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Featured | April 10, 2014
Knight Center’s global conference ISOJ underlines sense of optimism for the future of journalism
The most successful and diverse International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ) to date concluded last weekend underlining a renewed sense of confidence and optimism in the future of the news industry. More than 400 journalists, media executives and academics came to the University of Texas at Austin on April 4 and 5 to participate in … Read More
Featured | April 5, 2014
ISOJ Keynote: Washington Post’s Martin Baron optimistic about the future of journalism
During his keynote speech at the 15th International Symposium on Online Journalism, Martin Baron, executive editor at the Washington Post, talked about why he is optimistic about the future of journalism. However, Baron clarified that his optimism doesn’t necessarily extend to the durability of current media platforms. “There is no acceptable alternative to optimism. We cannot … Read More
Media Startups | April 5, 2014
ISOJ Panel: Media startups mark change and innovation for future of journalism
The young news ventures represented at the panel “Journalism star startups: building innovative media outlets for the digital age,” on the second day of the 15th International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ), were certainly embracing digital media as the future of journalism. With services ranging from covering violent crimes through arrests and hearings to creating a trustworthy … Read More
ISOJ 2014 Archive
Opening Session
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Rosental Calmon Alves, professor, Knight Chair in Journalism and UNESCO Chair in Communication, School of Journalism, University of Texas at Austin - Symposium Chair
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Glenn Franke, director and professor at the School of Journalism, University of Texas at Austin
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Amy Schmitz Weiss, associate professor, San Diego State University - Symposium Research Chair
Building a Media Company for the Digital Age: Lessons from the Field
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
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Keynote speaker: Jim Bankoff , chairman and CEO at Vox Media (The Verge, SBNation, Polygon, Eater, etc)
Bots, drones, sensors, wearables, etc.: The new tools for journalists
Chair and presenter: Janine Warner, journalist turned geek, author and teacher
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Larry Birnbaum, professor of computer science and journalism at Northwestern University; and chief scientific advisor at Narrative Science
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John Keefe, senior editor for Data News & Journalism Technology at WNYC
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Tim Pool, producer at Vice Media
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Matt Waite, professor of practice at University of Nebraska-Lincoln and founder of Journalism Drone Lab
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Nicholas Whitaker, media outreach lead at Google
Journalism ethics and values: Challenges in the digital age
Chair and presenter: Tom Rosenstiel, executive director at American Press Institute
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John Cook, editor-in-chief at First Look Media's digital magazine Intercept, former editor-in-chief at Gawker
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Jane Singer, professor at City University London / University of Iowa
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Sylvia Stead, public editor at The Globe and Mail, Canada
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Edward Wasserman, dean at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Life beyond the newspaper as a paper-only product: Strategies for the newspaper as a hybrid of atoms and bits
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Chair and presenter: Jim Moroney, CEO at A.H. Belo, publisher and CEO at The Dallas Morning News
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Penelope Muse Abernathy, Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Jim Brady, editor-in-chief at Digital First Media, past president of Online News Association
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Valtteri Halla, CTO at Leia Media, Finland
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Caroline Little, president and CEO at Newspaper Association of America
Pushing the frontier of journalism in China: The digital and global challenges
Chair: Glenn Frankel, director and professor at the School of Journalism, University of Texas at Austin
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Keynote speaker: Ying Chan, director and professor at The University of Hong Kong Journalism and Media Studies Centre
Research Panel: New Research Pathways in Digital News Content: From Preservation to Curation
Chair and discussant: Amy Schmitz Weiss, associate professor, San Diego State University
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All the News That's Fit to Link: An Exhaustive Analysis of Links in Their Editorial Context
Juliette De Maeyer, University of Montreal, Canada
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Native Advertising And Digital Natives: The Effects of Age and Advertisement Format on News Website Credibility Judgments
Patrick Howe and Brady Teufel, California Polytechnic State University
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Preserving the Unpreservable: Form, Content, Copyright and the Archiving of Born-Digital Newspapers
Lisa Lynch, Concordia University and Paul Fontaine, McGill University, Canada
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Back to the Future of News: Looking at Locative Media Principles in the Pre-News Era
Claudia Silva, Nova de Lisboa University, Portugal
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The Impact of Curation On Stories' Objectivity: Audience Criteria of Perceived Objectivity of Storify
Vittoria Sacco, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland and Yanjun Zhao, Cameron University
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Bienvenido a Miami y Mas: Immigration Frames In English and Spanish Newspapers During the 2012 Florida Republican Primary
Alex Avila, University of Texas at Austin
What’s Next in Digital Journalism Scholarship?
Chair: Jane Singer, professor at City University London/University of Iowa
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The Lean Newsroom: A Manifesto for Risk: Carrie Brown-Smith, assistant professor at University of Memphis, and Jonathan Groves, assistant professor at Drury University
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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)
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Reciprocal Journalism: Avery Holton, University of Utah; Seth Lewis, University of Minnesota; and Mark Coddington, University of Texas at Austin
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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
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The Engaging News Project: Using A/B Testing for Democratic and Business Goals: Talia Stroud, associate professor at University of Texas at Austin
Giving Good Advice: Reflections of an academic on 25 years of advising journalists and media companies
Chair: Paula Poindexter, president at Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)
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Keynote speaker: Jay Rosen, associate professor at New York University and blogger at PressThink.org
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
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Laura Amico, CEO, editor and founder at Homicide Watch D.C.
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Joey Chung, CEO and co-founder at The News Lens, Taipei, Taiwan
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Jake Horowitz, editor-in-chief and co-founder at PolicyMic
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Juanita Leon, director and founder at La Silla Vacia, Bogota, Colombia
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Emily Ramshaw, editor at Texas Tribune
Research Panel: Emerging Journalistic Practices in the Digital Age
Chair and discussant: Jane Singer, professor at City University London / University of Iowa
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A Huge Culture Change: Newsrooms at La Presse and The Montreal Gazette Reflect on the Shift to Digital-First
Lisa Lynch, Concordia University, Canada
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Branding (Health) Journalism: Perceptions, Practices, and Emerging Norms
Avery Holton, University of Utah and Logan Molyneux, University of Texas at Austin
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Two Screens, Two Paths: News Production For Smartphones and Tablets on the Brazilian Newspaper Scene
Adriana Barsotti, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Can NGOs Do Journalism? Do They Even Want To? Understanding the Information Work of Leading Humanitarian and Human Rights NGOs
Matthew Powers, University of Washington-Seattle
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Curmudgeons But Yet Adapters: Impact of Web 2.0 and Twitter on Newspaper Sport Journalists' Jobs, Responsibilities, and Routines
Edward Kian and Ray Murray, Oklahoma State University
The untold story: Why we should be optimistic about journalism
Chair: Evan Smith, CEO and executive editor at Texas Tribune
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Keynote speaker: Martin Baron, executive editor at The Washington Post
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
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Rahul Chopra, senior vice president video at News Corp.
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Daniel Eilemberg, senior vice president, chief digital officer at Fusion
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Rebecca Howard, general manager video, The New York Times
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Riyaad Minty, project lead of AJ+ at Al Jazeera
Knowing your audience: Readership analytics and editorial strategies for online news
Chair: Joshua Benton, director at Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University
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Todd Cunningham, director at Media Impact Project, the Norman Lear Center at University of Southern California
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Melody Kramer, digital strategist and associate editor at NPR
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Higinio O. Maycotte, CEO and founder at Umbel
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James G. Robinson, director for news analytics at The New York Times
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Nicholas White, CEO and founder at The Daily Dot