Opening session

• Rosental Calmon Alves, Professor, Knight Chair in Journalism and UNESCO Chair in Communication, School of Journalism, UT Austin (Symposium Chair)

• Lorraine Branham, Director, School of Journalism, UT Austin

• Mark Tremayne, Assistant Professor, School of Journalism, UT Austin (Symposium Research Chair)

Cash Cows or Entrecôte: The Influence of Interdependency on Physical and Virtual Newspapers

• Keynote Speaker: Robert Picard, Hamrin Professor of Media Economics and Director of the Media Management and Transformation Center, Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping University, Sweden

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Audience and Business Models: Will the Online News Industry be Able to Finance Quality Journalism?

Chair: Lorraine Branham, Director, School of Journalism, UT Austin

• Vin Crosbie, President and Managing Partner, Digital Deliverance

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• Gary Meo, Senior Vice President, Print and Internet Services, Scarborough Research

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The Integration of Newsrooms: Should Online and Print Newsrooms Merge?

Chair and Presenter: Pablo J. Boczkowski, Associate Professor, Northwestern University (Author of Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers)

• Len Apcar, Editor-in-Chief, The New York Times on the Web

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• George Rodrigue, Vice President and Managing Editor, The Dallas Morning News

The Emergence of Citizen Journalism and Social Media

Chair and Presenter: Barbara Bry, Founding Editor of Voice of San Diego; COO, Blackbird Venture, La Jolla, CA

• Clyde Bentley, MyMissourian.com, Missouri School of Journalism

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• Dan Pacheco, Senior Product Manager, Bakotopia.com

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• Elizabeth Osder, Local, Search and Social Media, Yahoo.com

The Impact of Citizen Journalism and Social Media on Newspapers

Chair: Robert Rivard, Editor, San Antonio Express-News

• Jim Brady, Vice President and Executive Editor, WashingtonPost.com

• Scott Clark, Vice President and Editor, HoustonChronicle.com

• Juan Carlos Luján Zavala, Editor, ElComercio.com.pe, Lima, Peru

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• Fred Zipp, Managing Editor, Austin American-Statesman

Multimedia Journalism Narrative: Should Online Journalism Embrace Traditional Video, or Try a Richer Blend of Video, Photos, Animation, Text, etc.?

Chair: Donna DeCesare, Assistant Professor, School of Journalism, UT Austin

• Jen Friedberg, Multimedia Producer, Star-Telegram.com, Fort Worth, TX

• Bart Marable, Creative Director, Terra Incognita Productions, Austin, TX

• Mindy McAdams, Professor and Knight Chair in Journalism, University of Florida

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• Jose Manuel Valenzuela, Editor, ep3.es (El Pais' multimedia magazine), Spain

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• Ashley Wells, Executive Producer/Editorial Concepts, MSNBC.com

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Saturday Opening Session

• Rosental Calmon Alves, Professor, Knight Chair in Journalism and UNESCO Chair in Communication, School of Journalism, UT Austin (Symposium Chair)

• Rod Hart, Dean, College of Communication, UT Austin

Internet: The New Frontier for Agenda-Setting Effects

• Keynote Speaker: Maxwell McCombs, Professor and Jesse H. Jones Chair in Communication, School of Journalism, UT Austin

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International Perspectives on Online Journalism

Chair: Maggie Rivas Rodriguez, Associate Professor, School of Journalism, UT Austin

• Guillermo Franco, Editor, ElTiempo.com, Colombia

• Vincent Maher, Director, New Media Lab, Rhodes University, South Africa

• Paula Jung, Doctoral Candidate, Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

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Research Panel: Trends in Online News: Audiences and Content

Chair: Mark Tremayne, Assistant Professor, School of Journalism, UT Austin

• Click Here to Learn More: A Comparison of Online Newspaper, Online Broadcast and Online-Only News Sites (*)

  Donica Mensing, University of Nevada-Reno

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• Looking at Local Dailies’ Election 2004 Online News Coverage (*)

  Tania Cantrell, UT Austin

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• A Periodical Phenomenon: A Look at Podcasting's Effect on Newspaper Audience, Advertising, and Atmosphere (*)

  Major Highfield & Justin Sablich, Syracuse University

• Visualizing Technology: Images in Google and Yahoo News Aggregators (*)

  Cindy Royal, Virginia Commonwealth University

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• Gateway or Gatekeeper: The Institutionalization of Online News in Creating an Altered Technological Authority (**)

  Sue Robinson, Temple University

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Research Panel: Citizen Journalism: Possibilities and Pitfalls

Chair: Steve Reese, Jesse H. Jones Professor and Associate Dean, College of Communication, UT Austin

• Citizen Journalism, Citizen Activism, and Technology: Positioning Technology as a ‘Second Superpower’ in Times of Disasters and Terrorism (*)

  Sharon Meraz, UT Austin

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• Participatory Journalism in the Mainstream: Attitudes and Implementation at British News Websites (**)

  Neil Thurman, City University-London

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• Web 2.0, Society 1.0: Online Citizens Media, But For Which Citizens? (*)

  Lou Rutigliano, UT Austin

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• The Impact of the Internet on Journalism: An Examination of Blogging, Citizen Journalism, and a Dot.Com Solution for the Online Edition (*)

  Julie Neumann, UT Austin

Wrap-up Discussion Session

• Rosental Calmon Alves, Professor, Knight Chair in Journalism and UNESCO Chair in Communication, UT Austin

• Mark Tremayne, Assistant Professor, School of Journalism, UT Austin