthmore College and a member of the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.