The untold story: Why we should be optimistic about journalism

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 Franke, 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

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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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

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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 of Online News Association

  • Valtteri Halla, CTO at Leia Media, Finland

  • Caroline Little, president and CEO at Newspaper Association of America

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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

  • Keynote speaker: Ying Chan, director and professor at The University of Hong Kong Journalism and Media Studies Centre

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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

  • All the News That's Fit to Link: An Exhaustive Analysis of Links in Their Editorial Context

    Juliette De Maeyer, University of Montreal, Canada

  • 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

  • Preserving the Unpreservable: Form, Content, Copyright and the Archiving of Born-Digital Newspapers

    Lisa Lynch, Concordia University and Paul Fontaine, McGill University, Canada

  • Back to the Future of News: Looking at Locative Media Principles in the Pre-News Era

    Claudia Silva, Nova de Lisboa University, Portugal

  • 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

  • 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

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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

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)

  • Keynote speaker: Jay Rosen, associate professor at New York University and blogger at PressThink.org

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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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Research Panel: Emerging Journalistic Practices in the Digital Age

Chair and discussant: Jane Singer, professor at City University London / University of Iowa

  • A Huge Culture Change: Newsrooms at La Presse and The Montreal Gazette Reflect on the Shift to Digital-First

    Lisa Lynch, Concordia University, Canada

  • Branding (Health) Journalism: Perceptions, Practices, and Emerging Norms

    Avery Holton, University of Utah and Logan Molyneux, University of Texas at Austin

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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The untold story: Why we should be optimistic about journalism

Chair: Evan Smith, CEO and executive editor at Texas Tribune

  • Keynote speaker: Martin Baron, executive editor at The Washington Post

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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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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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