Journalism ethics and values: Challenges in the digital age
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