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Vanessa PappasTikTok Global, COOMA Media Studies 2007Vanessa is currently Chief Operating Officer of TikTok globally. She oversees content, operations, marketing, and product teams for the video platform. Previously she served as Global Head of Creative Insights, YouTube. In this role, she oversaw YouTube’s global creator research & trends, audience development, creative strategy and growth teams. Who’s focus was to drive platform and creator growth across key markets and user segments. Prior to this, Vanessa was Global Head of Audience Development, YouTube, focused on developing audience building strategies and working to build loyalty for creators and their content. Working cross functionally with YouTube’s core product, marketing, strategy and content teams. In this role, she also developed the YouTube Creator Playbook, the definitive resource for building viewership on YouTube, which has reached over 20MM creators to date. The Playbook has now expanded to it’s own division at YouTube which encompasses the YouTube Creator Academy and YouTube Certification program. Before joining YouTube, Vanessa was Vice President of Programming and Audience Development at online video leader Next New Networks where she spearheaded their business partnerships and audience development efforts that led to the company’s viewership growth to over 2 billion total views. In March 2011 Next New Networks was acquired by YouTube/Google.
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The MA in Media Studies gives students experience in creative media making, critical analysis, and entrepreneurialism. The Media Management MS offers the practical experience you need to succeed in today's media industries. The Documentary Studies Certificate program provides an opportunity to study documentary filmmaking in a small, tightly focused program. The Media Management Certificate Program provides a strong foundation of management principles and leadership skills to find work in the ever-changing global media landscape.
Annual Events
Over three evenings, short documentaries made by students in the Documentary Media Studies graduate certificate program are screened for the public. The films are the products of a year of study in documentary production, history and theory. The program has just completed its tenth year.
This annual event features film and video works produced by students taking graduate, undergraduate, and certificate classes in the School of Media Studies. Finalists are selected by an external jury of film professionals.
New School graduate students exhibit and discuss their works-in-progress in this popular monthly media workshop and screening series. Presenting students receive constructive feedback on their film, video, and audio work.
Mixed Messages is an annual exhibition showcasing outstanding creative work by graduate students in the School of Media Studies. Selected by a panel of distinguished jurors, projects include installations, interactive experiences, Web-based projects, and works on paper.
Kinoscope is a screening series designed to foster dialogue about film as cinematic art. Kinoscope events include discussion and analysis at the end of each program. Kinoscope’s mission is to enhance the awareness and understanding of the film and filmmaking process by screening a wide variety of national and international films.
Immediacy is a student-centered online journal produced by the School of Media Studies that provides a space for fresh approaches and perspectives on the understanding of media.