April 4-5 - International Symposium on Online Journalism

April 4-5 - International Symposium on Online Journalism

April 4-5
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A PROGRAM OF THE
KNIGHT CENTER
FOR JOURNALISM
IN THE AMERICAS
THE AUDITORIUM OF THE BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Thanks to our generous sponsors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Welcome to ISOJ!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Participant biographies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
15th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON
ONLINE JOURNALISM
Organized by the Knight Center for Journalism in the
Americas at the University of Texas at Austin thanks to the
generosity of our sponsors:
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WELCOME TO ISOJ!
Rosental
Calmon
Alves
We have done it again. With an impressive lineup of
speakers, relevant topics and multinational attendees,
ISOJ makes Austin once again the World Capital of Online
Journalism. At least for the next two days, this will be the
center of digital journalism discussion. We are glad you are
here to make it possible.
Enjoy the ISOJ experience! Be aware that you are participating in a
unique conference, with amazing people on both sides, as speakers and
attendees. No other conference offers this blend of journalists, media
executives and scholars from all over the world.
I counted more than 36 countries represented here, but the correct
number must be much bigger, as we don’t keep records of the origin of
attendees. We are proud of bridging the industry and the academia,
but also of bringing together researchers and professionals from so many
countries, cultures and languages.
That diversity will be represented, for example, in the Global Roundup
breakfast session on Saturday at 8 a.m., with presenters from places like
South Sudan, Ukraine, Myanmar and Nepal. They are part of a group
brought to ISOJ by Open Society Foundations’ Program on Independent
Journalism. There are also delegations from South Korea and Latin
American countries among the attendees.
The global aspect of ISOJ is even more impressive when you consider the
live video streaming and the quick upload of the videos that will become
immediately available to the general public. As we did last year, we are
offering two live video feeds, including one with simultaneous translation
to Spanish.
ISOJ is celebrating its 15th anniversary! When we hosted the first
symposium, in 1999, Google was a six-month old small startup in Palo
Alto and many of the other big names of the Internet nowadays, such as
Facebook or Twitter, did not exist even in their founders’ dreams. I still had
to explain to some people what online journalism was, despite the fact
that we were immersed in the dotcom boom (the burst would come a
year later). The news industry was still reluctant in adapting to the ongoing
Digital Revolution, and our cell phones were not smart yet.
Throughout these 15 years, we have collected invaluable testimonials
that will help the next generations to understand how journalism has
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evolved to adapt to the revolutionary changes imposed by the advent of
the Internet and digital technologies. All those testimonials are available
online at ISOJ’s website (http://online.journalism.utexas.edu) in videos,
transcripts and other materials. It is our modest contribution to the history
of journalism in the new century.
We are grateful to our supporters, especially the John S. and James L.
Knight Foundation that gave us a major grant for ISOJ. Other ISOJ sponsors
are The Dallas Morning News, Omidyar Network, Univision Noticias, Google
and our own Moody College of Communication. Without them, it would
not be possible to host this global conference.
Thank you to all who came from far away, from Africa, Asia, Europe,
Middle East, Oceania and the Americas, flying very long hours just to
attend our conference. My gratitude also to all the researchers who
submitted papers to the rigorous, competitive blind review process led by
my colleague from San Diego State University, Dr. Amy Schmitz Weiss. Amy
has contributed to the Knight Center and ISOJ since she was a graduate
student here at our School of Journalism (see her note below).
Congratulations to the researchers selected to present their papers at the
conference, especially those who have their articles published in Volume
4 of #ISOJ – The official research journal of the International Symposium
on Online Journalism. Another unique aspect of ISOJ: researchers can
immediately publish in a reputable, peer-reviewed journal instead of the
long gap between conference and publication. Amy and I are extremely
grateful to the reviewers who generously judge the papers.
Finally, I want to thank all the volunteers who are helping us during this
weekend. My very special thanks to the Knight Center team, especially
Clare Boyle, Alejandro Martínez-Cabrera, Oscar Gomez, Ian Tennant,
Mengwen Cao and Amy.
Now, please enjoy the ISOJ experience and don’t forget to report the
sessions on social media as much as possible, using the hashtag #ISOJ.
Cheers,
Professor Rosental Calmon Alves
Knight Chair in Journalism & UNESCO Chair in Communication
Director, Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas
Founder & Chair of the International Symposium on Online Journalism
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Amy
Schmitz
Weiss
Welcome everyone!
This year, ISOJ continues its tradition of being innovative
and different than years past. We have a robust twoday program with an amazing lineup of speakers along
with additional programming – including a special Saturday researcher
breakfast featuring “What’s next in digital journalism scholarship?”
This year we have research presentations covering the topics of digital
content preservation, social media, news curation tools, journalistic culture
change, native advertising, locative media and much more.
We are also happy to announce that all digital issues, including this
year’s issue of the #ISOJ journal, will now be available for free from the
Symposium website. If you are interested in a print copy of the current
journal, or past editions, see our registration staff to get a copy. There is a
small cost for the print version.
In addition, the #ISOJ journal will be indexed in the latest EBSCO
database, Communication Source, that will launch this fall. You will be
able to search and find journal articles from #ISOJ dating back to our first
issue in 2011!
We hope you will enjoy these next two days of the Symposium and come
away inspired and excited with new ideas in the area of online journalism!
Cheers,
Amy Schmitz Weiss
ISOJ Research Chair
Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Media Studies,
San Diego State University
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SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, APRIL 3
5:30-7:30 P.M.
Welcome reception: Texas Tribune/MediaShift Mixer
sponsored by Digital First Media, KLRU and KUT
Hole in the Wall - 2538 Guadalupe Street
FRIDAY, APRIL 4
7:30-8:30 a.m.
Registration and breakfast
8:30-8:45 a.m.
Opening Session
Rosental Calmon Alves, professor, Knight Chair in Journalism and
UNESCO Chair in Communication, School of Journalism, University of
Texas at Austin (Symposium Chair)
Glenn Frankel, director and professor at the School of Journalism,
University of Texas at Austin
Amy Schmitz Weiss, associate professor, San Diego State University
(Symposium Research Chair)
8:45-9:30 a.m.
Building a media company for the digital age: Lessons from the field
Keynote speaker: Jim Bankoff, chairman and CEO at Vox Media (The
Verge, SBNation, Polygon, Eater, etc.)
Chair: R.B. Brenner, deputy director of the journalism program at
Stanford University, upcoming (fall 2014) director of the School of
Journalism, University of Texas at Austin
9:30-11:00 a.m. Bots, drones, sensors, wearables, etc.: The new tools for journalists
Chair and presenter: Janine Warner, journalist turned geek, author
and teacher
Larry Birnbaum, professor of computer science and journalism at
Northwestern University; chief scientific advisor at Narrative Science
John Keefe, senior editor for Data News & Journalism Technology at
WNYC
Tim Pool, producer at Vice Media
Matt Waite, professor of practice at University of Nebraska-Lincoln and
founder of Journalism Drone Lab
Nicholas Whitaker, media outreach lead at Google
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11:00-11:30 a.m.Coffee Break
11:30-­1:00 p.m. Journalism ethics and values: Challenges in the digital age
Chair and presenter: Tom Rosenstiel, executive director at American
Press Institute
John Cook, editor-in-chief at First Look Media’s digital magazine
Intercept, former editor-in-chief at Gawker
Jane Singer, professor at City University London/University of Iowa
Sylvia Stead, public editor at The Globe and Mail, Canada
Edward Wasserman, dean at UC Berkeley Graduate School of
Journalism
1:00-2:00 p.m. Lunch
Google for Media office hours - learn tools and ask questions - Capitol Room
2:00-3:30 p.m.
Life beyond the newspaper as a paper-only product: Strategies for the newspaper as a hybrid of atoms and bits
Chair and presenter: Jim Moroney, CEO at A.H. Belo, publisher and
CEO at The Dallas Morning News
Penelope Muse Abernathy, Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital
Media Economics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jim Brady, editor-in-chief at Digital First Media, past president at
Online News Association
Valtteri Halla, CTO at Leia Media, Finland
Caroline Little, president and CEO at Newspaper Association of
America
3:30-4:15 p.m. Pushing the frontier of journalism in China: The digital and global challenges
Keynote speaker: Ying Chan, director and professor at The University
of Hong Kong Journalism and Media Studies Centre
Chair: Glenn Frankel, director and professor at the School of
Journalism, University of Texas at Austin
4:15-4:30 p.m.
Coffee Break
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4:30-6:00 p.m.
New research pathways in digital news content: From preservation to curation (Research session)
Chair and discussant: Amy Schmitz Weiss, associate professor, San
Diego State University (Symposium Research Chair)
Juliette De Maeyer, Université de Montréal, Canada: All the News
That’s Fit to Link: An Exhaustive Analysis of Links in Their Editorial
Context
Patrick Howe and Brady Teufel, California Polytechnic State University:
Native Advertising And Digital Natives: The Effects of Age and
Advertisement Format on News Website Credibility Judgments Lisa Lynch, Concordia University, Canada, and Paul Fontaine, McGill
University, Canada: Preserving the Unpreservable: Form, Content,
Copyright and the Archiving of Born-Digital Newspapers
Claudia Silva, Nova de Lisboa University, Portugal: Back to the Future
of News: Looking at Locative Media Principles in the Pre-News Era
Vittoria Sacco, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland, and Yanjun Zhao,
Cameron University: The Impact of Curation On Stories’ Objectivity:
Audience Criteria of Perceived Objectivity of Storify
Alex Avila, University of Texas at Austin: Bienvenido a Miami y Más:
Immigration Frames In English and Spanish Newspapers During the
2012 Florida Republican Primary
6:00-7:30 P.M.
NiemanLab Happy Hour: A traditional Friday meetup of Harvard University’s Nieman Journalism Lab & ISOJ
Dog & Duck Pub - 406 W. 17th Street
SATURDAY, APRIL 5
8:00-9:00 a.m.
Registration
Extra, simultaneous breakfast sessions
8:00-8:50 a.m. Global Roundup Breakfast: Online journalism during political transitions and conflict
Chair: Jane McElhone, senior manager at Open Society Foundations’
Independent Journalism Program
Jacob Akol, editor at Gurtong Trust Peace and Media Project, South
Sudan
Nataliya Gumenyuk, co-founder of Hronadste.tv, Ukraine
Soe Myint, founder and managing director at Mizzima News,
Myanmar
Aunohita Mojumdar, associate editor at Himal Southasian, Nepal/
SouthAsia
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8:00-8:50 a.m. Research Breakfast: What’s next in digital journalism scholarship?
Chair: Jane Singer, professor at City University London/University of
Iowa
The Lean Newsroom: A Manifesto for Risk: Carrie Brown-Smith, assistant
professor at University of Memphis, and Jonathan Groves, assistant
professor at Drury University
Meeting New Readers Through a Digital Transition: Lessons from
Entertainment: Loreto Corredoira, visiting scholar at Media and
Entertainment Center at University of California Los Angeles, and
professor at Complutense University of Madrid (Spain)
Reciprocal Journalism: Avery Holton, University of Utah, Seth Lewis,
University of Minnesota, and Mark Coddington, University of Texas at
Austin
Lessons From a Year in Silicon Valley: Toward a More Innovative
Research Program: Cindy Royal, Knight Fellow at Stanford University,
and associate professor at Texas State University
The Engaging News Project: Using A/B Testing for Democratic and
Business Goals: Talia Stroud, associate professor at University of Texas
at Austin
9:00-9:45 a.m.
Giving good advice: Reflections of an academic on 25 years of advising journalists and media companies
Keynote speaker: Jay Rosen, associate professor at New York
University and blogger at PressThink.org
Chair: Paula Poindexter, president at Association of Education in
Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)
9:45-11:15 a.m. Journalism star startups: Building innovative media outlets for the digital age
Chair and presenter: Michael Maness, vice president for journalism
and media innovation at Knight Foundation
Laura Amico, CEO, editor and founder at Homicide Watch D.C.
Joey Chung, CEO and co-founder at The News Lens, Taipei, Taiwan
Jake Horowitz, editor-in-chief and co-founder at PolicyMic
Juanita León, director and founder at La Silla Vacía, Bogotá,
Colombia
Emily Ramshaw, editor at The Texas Tribune
11:15-11:30 a.m.Coffee Break
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11:30-12:45 p.m.Emerging journalistic practices in the digital age (Research session)
Chair and discussant: Jane Singer, professor at City University London/
University of Iowa
Lisa Lynch, Concordia University, Canada: ‘A Huge Culture Change:’
Newsrooms at La Presse and The Montreal Gazette Reflect on the Shift
to Digital-First
Avery Holton, University of Utah and Logan Molyneux, University of
Texas at Austin: Branding (Health) Journalism: Perceptions, Practices,
and Emerging Norms
Adriana Barsotti, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil: Two Screens, Two Paths: News Production For Smartphones and
Tablets on the Brazilian Newspaper Scene
Matthew Powers, University of Washington-Seattle: Can NGOs Do
Journalism? Do They Even Want To? Understanding the Information
Work of Leading Humanitarian and Human Rights NGOs
Edward Kian and Ray Murray, Oklahoma State University:
Curmudgeons But Yet Adapters: Impact of Web 2.0 and Twitter on
Newspaper Sport Journalists’ Jobs, Responsibilities, and Routines
12:45-2:00 p.m. Lunch
2:00-2:45 p.m. The untold story: Why we should be optimistic about journalism
Keynote speaker: Martin Baron, executive editor at The Washington
Post
Chair: Evan Smith, CEO and executive editor at The Texas Tribune
2:45-4:15 p.m.
Life after television news? The boom of video on the Web and Web video on TV sets
Chair: Robert Hernandez, assistant professor of professional practice at
Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at USC
Rahul Chopra, senior vice president video at News Corp.
Daniel Eilemberg, senior vice president, chief digital officer at Fusion
Rebecca Howard, general manager video, The New York Times
Riyaad Minty, project lead of AJ+ at Al Jazeera
Katharine Zaleski, managing editor at NowThis News
4:15-4:30 p.m.
Coffee Break
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4:30-6:00 p.m.
Knowing your audience: Readership analytics and editorial strategies for online news
Chair: Joshua Benton, director at Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard
University
Todd Cunningham, director at Media Impact Project, the Norman
Lear Center at University of Southern California
Melody Kramer, digital strategist and associate editor at NPR
Higinio O. Maycotte, CEO and founder at Umbel
James G. Robinson, director for news analytics at The New York Times
Nicholas White, CEO and founder at The Daily Dot
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Participant Biographies
PENELOPE (PENNY) MUSE ABERNATHY is a journalism
professional with more than 30 years of experience as a
reporter, editor and media executive. She became the
Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics at
the University of North Carolina July 1, 2008. Abernathy, a
former executive at The Wall Street Journal and The New
York Times, specializes in preserving quality journalism by
helping the news business succeed economically in the
digital media environment. At UNC, Abernathy focuses
her expertise on 21st-century economic models that will
improve the ability of journalists to produce news in the
public interest. Her book, Saving Community Journalism:
The Path to Profitability, will be published by UNC Press
in spring 2014 and is based on five years of research,
involving more than two dozen newspapers around the
country. As a senior executive, Abernathy oversaw the
launch of new enterprises and helped increase revenue at
some of the nation’s most prominent news organizations
and publishing companies, including The Wall Street
Journal, The New York Times and the Harvard Business
Review. Prior to joining the school, she was vice president
and executive director of industry programs at the Paley
Center for Media in New York City.
ROSENTAL CALMON ALVES is a professor and holds the
Knight Chair in Journalism and the UNESCO Chair in
Communication at the School of Journalism, where he is
also the director of the Knight Center for Journalism in the
Americas. He began his academic career in the U.S. in
1996, after 27 years as a professional journalist, including
seven years as a journalism professor in Brazil. He spent
most of his career at Jornal do Brasil, which was then
a leading newspaper in Rio de Janeiro, where worked
as a reporter, foreign correspondent, executive editor
and director. In early 1995, he managed the creation of
Jornal do Brasil’s online edition, making it the first Brazilian
newspaper available on the Web. At the University of
Texas, Alves created in1997-98 the first course on online
journalism and since then he has been teaching classes
related to digital media. In 2011, he created a class on
entrepreneurial journalism. He also teaches courses on
international reporting and Latin American journalism.
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LAURA AMICO is founder of the award-winning Homicide
Watch enterprise and is a core member of digital
journalism’s Structured Journalism movement. A 2013
Nieman-Berkman fellow in journalism innovation at
Harvard, she’s now working with WBUR to launch a
structured journalism education reform beat covering
Massachusetts. She is a 2011 MJ Bear Fellow with the Online
News Association, a fellow at the 6th Annual Harry Frank
Guggenheim Symposium on Crime in America, a Knight
News Entrepreneur Boot Camp alum, and a New York
Times Chairman’s award winner.
A.J. “ALEX” AVILA is a Ph.D. candidate in journalism at
the University of Texas at Austin. From 1998 to 2010, Avila
was a producer for the NPR program Latino USA. His
journalistic experience also includes work as an assistant
editor for Hispanic Magazine, managing editor for the
National Hispanic Journal, and managing editor for
Arriba Art & Business News. He has taught journalism
and media communications at St. Edward’s University
in Austin, at San Antonio College, and at Texas A&MCommerce. Avila’s Master’s thesis, “Exploring a New Radio
Audience,” analyzed the podcast audience for the NPR
program where he worked. As an award-winning national
journalist, Avila has spoken frequently on ethnic media and
immigration issues. His current research focus is on digital
media audiences and issues of identity.
Avila is the author of Bienvenido a Miami y Más:
Immigration Frames In English and Spanish Newspapers
During the 2012 Florida Republican Primary, accepted into
the peer-reviewed #ISOJ journal.
JIM BANKOFF runs all aspects of Vox Media, one of the
fastest growing online publishers, focused on sports,
personal technology and gaming categories. Vox has
enjoyed remarkable growth by delivering the most
valuable digital storytelling, online communities, advertising
and audiences. SB Nation, its sports brand, boasts
over 30 million users per month across 300 individually
branded, fan-centric sports communities, each covering
a specific professional or college team, league or sport. In
November 2011, Vox Media launched The Verge, which
has quickly established itself as a category leader and the
fastest growing site that covers technology. In Oct. 2012,
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Vox launched Polygon, a site dedicated to news and
community for fans of gaming, anchored by an all-star
roster of writers. All Vox Media sites are built upon its worldclass proprietary publishing platform, Chorus. The company
enjoys support from leading investors including Accel
Partners, Comcast Interactive Capital and Khosla Ventures.
A veteran of the online industry, Bankoff developed and
led dozens of the most popular websites on the Internet
including AOL, Mapquest, Moviefone, AOL Music, TMZ and
Engadget as an executive vice president at AOL.
Bankoff also oversaw AOL’s industry-leading instant
messaging services, AIM and ICQ, and social networking
and community applications including Blogsmith and
Netscape. His accomplishments have earned him wide
recognition, most notably the first Emmy ever awarded to
a webcast, for his role as executive producer of the Live 8
concerts online.
MARTIN “MARTY” BARON became executive editor of
The Washington Post on Jan. 2, 2013. He oversees the
Post’s print and digital news operations. Previously, Baron
had been editor of The Boston Globe since 2001. During
his tenure, The Globe won six Pulitzer Prizes—for public
service, explanatory journalism, national reporting and
criticism. The Pulitzer Prize for Public Service was awarded
in 2003 for a Globe Spotlight Team investigation into clergy
sex abuse in the Catholic Church. Prior to the Globe, he
held top editing positions at The New York Times, The Los
Angeles Times and The Miami Herald. Under his leadership,
The Miami Herald won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News
Coverage in 2001 for its coverage of the raid to recover
Elián González, the Cuban boy at the center of a fierce
immigration and custody dispute. Baron was named
Editor of the Year by Editor & Publisher magazine in 2001,
and Editor of the Year by the National Press Foundation in
2004. He began his journalism career at The Miami Herald
in 1976, serving as a state reporter and later as a business
writer. In 1979, he moved to The Los Angeles Times, where
he became business editor in 1983; assistant managing
editor for page-one special reports, public opinion polling
and special projects in 1991; and, in 1993, editor of the
newspaper’s Orange County Edition, which then had
about 165 staffers. In 1996, Baron moved to The New York
Times; he became associate managing editor responsible
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for the nighttime news operations of the newspaper in
1997. He was named executive editor at The Miami Herald
at the start of 2000. Born in 1954 and raised in Tampa, FL,
Baron speaks fluent Spanish. He graduated from Lehigh
University in 1976 with both BA and MBA degrees.
ADRIANA BARSOTTI is a journalist and professor of digital
journalism at Ibmec University in Rio de Janeiro. Currently
undertaking doctoral studies in Social Communication
at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, she holds
a Master’s in Social Communication from the same
institution and an undergraduate degree from the Federal
University of Rio de Janeiro. She has 25 years of professional
experience, having worked in both print and digital
journalism in newsrooms for the papers O Estado de S.
Paulo and O Globo, and the magazine IstoÉ, where she
held the posts of reporter and editor. She was awarded
two Esso de Jornalismo prizes and the Prêmio Compós
de Dissertação 2013 prize, for her work Contemporary
Transformations in Journalistic Practices: Online Journalists
as Audience Mobilizers, awarded by the National
Association for Postgraduate Programs in Communication
Programs. Barsotti is currently a columnist at O Globo and
an editorial digital planning consultant for the editorial
market.
Barsotti is the author of Two Screens, Two Paths: News
Production For Smartphones and Tablets on the Brazilian
Newspaper Scene, accepted into the peer-reviewed #ISOJ
journal.
JOSHUA BENTON is director of the Nieman Journalism Lab.
Before spending a year at Harvard as a 2008 Nieman
Fellow, he spent 10 years in newspapers, most recently
at The Dallas Morning News. His reports on cheating on
standardized tests in the Texas public schools led to the
permanent shutdown of a school district and won the
Philip Meyer Journalism Award from Investigative Reporters
and Editors. He has reported from 10 countries, been a
Pew Fellow in International Journalism, and a three-time
finalist for the Livingston Award for International Reporting.
Before Dallas, Benton was a reporter and rock critic for The
Toledo Blade. He is a big nerd who started blogging when
Bill Clinton was still president.
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LARRY BIRNBAUM is a professor of electrical engineering
and computer science, and of journalism, at Northwestern
University. He is a founder of the Knight Lab, an
interdisciplinary center for innovation in news and media
technology at Northwestern, as well as co-director of the
Intelligent Information Laboratory there. Larry is also a
founder and chief scientific advisor of Narrative Science
Inc. His research encompasses artificial intelligence, natural
language processing, machine learning, human-computer
interaction, and intelligent information systems. He has
authored or co-authored more than 130 articles and
holds 17 patents. Birnbaum received his B.S. and Ph.D. in
computer science from Yale University (the latter in 1986)
and joined the Northwestern faculty in 1989.
JIM BRADY is the editor-in-chief of Digital First Media and
oversees the editorial strategy and operations of its 75 daily
newspapers, 292 non-daily publications and 341 online
sites. Before joining DFM, Brady served as general manager
of TBD, a local startup that combined the values of
traditional journalism and the power of citizen journalism.
Brady joined TBD after more than four years as executive
editor of washingtonpost.com, where he led the site to
numerous awards and accolades. Brady was also part of
washingtonpost.com’s launch team in 1996, and served in
various roles there from 1995 to 1999. In between his stints
at washingtonpost.com, Brady spent more than four years
at America Online, serving as group programming director,
news & sports; executive director, editorial operations; and
vice president, production & operations. During his time at
AOL, Brady was in charge of the service’s coverage of the
9/11 terrorist attacks and the 2000 presidential election.
R.B. BRENNER is the deputy director of Stanford University’s
Journalism Program and a former Washington Post editor.
Recently, he was appointed as director of the School of
Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, effective
Aug. 1, 2014. The appointment marks a return to the School
of Journalism, where he was a visiting lecturer in the spring
of 2009. His editing roles at The Washington Post included
Maryland editor, metropolitan editor, Sunday editor, and
deputy universal news editor. He was one of the primary
editors of the newspaper’s coverage of the Virginia Tech
shootings, which was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2008.
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The following year he helped lead the merger of The Post
digital and print newsrooms. At Stanford University, his
professional home since September 2010, Brenner is both
the deputy director of the Journalism Program and a
lecturer in the Department of Communication. He teaches
public issues reporting, digital journalism, and long-form
feature writing. A graduate of Oberlin College, he began
his reporting career at the Winston-Salem Journal in North
Carolina and then worked as a reporter and editor at
newspapers in California and Florida before joining The
Washington Post. He is an adjunct faculty member at the
Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, FL.
YING CHAN is a writer, educator, and the founding
director of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre. As
an academic unit of The University of Hong Kong, the
JMSC offers professional graduate and undergraduate
degrees in journalism, M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees. She was
the founding dean (2003-2011) of the journalism school at
Shantou University in China. Prior to joining HKU in 1998,
Chan spent 23 years working as a journalist in New York
City, where she reported for the Daily News, NBC News,
and a number of Chinese-language dailies. Chan’s
honors include a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University,
a George Polk Award for journalistic excellence and an
International Press Freedom Award by the Committee
to Protect Journalists. She is a Public Lead of Creative
Commons Hong Kong, a board member of the Media
Development Loan Fund, and the chair of the World
Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Informed
Societies.
RAHUL CHOPRA is the senior vice president of video for
News Corporation, where he is responsible for video
expansion across all of the company’s properties
worldwide. He is now part of the executive team of the
recently acquired Storyful, as chief revenue officer. Prior to
joining News Corp., Chopra oversaw video globally across
Dow Jones, including WSJ Live, The Wall Street Journal’s
video initiative, which generates more than four hours
of live video per day and is available on more than 30
platforms, including Apple TV, Roku and YouTube. Chopra
held multiple roles within business development at Dow
Jones, primarily focusing on the Journal’s video, mobile
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and tablet expansion strategy, as well as developing
external strategic partnerships to expand reach and
distribution. Before joining Dow Jones, he worked in
investment banking for several years with Morgan Stanley
and the Bank of New York. Chopra holds an M.B.A. from
the HEC School of Management in Paris and a B.S. in
economics from Rutgers University.
JOEY CHUNG is the co-founder and CEO of The New Lens,
one of the fastest growing digital news sites in Asia, which
was started in mid-2013. Before starting The News Lens,
he was with the Japanese multinational character and
media company Sanrio, first starting out in San Francisco
and Los Angeles as its business development manager. He
then became president of its China operations in Shanghai
between 2011-2013. Before that, he worked for Polo Ralph
Lauren in New York, the Equity Research Department of thr
investment bank UBS, and was a reporter and columnist
for The Taipei Times. He graduated from Harvard Business
School with an M.B.A. in 2009, and has published six books
in the Greater China markets, where he is also a columnist
for Business Weekly Taiwan. He was raised in the U.S. and
Taiwan.
JOHN COOK is the editor-in-chief of The Intercept, a digital
magazine launched by First Look Media in concert with
Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Jeremy Scahill to
cover national security, surveillance, criminal justice, and
politics. Prior to that, he was the editor-in-chief of Gawker,
where, among other things, he broke the story of Toronto
Mayor Rob Ford’s crack cocaine abuse. Before joining
Gawker, Cook served in a variety of reporting and editorial
positions at Radar Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, Mother
Jones, Yahoo! News, and Brill’s Content. He has also written
for The New York Times Magazine, Slate, the Columbia
Journalism Review, BookForum, The Los Angeles Times, and
a variety of other outlets. He has taught magazine writing
at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism
and is the co-author of Our Noise: The Story of Merge
Records.
TODD CUNNINGHAM oversees USC Annenberg’s Media
Impact Project at the Norman Lear Center. While at MTV
and Viacom, Cunningham was nationally recognized for
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groundbreaking research quantifying the impact value
of multi-screen media engagement as published in the
Journal of Advertising Research. Cunningham is also the
first market researcher named ‘Marketer of the Year’ by
Brandweek Magazine.
JULIETTE DE MAEYER is an assistant professor at the
Department of Communication at Université de Montréal
(Canada). Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher at
City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism
and she earned her doctoral degree at Université Libre
de Bruxelles (Belgium). Her research revolves around the
materiality of news production, with a specific interest
in online news, the objects that shape journalism and
discourses about the future of the news. Her work has been
published in journals such as New Medias & Society and
Journalism Practice.
De Maeyer is the author of All the News That’s Fit to Link: An
Exhaustive Analysis of Links in Their Editorial Context.
DANIEL EILEMBERG has joined Fusion as chief digital officer
and senior vice president. In his new role, he’ll oversee
all of Fusion’s digital, mobile, and social media platforms.
Eilemberg was most recently a visiting Nieman Fellow at
Harvard University. He founded Animal Político, Mexico’s
first news platform to launch exclusively on Twitter in 2010.
He was previously editor of PODER Magazine and was also
editor of Hispanic and LOFT Magazines. From 2002 to 2005,
Eilemberg worked in the creative department of MetroGoldwyn-Mayer. He is the founder and managing director
of the ABC Fellows program.
PAUL FONTAINE is a doctoral student in the Department
of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill
University (Canada). His research centers on diasporic
communication networks in Canada, as well as
journalism’s role in collective memory making. His past
work focused on mass media representations of cultural
minority groups and the diasporic communication outlets
that push back against negative stereotyping. Fontaine’s
dissertation interrogates prevalent understandings of
South Asian masculinity by illuminating the efforts of South
Asian-Canadians to provide alternate communication
networks for constituting identity. His research focuses
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on regional and local responses to gendered, racialized
understandings of South Asian identity. Primary research
interests are in diasporic communication, multiculturalism
discourses, representations of masculinity, journalism’s
role in collective memory, and myth and storytelling in
journalism.
Fontaine is the co-author of Preserving the Unpreservable:
Form, Content, Copyright and the Archiving of Born-Digital
Newspapers, accepted into the peer-reviewed #ISOJ
journal.
GLENN FRANKEL is the director of the School of Journalism
and G.B. Dealey Regents Professor in Journalism at the
University of Texas at Austin. He spent 33 years in the news
business, most of them as a reporter, editor and foreign
correspondent for The Washington Post, and four years as
a visiting professor at Stanford University. He is the author of
two books and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for International
Reporting. As a foreign correspondent and domestic
news reporter and editor, Frankel covered some of the
most momentous events of the modern era, including the
uprising against the apartheid regime in South Africa, the
Arab-Israeli conflict, the first and second Gulf Wars and the
political and economic transformation of Europe. Frankel’s
principal mission as director is to help the school adapt to
the digital revolution that is transforming modern media
and changing the way news is reported, transmitted
and consumed throughout the world. By reforming its
curriculum, emphasizing critical thinking alongside modern
practice and creating new partnerships with journalism
innovators and other disciplines, the school seeks to play a
role in shaping the future of American journalism through its
students.
VALTTERI HALLA is an entrepreneur and CTO of Leia Media,
a start up company from Finland developing digital
business and technology solutions for the print media
industry. Valtteri is a professional in the fields of computing,
software, mobile and Internet services. He has 20 years of
experience in product development and management
from companies such as Nokia and Intel. While at Nokia,
Valtteri was one of the leaders of the pioneering Linuxbased smartphone OS. Valtteri holds a Master’s in physics
and computer and information sciences from Helsinki
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University of Technology and a Master’s in economics from
Helsinki School of Economics. Leia Media is developing a
new digital solution called LivePaper with a consortium of
publishers, R&D companies and educational institutions
involved in the Finnish media industry. The goal is to
develop a convenient and easy replacement for paper
that still delivers the same experience as reading the news
daily.
ROBERT HERNANDEZ, a.k.a. WebJournalist, has made a
name for himself as a journalist of the Web, not just on
the Web. His primary focus is exploring and developing
the intersection of technology and journalism - to
empower people, inform reporting and storytelling,
engage community, improve distribution and, whenever
possible, enhance revenue. He is an assistant professor
of professional practice at USC Annenberg School
for Communication and Journalism, but he’s not an
academic… he’s more of a “hackademic” and specializes
in “MacGyvering” Web journalism solutions. He connects
dots and people. He has worked for seattletimes.com,
SFGate.com, eXaminer.com, La Prensa Gráfica, among
others. Hernandez is also the co-founder of #wjchat and
creator of Learn Code for Journalism with Me project. He
is currently serving on the Online News Association board
and is a lifetime member of the National Association of
Hispanic Journalists.
JAKE HOROWITZ is the editor-in-chief and co-founder
of PolicyMic. He manages PolicyMic’s editorial team,
leads content strategy, and overseas site growth. Under
his leadership, PolicyMic’s audience of highly engaged
millennials has grown by more than 1,000 percent since
Dec. 2012, attracting over 14 million unique visitors each
month. Prior to PolicyMic, Horowitz was a writer for Change.
org, lived and worked on both sides of the Israel-Palestine
conflict, researched democracy and governance issues
in Morocco, and worked for the Carnegie Endowment in
Beirut, Lebanon. A graduate of Stanford University, where
he studied Middle East history and politics, Horowitz now
resides in Brooklyn, NY.
REBECCA HOWARD joined The New York Times as general
manager, video production, in Feb. 2013. In this role, she is
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responsible for developing and growing The Times’s video
content across all platforms. Most recently, Howard served
as head of video development for the AOL Huffington
Post Media Group, where she was responsible for original
scripted and non-scripted series including development,
production and programming. Previously, Howard was the
vice president of production at Fox Digital Studios and a
production designer for commercials and feature films. A
graduate of The University of Vermont, Howard resides in
New York.
PATRICK HOWE is an assistant professor of journalism
at California Polytechnic State University, where he
teaches multimedia and data journalism and advises the
student newspaper, Mustang News. He has worked as
an investigative reporter and political correspondent in
Washington, D.C. and statehouse newsrooms, and his work
has appeared in hundreds of newspapers, magazines and
digital news sites. He covered Congress and the Clinton
White House for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and
wrote about politics and government for The Associated
Press. Howe has won state and national-level awards for
investigative reporting, public affairs reporting, column
writing and layout and design. He graduated from the
University of Minnesota with a dual major in journalism
and political science and earned his Master’s degree
in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
His research interests have focused on online news and
advertising.
Howe is the co-author of Native Advertising And Digital
Natives: The Effects of Age and Advertisement Format on
News Website Credibility Judgments, accepted into the
peer-reviewed #ISOJ journal.
JOHN KEEFE is the senior editor on the Data News Team
at public radio station WNYC in New York. The team
helps infuse the station’s journalism with data reporting,
visualizations, crowdsourcing and sensor projects. Keefe
was WNYC’s news director for nine years, has been an
adjunct instructor at several NYC colleges and universities
and is an adviser to CensusReporter.org. He tweets at
@jkeefe and blogs at johnkeefe.net. The Data News Team
blog is datanews.wnyc.org.
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EDWARD (TED) KIAN is the Welch-Bridgewater Endowed
Chair of Sports Media in the School of Media and Strategic
Communications at Oklahoma State University. A former
professional sports journalist for newspapers, magazines,
and Internet sites, Kian’s research focuses primarily on
sport communication, specifically examining areas such
as portrayals of gender in media content, new media,
attitudes and experiences of sports journalists, and
marketing of sports to LGBT consumers. He has authored
more than 60 journal articles, conference papers, and
invited book chapters. Kian’s research, journalism, or
expertise has been cited by outlets such as 60 Minutes and
Fox Sports.
Kian is the co-author of Curmudgeons But Yet Adapters:
Impact of Web 2.0 and Twitter on Newspaper Sport
Journalists’ Jobs, Responsibilities, and Routines, accepted
into the peer-reviewed #ISOJ journal.
MELODY KRAMER is a digital strategist and associate editor
for NPR in Washington, D.C. She is currently working on
several projects involving breaking news, sourcing, daily
news production, social media, archives, and analytics.
She works with everyone from the VP of News to NPR
reporters to librarians to interns to producers to coders.
Before joining NPR, she worked as editor and writer at
National Geographic. She wrote features for the Web and
magazine, and helped out with digital strategy for the
magazine. She used to work as an associate producer at
NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross, where she was responsible
for writing and producing all Web content and social
media, in addition to writing/producing some daily on-air
content. Before Fresh Air, she worked as the director and
associate producer at NPR’s Peabody award-winning
humor show Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me (where she wrote
jokes) and was a 2006 Kroc Fellow at NPR (where she
recorded and produced pieces for broadcast and web.)
She has also written for NPR.org, Esquire, The Pennsylvania
Gazette and The Daily Pennsylvanian. Her work has
been featured by the Nieman Journalism Lab, The New
York Times, Poynter, Audiophiles, Current, the Shorty
Awards, the Philadelphia Geek Awards, The Village Voice,
Geekadelphia, and NPR Digital Services Knight Foundation
Training.
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JUANITA LEÓN is the founder and director of La Silla
Vacía, an independent online media focused on politics
and power in Colombia. She has a law degree from the
University of Los Andes in Bogota, and a Master’s degree
in journalism from Columbia University. She was a 2006
Harvard Nieman Fellow. She is the author of two books
on the war in Colombia. Her latest one, Country of Bullets,
won the third prize of the Ulyses Lettre Award. She was the
launch editor of Semana.com and Flypmedia.com in New
York. She has taught journalism at the New York University
School of Journalism and at the University of Los Andes.
CAROLINE LITTLE is president and CEO of the Newspaper
Association of America, the industry’s largest trade
organization. Prior to being named president in Sept.
2011, she served for four years as CEO, North America of
Guardian News and Media Ltd., where she oversaw all
U.S. operations, including digital news media properties
guardian.co.uk and ContentNext Media Inc. Before that,
Little was publisher and CEO of WashingtonPost Newsweek
Interactive, where she led the division to its first year of
profitability and integrated WPNI with other units of The
Washington Post Company. From 2000 through 2004, she
served as COO, managing all WPNI product development,
technology, sales and marketing activities. Little has
served as deputy general counsel for several publications,
including U.S. News & World Report, The Atlantic Monthly,
and Fast Company. She began her career in 1986 as an
associate in Arnold & Porter’s Washington, D.C. office. Little
is a member of the District of Columbia Bar Association,
and has served as a director at the American Press
Institute, chair of the Online Publishers Association, and
a member of the Internet Advertising Bureau Board of
Directors and of Google’s Publisher Advisory Council. She
graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Wesleyan University and
holds a law degree from the New York University School of
Law.
LISA LYNCH is an associate professor in the Department
of Journalism at Concordia University (Canada). Her work
is highly interdisciplinary, and has appeared in journals
ranging from Journalism Practice to New Literary History to
The Arab Studies Journal. Most recently, she has published
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a number of essays and book chapters on the relationship
between Wikileaks and the mainstream press. She has
three concurrent research projects underway: a SSHRCfunded investigation into the way Canadian newspapers
understand Internet governance; a Grand/NCE funded
project on the archiving of born-digital news materials, and
a project on newsgaming funded by an international grant
from Concordia University. Find her at lisalynch.org.
Lynch is the author of ‘A Huge Culture Change:’
Newsrooms at La Presse and The Montreal Gazette Reflect
on the Shift to Digital-First, accepted into the peerreviewed #ISOJ journal.
MICHAEL MANESS joined Knight Foundation in 2011. He
leads Knight’s Journalism and Media Innovation program.
Previously, he was Gannett’s vice president of innovation
and design. During his tenure, he led the creation of an
innovation process based on human-centered design
and launched multiple new brands. He also served as vice
president of strategic planning for Gannett’s newspaper
division, launched several local news sites across the
company and developed the industry’s first daily video
newscast on the Web done without a television partner.
In addition, Maness was named to the Newspaper
Association of America’s list of “20 under 40” and was a
co-winner in 2007 of the Chairman’s Special Achievement
Award at Gannett. Before joining Gannett, Maness was
an analyst and media consultant, a campaign manager
and a marketing account executive. He is a graduate of
Northwestern University. Maness has been a member of
Knight Foundation’s journalism advisory committee for the
past four years.
HIGINIO “H.O.” MAYCOTTE, the great-grandson of the
Mexican general who shot off Pancho Villa’s leg, embodies
the spirit of a true revolutionary. His infectious passion and
uncanny ability to predict the future has led him to found
many successful start-ups including: Flightlock (acquired by
Control Risks), Finetooth (now called Mumboe), and one
of the first online non-profit media organizations, the Texas
Tribune. He leads the Umbel team with one eye focused
on battle tactics, one eye focused on long-term vision,
and one eye focused on his iPhone. H.O. studied electrical
and biomechanical engineering at the University of Texas.
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RIYAAD MINTY is the project lead for a startup project
within Al Jazeera called Project AJ+. Project AJ+ is a new,
digital-only channel targeted at a younger generation
of digital natives. Previously, Minty help build the New
Media team at Al Jazeera and was responsible for building
and managing the global social media strategy for the
network. He was responsible for incubating new ideas
around social technologies, developing core digital
strategies for new and existing channels and leading a
multinational team across all channels and languages
within the Al Jazeera Media Network. As one of the early
adopters of social media within a news environment, his
work on using citizen media for crisis reporting has helped
define standards used by media organizations around the
world. His work around the 2008-2009 war on Gaza, the
2009 Iran elections and the Arab Spring changed the way
the network used digital technologies for news reporting.
At 30, Minty has been recognized as a global leader in the
field of digital media. He has presented his social media
strategy at leading media conferences around the world
and is regularly interviewed by global media on the role
of citizen media in times of crisis reporting. Prior to joining
Al Jazeera, Minty co-founded Future Technologies, a
South African company that focused on mobile content
production, aggregation and distribution.
LOGAN MOLYNEUX left a small newspaper to become a
doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin. His
research focuses on mobile technology and social media,
specifically how journalists are engaging with these new
tools.
Molyneux is the co-author of Branding (Health) Journalism:
Perceptions, Practices, and Emerging Norms.
JAMES (JIM) MORONEY, III is the chairman, president
and CEO of A. H. Belo Corporation. He has served as
executive vice president of A. H. Belo since Nov. 2007.
He continues to serve as publisher and CEO of The Dallas
Morning News, a position he has held since June 2001.
Moroney has served on the board of the Television Bureau
of Advertising and numerous civic organizations. He
presently serves on the boards of Belo Corporation, the
Associated Press, the Executive Committee of the board of
the Newspaper Association of America, the board of the
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American Press Institute, the Advisory Board of the College
of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin,
the Bishop’s Finance Council of the Diocese of Dallas,
the board of The Dallas Foundation and the State Fair of
Texas. He was named “Publisher of the Year” by Editor
and Publisher magazine in 2003. In 2012, he received the
Frank W. Mayborn Award from The Texas Daily Newspaper
Association for Community Leadership. Moroney
graduated from Stanford University in 1978 with a B.A. in
American Studies. In 1983 he received his M.B.A. from the
University of Texas at Austin.
PAULA POINDEXTER, who has been a manager and
executive at The Los Angeles Times and a reporter and
producer for KPRC-TV, the NBC affiliate in Houston, is
president of AEJMC, the largest association of journalism
educators, graduate students, and media and
communication professionals in the world. Poindexter, who
teaches journalism undergraduate and graduate courses,
earned her Ph.D. degree from Syracuse University’s S.I.
Newhouse School of Public Communications. Poindexter
has published three books, and is also the author or
co-author of more than 50 scholarly journal articles,
book chapters, and conference papers, and over 60
professional articles, book reviews, and presentations.
Poindexter has been the recipient of national awards and
campus recognition and she has taken a leadership role
on several important initiatives. She was awarded AEJMC’s
Inaugural Lionel C. Barrow Jr. Award for Distinguished
Achievement in Diversity Research and Education, and
she received a First Place Award in AEJMC’s “Excellence
in Teaching Paper Competition.” Additionally, Poindexter’s
proposed course, Journalism, Society, and the Citizen
Journalist, was selected for the Carnegie-Knight Initiative
on the Future of Journalism Education. Plus, Poindexter,
who directed UT’s journalism graduate program for five
years, was nominated for Outstanding Graduate Advisor
at the University of Texas at Austin.
TIM POOL is an American journalist whose unique style of
interactive broadcast journalism exists at the intersection
of social and mainstream media. As a producer for VICE
Media, he has covered major events around the world
in places such as Istanbul, Cairo, and Sao Paulo. Pool’s
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coverage for VICE.com, as well as his groundbreaking
livestream coverage of the 2011 Occupy Wall Street
protest movement, has been featured by international
media outlets including The Guardian, Reuters, The New
York Times, NBC, FastCompany, and Al Jazeera English.
He is known for pushing the boundaries of journalism
by consistently utilizing new technologies, such as
livestreaming aerial drones, mobile devices, and even
Google Glass. Pool was featured in TIME’s person of the
year 2011, was a nominee to the TIME 100 in 2012, and
was the recipient of the Shorty Award for Best Journalist in
Social Media in 2013.
MATTHEW POWERS is an assistant professor in the
Department of Communication at the University of
Washington in Seattle. His academic research has been
published in the International Journal of Press/Politics,
International Journal of Communication, and Journal of
Communication, among others. He is currently writing a
book manuscript on the information work of humanitarian
and human rights NGOs and their place in the changing
media landscape.
Powers is the author of Can NGOs Do Journalism? Do They
Even Want To? Understanding the Information Work of
Leading Humanitarian and Human Rights NGOs.
EMILY RAMSHAW oversees The Texas Tribune’s editorial
operations, from daily coverage to major projects.
Previously, she spent six years reporting for The Dallas
Morning News, first in Dallas, then in Austin. In April 2009
she was named Star Reporter of the Year by the Texas
Associated Press Managing Editors and the Headliners
Foundation of Texas. Originally from the Washington, D.C.
area, she received a Bachelor’s degree from the Medill
School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
JAMES G. ROBINSON is the director of news analytics at
The New York Times, where he helps journalists and editors
use audience insights to get smarter about how they
produce, promote and publish the Times online. His first
job at the Times was as a product manager, coordinating
a complete redesign and expansion of the online travel
section, after which he helped build the Times’ overall
analytics capabilities as the company’s first director of
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Web analytics. Before joining the Times, he built and
ran BaseballLibrary.com, which aggregated dozens
of print baseball reference books into a 20,000-page
hypertext narrative of baseball history. A native New
Yorker, James received his Master’s degree in interactive
telecommunications from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He
has taught at New York University and Columbia’s School
of Journalism.
JAY ROSEN has been teaching journalism at New York
University since 1986, serving five years as chair of the
program. He is the author of What are Journalists For?
(Yale University Press, 1999), a study of the civic journalism
movement. He is a member of the advisory board
of Digital First Media, the second largest newspaper
company in the U.S., and a consultant to Post Media,
the largest newspaper company in Canada. Rosen is
also on the corporate board of the Gazette Company in
Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He has been writing about the digital
transformation of journalism at his site, PressThink.org, since
2003.
TOM ROSENSTIEL is an author, journalist, researcher and
media critic. Before joining the American Press Institute in
Jan. 2013, he was founder and for 16 years director of the
Project for Excellence in Journalism at the Pew Research
Center in Washington, D.C., and co-founder and vicechair of the Committee of Concerned Journalists. During
his journalism career, Rosenstiel worked as media writer for
The Los Angeles Times for a decade, chief congressional
correspondent for Newsweek, press critic for MSNBC,
business editor of The Peninsula Times Tribune, a reporter
for Jack Anderson’s Washington Merry Go ‘Round column,
and he began his career at the Woodside Country
Almanac in his native northern California. He is the author
of seven books, including The Elements of Journalism:
What News People Should Know and the Public Should
Expect, which has been translated into more than 25
languages, and Blur: How to Know What’s True in the Age
of Information Overload. His newest book, due out later
this year, is The New Ethics of Journalism: Principles for the
21st Century, co-edited with Kelly McBride of the Poynter
Institute.
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AMY SCHMITZ WEISS is an associate professor in the School
of Journalism and Media Studies at San Diego State
University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of
Texas at Austin in 2008. She is a 2011 Dart Academic Fellow.
Schmitz Weiss is also the 2011-2012 Recipient of the AEJMC
Bridge Grant with funding from the John S. and James L.
Knight Foundation that led to the creation of a mobile
news app, AzteCast, for the San Diego State University
campus population. Schmitz Weiss teaches journalism
courses in basic writing and editing, multimedia, Web
design, data journalism and mobile. She also is a former
journalist who has been involved in new media for more
than a decade. She has worked in business development,
marketing analysis and account management for several
Chicago Internet media firms. Schmitz Weiss has presented
her research at several national and international
conferences. Her research interests include online
journalism, media sociology, news production, multimedia
journalism and international communication. Her research
has been published in several peer-reviewed journals, as
book chapters and in a book she co-edited. For more
information, check out digitalamy.com or find her on
Twitter @digitalamysw.
CLAUDIA SILVA is a journalist and a Ph.D. candidate
in digital media at the New University of Lisbon in the
international University of Texas at Austin-Portugal program.
She is currently a visiting scholar at the University of Texas.
She holds an M.A. from the New University of Lisbon and
a B.A. from the Catholic University of Minas Gerais, both
in journalism. She has worked as an arts journalist for the
national Portuguese newspaper Público, and in local
publications in Brazil. Her research interests include how
locative media is changing the way we consume and
produce information through digital mobile devices.
Silva is the author of Back to the Future of News: Looking at
Locative Media Principles in the Pre-News Era, accepted
into the peer-reviewed #ISOJ journal.
JANE SINGER is a professor of entrepreneurial journalism
in the Department of Journalism at City University London
and an associate professor (on leave) in the School of
Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of
Iowa. From 2007 to 2009, she was the Johnston Press Chair
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in Digital Journalism at the University of Central Lancashire,
where she remains a visiting professor. Her research
explores digital journalism, including changing roles,
perceptions, norms, and practices. Before earning a Ph.D.
in journalism from the University of Missouri, she was the
first news manager of Prodigy Interactive Services. Singer
is editor of the forthcoming International Encyclopedia of
Journalism Studies, to be published by Wiley-Blackwell. She
is co-author of Participatory Journalism, published in 2011
by Wiley-Blackwell, and Online Journalism Ethics, published
in 2007 by M.E. Sharpe.
EVAN SMITH is the editor-in-chief and CEO of The Texas
Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan digital news organization
based in Austin recently called “one of the nonprofit
news sector’s runaway success stories.” The Tribune’s
deep coverage of Texas politics and public policy can be
found at its website, texastribune.org; in the pages of The
New York Times; and in newspapers and on TV and radio
stations across the state. In a little more than four years in
operation, the Tribune has won two general excellence
awards from the Online News Association, four Edward
R. Murrow Awards from the Radio Television Digital News
Association, a Sigma Delta Chi award for excellence in
journalism from the Society of Professional Journalists,
and a Knight-Batten award for innovations in journalism.
Before co-founding the Tribune, Smith spent nearly 18
years at Texas Monthly, including eight years as editor
and a year as president and editor-in-chief. On his watch,
Texas Monthly twice won the National Magazine Award
for General Excellence. For eight years, Smith hosted the
Lone Star Emmy Award-winning weekly interview program
Texas Monthly Talks, which aired on PBS stations statewide.
He currently hosts Overheard with Evan Smith, airing on PBS
stations nationally. A New York native, he has a Bachelor’s
degree in public policy from Hamilton College and a
Master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University.
SLYVIA STEAD is the first public editor of The Globe and
Mail, Canada’s national newspaper. In that job for the
past two years, she oversees ethical standards and issues,
manages corrections, legal and other issues from the
public. She is the chair of a committee which produced
The Globe’s public Code of Conduct. Before that, she was
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deputy editor of the paper, acting for the editor-in-chief in
his absence and responsible for hiring, training and legal
matters. Stead has been the paper’s national editor and
was a reporter for more than a decade covering politics,
crime and courts and education. Stead won a Governor’s
Award as a graduate of journalism and politics from the
University of Western Ontario. She has also won the internal
George Brown Award for editors. Stead is deputy chair
of the National Newspaper Awards, a board member for
the Canadian Journalism Foundation and on the advisory
board of the University of Western Ontario’s journalism
program. She is married with two daughters, one a
practicing journalist and the other in media advertising.
BRADY TEUFEL teaches courses in multimedia journalism,
news reporting, visual communication and photojournalism
at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
Teufel earned his Bachelor’s degree in sociology from
the University of California at Santa Cruz and his Master’s
degree in journalism from University of Missouri. Teufel
has worked for magazines, newspapers and Internet
startups. Most recently, his website digitaljournalism.org
was named one the 105 Vital Resources for Journalists by
journalismdegree.org.
Teufel is the co-author of Native Advertising And Digital
Natives: The Effects of Age and Advertisement Format on
News Website Credibility Judgments, accepted into the
peer-reviewed #ISOJ journal.
MATT WAITE is a professor of practice at the College of
Journalism and Mass Communications at the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln, teaching reporting and digital
product development. He is also a graduate of the
college, earning a Bachelor of Journalism in 1997. Prior
to joining the faculty, he was the senior news technologist
for the St. Petersburg Times of Florida and the principal
developer of the Pulitzer Prize-winning PolitiFact. In 2007,
he began working as a hybrid journalist/programmer,
combining reporting experience and Web development
to create new platforms for journalism. The first platform he
developed was PolitiFact, a website that fact checks what
politicians say. The site became the first website awarded
the Pulitzer Prize in 2009. After PolitiFact, he and the New
Products Development Team built journalistic products
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involving entertainment listings, high school sports, local
crime and real estate. His projects tripled traffic to high
school sports content, doubled local audience, won
awards and accounted for more than 50 percent of all
traffic to the St. Petersburg Times’ sites in less than a year.
Before becoming a Web developer, he was an awardwinning investigative reporter. He began his journalism
career at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in Little Rock,
covering police and breaking news, including deadly
tornadoes and the crash of American Airlines flight 1420
in 1999. In 2000, he moved to the St. Petersburg Times,
covering crime and city government in a suburban
county. In 2003, he moved to the metro staff of the Times
and later the investigative staff. From 2005-2007, he coauthored a series of award-winning stories about Florida’s
vanishing wetlands. That work was later expanded into
a book, Paving Paradise: Florida’s Vanishing Wetlands
and the Failure of No Net Loss, published in 2009 by the
University Press of Florida. In 2009, he co-founded Hot Type
Consulting, a company that builds applications for media
outlets. Hot Type has helped launch a major new non-profit
journalism entity in the Texas Tribune and has produced
award-winning websites for other clients.
JANINE WARNER’s best-selling books and videos about
the Internet have won her an international following
and earned her speaking and consulting engagements
around the world. She is the founder of DigitalFamily.
com, a full-service interactive design and training agency
that offers web and mobile design, content strategy,
and internet marketing services. She is the author more
than 25 books about the Internet, including Web Sites For
Dummies and Social Media Design For Dummies. She’s also
created more than 50 hours of training videos for leading
online learning companies, Lynda.com, creativeLIVE.
com and KelbyTraining. Warner has taught courses at
the University of Miami and the University of Southern
California. She’s also been a guest lecturer at more than
20 other universities, and in the Fall 2013, she taught a
MOOC on entrepreneurial journalism for the Knight Center
at the University of Texas that attracted more than 5,000
Spanish-speaking students. Warner began her career as
a reporter in Northern California. From 1998 to 2000, she
was the online managing editor and later, director of
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new media, for The Miami Herald. She left that position to
serve as director of Latin American operations for CNET
Networks. Since 2001, Janine has run her own business as
an author, Internet consultant, instructor, and speaker.
She is a member of the TV Academy’s Interactive Media
Peer Group and has served as a judge in the Interactive
Emmy Awards, the Knight News Challenge, the Arroba
de Oro Latin American Internet Awards, and the annual
WSA Mobile Content awards in Abu Dhabi. She lives in Los
Angeles.
EDWARD WASSERMAN, an authority on the ethics,
evolution and ownership of the news media, is dean
of the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley.
Wasserman earned a B.A. in politics and economics from
Yale University in 1970. While attending Yale, he taught in
a remedial program for inner-city children in New Haven,
Conn., and was an associate editor at the country’s oldest
humor magazine, the Yale Record. Wasserman earned a
licence in philosophy from the University of Paris, PantheonSorbonne, in 1972. He received his Ph.D. in media politics
and economics from the London School of Economics
in 1980. Wasserman was the John S. and James L. Knight
Professor of Journalism Ethics at Washington and Lee
University from 2003 to 2012, where he taught courses on
journalism ethics, media ownership and control and the
relationships between the media and the poor. Also at
Washington and Lee, Wasserman launched a studentrun website that spotlights American media coverage
of poverty. He writes a nationally and internationally
distributed biweekly column published in The Miami Herald
and numerous other outlets, sharing his takes on journalistic
issues ranging from political campaign coverage and
plagiarism to WikiLeaks. He was the executive business
editor of The Miami Herald. He also served as the chief
executive officer and editor-in-chief of American Lawyer
Media’s Miami-based Daily Business Review newspaper
chain, and as editorial director of Primedia Inc., which
publishes weekly trade and consumer magazines.
NICHOLAS WHITAKER, before joining Google in 2010,
spent the previous decade producing, directing, editing,
and shooting thousands of videos and still images for
news, commercial, entertainment and advocacy media.
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Whitaker has also been a professor at Eugene Lang
College The New School for Liberal Arts, and Marymount
Manhattan College, teaching courses in video production,
new media and media theory. Whitaker currently leads
outreach and training efforts on the Google for Media
team covering services including geo-related tools, trends,
Google+/YouTube and data visualization for journalists
around the world.
NICHOLAS WHITE is CEO and editor-in-chief of The Daily
Dot, which he co-founded with Josh Jones-Dilworth, Nova
Spivack, and Zach Richardson in 2011. He has written
for a variety of print and Internet publications, including
PBS MediaShift, Open Forum and Wired, and speaks
internationally on the Internet, journalism and the media
business. White is a sixth-generation journalist whose
family has owned Sandusky Newspapers since 1869. His
great-grand-uncle, Isaac Foster Mack, co-founded the
Associated Press. One of the oldest single-family owned
news companies in the country, Sandusky Newspapers
has expanded to operate regional newspapers and
websites in the South, Midwest, and West. White founded
his first company at the age of 20, where he produced
and directed for theater and film. After burning out on the
entertainment business, he turned to journalism, where he
placed in the AP awards for business reporting in his first
year at a community newspaper. He ultimately served
as vice president of audience development, overseeing
editorial, marketing, and technical and advertising
product development for the six Web properties in
Sandusky Newspapers, Inc. Midwest Division. He holds
a Bachelor’s degree in English and philosophy from
Haverford College, a Master’s in American studies from
Columbia University, and a Master’s in psychology from the
University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the board
of directors at Sandusky Newspapers and the Mack S. Rau
Foundation, which supports a variety of charities, most
recently those benefitting veterans.
KATHARINE ZALESKI is the managing editor of NowThis
News, a startup that aims to be the video news network for
the social and mobile generation. Since launching on iOS
in Nov. 2012, NowThis News has seen its viewership grow
by the millions across multiple platforms. Zaleski started
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her media career straight out of Dartmouth College as an
associate producer for CNN’s American Morning where
she was in charge of making sure the show’s hundreds of
graphics, maps and headlines came together for three
hours on live TV each day. After nearly one year working
the overnight shift at CNN, she left to travel the world
for a few months and came back to what she now calls
her “moment”: an offer to be the sixth employee at the
two-week-old Huffington Post. Zaleski ended up working
as the Huffington Post’s senior news editor for four and
half years where she built the company’s news team and
oversaw the front page. She left in Nov. 2009 to take a
role at The Washington Post as executive producer and
head of digital news products. She worked at the Post for
two and a half years, becoming the executive director
of digital news with oversight of digital teams across the
newsroom, including engagement, social media, SEO, the
entertainment and lifestyle coverage groups, the Post’s
aggregation blogging teams and newsroom business
development. During her tenure, the Post re-launched its
Website; introduced numerous mobile apps for Android,
iPhone and iPad; implemented a new CMS; developed
a number of social engagement tools in conjunction with
Twitter, Facebook and other partners; and ultimately saw
engagement - measured by time on site - triple.
YANJUN ZHAO is an assistant professor in the
Communication Department at Cameron University in
Oklahoma. She got her Ph.D. in mass communication from
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Her research
interests are visual communication and media effects.
She has publications on topics covering online journalism,
intercultural communication, and active learning. She has
been recognized as a GIFT Scholar twice by AEJMC.
Zhao is the co-author of The Impact of Curation On Stories’
Objectivity: Audience Criteria of Perceived Objectivity of
Storify, accepted into the peer-reviewed #ISOJ journal.
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