Jonathan Taplin discusses The Magic Years with Ian Masters via DIESEL Bookstore
May 4, 2021 | 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Join us on Tuesday, May 4th, at 6:30 pm for a virtual event with Jonathan Taplin in conversation with Ian Masters as they discuss The Magic Years: Scenes from a Rock-and-Roll Life.
The event is free to attend and will be held on Crowdcast.
Jonathan Taplin, a Princeton University graduate, is an author and director emeritus of the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab. Taplin’s book Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy, was nominated by the Financial Times as one of the Best Business Books of 2017. Taplin has produced music and film for Bob Dylan and the Band, George Harrison, Martin Scorsese, Wim Wenders, Gus Van Sant, and others. He currently sits on the boards of the Authors Guild, the Americana Music Association, and Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti’s Technology and Innovation Council. Taplin’s commentary has appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
Ian Masters is a BBC-trained broadcast journalist who has covered national security affairs for over 30 years on public radio. He is the host of the nationally-syndicated news analysis public radio program “Background Briefing.” He has produced documentaries for the BBC and ABC News and has been a senior fellow at UCLA’s Center For Strategic and International affairs and the UCLA Center For International Relations.
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Jonathan Taplin
Jonathan Taplin is an author and director emeritus of the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab. Taplin’s book Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy, published by Little, Brown & Company, was nominated by the Financial Times as one of the Best Business Books of 2017. Taplin has produced music and film for Bob Dylan and the Band, George Harrison, Martin Scorsese, Wim Wenders, Gus Van Sant, and many others. He was the founder of Intertainer, the first streaming video-on-demand platform in 1996.
Taplin graduated from Princeton University. He was a professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism from 2003 to 2016. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He currently sits on the boards of the Authors Guild, the Americana Music Association, and Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti’s Technology and Innovation Council. His commentary has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time magazine, the Huffington Post, the Guardian, Medium, the Washington Monthly, and the Wall Street Journal.
