More than 400 people from 41 countries registered for the 2016 International Symposium on Online Journalism, featuring keynote speakers Kinsey Wilson of The New York Times, Yoani Sánchez of Cuba’s 14ymedio and Kara Swisher of tech site Recode. For the first time, conference attendees also heard from a keynote panel of leaders of five nonprofit journalism organizations.
Panels discussed topics as diverse as distributed content, advertising, journalism and activism, women digital leaders, bots, challenges in journalism around the globe and virtual reality. We also heard from researchers about the latest in online journalism trends.
The 17th ISOJ was sponsored by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Google, Dallas Morning News, Moody College of Communication and Univision News. Please explore this page to find presentations, videos and more that will help you to re-live ISOJ 2016.
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April 19, 2016
Periodistas de medios tradicionales discuten la transición digital en Coloquio Iberoamericano del Centro Knight
Casi un centenar de periodistas de 13 países da América Latina, Estados Unidos y España se dieron cita el domingo 17 de abril en el 9º Coloquio Iberoamericano de Periodismo Digital que organizó el Centro Knight para el Periodismo en las Américas en la Universidad de Texas en Austin, gracias al apoyo de Google. El tema de uno … Read More
Research | August 9, 2016
ISOJ accepting research papers for 2017 global conference on digital journalism
*Update: We are no longer accepting submissions for research papers for the 18th year of ISOJ and the #ISOJ Journal.* The International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ) is now accepting submissions of research papers for the 18th year of its global conference and #ISOJ Journal. Papers submitted must be based on original research about online … Read More
Distribution | April 16, 2016
Yoani Sánchez explains how technology has made Cubans more free
A USB memory stick or flash drive represents freedom for many Cubans. Blogger and journalist Yoani Sánchez stated this during the opening panel on the second day of the 17th International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ). “That is much more than a technological device. This small object that fits in a pocket, this is freedom,” … Read More
ISOJ 2016 Archive
Keynote speaker: Kinsey Wilson
Chair: Lorraine Branham, dean of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University
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Kinsey Wilson, editor for innovation and strategy & executive vice president, product and technology, The New York Times
Distributed Content: Can journalism survive and thrive in a media ecosystem where publishers don’t control their distribution channels?
Chair and presenter: Vivian Schiller, independent advisor, formerly with Twitter, NBC, NPR and New York Times
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Summer Anne Burton, Executive Creative Producer, BuzzFeed
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Borja Echevarría, vice president and editor-in-chief, Univision Digital
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David Skok, managing editor & vice president, digital, The Boston Globe
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Robyn Tomlin, vice president and managing editor, The Dallas Morning News
Can advertising still subsidize journalism? The ad blocking war and the news organizations’ efforts to create new revenue streams
Chair and presenter: Jeff Jarvis, professor and director of Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism, CUNY
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Jed Hartman, chief revenue officer, The Washington Post
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Jason Kint, CEO, Digital Content Next (formerly Online Publishers Association)
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Marcelo Leite, director, product and marketing, RBS Media Group, Brazil
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Diane Vickroy, vice president business development, Secret Media
Special keynote panel with the leaders of five nonprofit journalism organizations
Chair and presenter: Emily Bell, director, Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School
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Joaquin Alvarado, CEO, Reveal/Center for Investigative Reporting
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Peter Bale, CEO, Center for Public Integrity
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Bill Keller, editor-in-chief, The Marshall Project
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Evan Smith, editor-in-chief, CEO and co-founder, The Texas Tribune
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Richard Tofel, president, ProPublica
Journalists as activists and activists as journalists: Has the internet blurred the line between journalism and activism/advocacy?
Chair and presenter: Pam Fine, president of ASNE and Knight Chair for News, Leadership and Community at University of Kansas
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Emma Daly, director, communications, Human Rights Watch
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Daniela Gerson, community engagement editor, Los Angeles Times
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Jake Horowitz, founder, Mic.com
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Joel Simon, executive director, Committee to Protect Journalists
Friday Research Panel
Chair and discussant: Amy Schmitz Weiss, associate professor, San Diego State University - ISOJ research chair
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The Economics of Accountability Journalism: What Price Is Right?
James Breiner, University of Navarra (Spain)
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"Security by Obscurity": Journalists' Mental Models of Information Security
Susan McGregor and Elizabeth Anne Watkins, Columbia University
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Journalism: How One University Used Virtual Worlds to Tell True Stories
Leonard Witt, Farooq Kperogi, Claire Bohrer, and Solomon Negash, Kennesaw University and Gwenette Writer Sinclair, CEO/Owner, 1Virtual World Development
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Interactivity, social presence, and journalistic use of Twitter
Jeremy Littau, Lehigh University and Mi Rosie Jahng, Hope College
Keynote speaker: Yoani Sanchez
Chair: Janine Warner, founder and executive director, SembraMedia
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Yoani Sanchez, founder and director, 14ymedio, Cuba
Messaging as a platform and bots as a news service
Chair and presenter: Trei Brundrett, chief product officer, Vox Media
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Ben Brown, co-founder and CEO, XOXCO
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Alastair Coote, mobile developer, Guardian U.S. mobile innovation lab
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Rebecca Harris, founder and CEO, Purple
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Zach Seward, vice president of product and executive editor, Quartz
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Alex Swan, developer, BreakingNews.com/NBCUniversal
Saturday Research Panel
Chair and discussant: Kathleen McElroy, assistant professor, Oklahoma State University
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Did you get the buzz? Are digital native media becoming mainstream?
Lu Wu, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Toward Omnipresent Journalism: A Case Study of the Real-Time Coverage of the San Antonio Spurs 2014 NBA Championship Game
Zhaoxi Liu, Trinity University
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6 things you didn't know about headline writing: Sensational form in viral news of traditional and digitally native news organizations
Danielle Kilgo and Vinicio Sinta, University of Texas at Austin
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Quieting the Commenters: The Spiral of Silence's Persistent Effect on Online News Forums
Hans Meyer and Burton Speakman, Ohio University
Keynote speaker: Kara Swisher
Chair: Evan Smith, editor-in-chief, CEO and co-founder, The Texas Tribune
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Kara Swisher, co-founder and executive editor, Recode
Global round up: Creative solutions for online journalism challenges around the world
Chair: Maria Teresa Ronderos, director of the Program on Independent Journalism, Open Society Foundations
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Andrei Dynko, editor, Nasha Niva, Belarus
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Enock Nyariki, editor, Hivisasa, Kenya
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Kelly G. Niknejad, editor-in-chief, Tehran Bureau
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Carlos Salamanca, business and administration manager, El Faro, El Salvador
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Trevor Snapp, director of programs, Nuba Reports, Sudan
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Galina Timchenko, executive editor, Meduza, Russia
Virtual Reality, the new frontier of journalism storytelling
Chair: Shazna Nessa, director of journalism program, Knight Foundation
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Carla Borrás, series coordinating producer, FRONTLINE, PBS
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R.B. Brenner, director, UT Austin School of Journalism
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Tom Kent, standards editor, Associated Press
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Dan Pacheco, professor of journalism Innovation, Syracuse University
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Jamie Pallot, co-founder, Emblematic Group