Research Panel: The Search for Profitability-Business Models for Online Journalism
Opening Session
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Rosental Calmon Alves, professor, Knight Chair in Journalism and UNESCO Chair in Communication, UT Austin
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Lorraine Branham, director, School of Journalism, UT Austin
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Mark Tremayne, assistant professor, School of Journalism, UT Austin
Keynote: "We the Media: The Rise of Grassroots, Open-Source News"
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Keynote Speaker: Dan Gillmor, Grassroots Media Inc., author of "We The Media."
First Panel: Participatory Journalism in Action: The Cases of ohmynews.com, wikinews.org, and the blogs
Chair and discussant: Lorraine Branham, director, School of Journalism, UT Austin
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Jean Min, deputy chief, international division of Ohmynews.com
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J.D. Lasica, journalist and blogger
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Chuck Olsen, blogger and director of Blogumentary
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Wayne Saewyc, editor and admin, WikiNews.org
Second Panel: Real Time: How Online Journalism Is Responding to the Increasing Demand of Hard News During the Work Day
Chair and presenter: Rosental Calmon Alves, professor, Knight Chair in Journalism and UNESCO Chair in Communication, UT Austin
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Len Apcar, editor-in-chief, The New York Times on the Web
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Jim Brady, executive editor, WashingtonPost.com
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Mary Zerafa, director, LaOpinion.com, Los Angeles
Third Panel: Multimedia Journalism: How Video, Audio, Animation and Other Features Are Creating a New Journalistic Storytelling Style
Chair and presenter: Nora Paul, director, Institute for New Media Studies, University of Minnesota
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Alberto Cairo, multimedia editor, elmundo.es, Spain
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Jonathan Dube, managing producer, MSNBC.com
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Jane E. Stevens, Hearst Foundation Teaching Fellow, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and freelance multimedia journalist
Fourth Panel: Business Model: Online Advertising Is Breaking Records, But Is It Enough to Finance Journalism?
Chair and discussant: Max McCombs, professor, School of Journalism, UT Austin
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Steve Yelvington, digital strategist, Morris Communications
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Jim Debth, Internet general manager, Statesman.com, Austin American Statesman
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Elaine Zinngrabe, director, Los Angeles Times Interactive
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Rusty Coats, general manager at TBO.com in Tampa, Florida (former director for new media, MORI Research)
Keynote: "The Explosion of User-Generated Content Online"
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Keynote speaker: Gary Chapman, director of the 21st Century Project at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at UT Austin and a columnist at the Austin American-Statesman
Research Panel: The Search for Profitability-Business Models for Online Journalism
Chair and discussant: Paula Poindexter, associate professor, School of Journalism, UT Austin
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Prospects for profit: The (un)evolving business model for online news(*)
Donica Mensing, assistant professor, University of Nevada-Reno
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British news websites and the overseas reader (*)
Neil Thurman, senior lecturer in Electronic Publishing, Department of Journalism, City University, London and Visiting Scholar, School of Information Management and Systems, University of California, Berkeley
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Online media, population and economics: facing the relationship among media brands and social indicators in Spain
Manuel Gago, professor, Santiago de Compostela University, Spain
Research Panel: Discussing the News – Researching Blogs and Online Forums
Chair and discussant: Mark Tremayne, assistant professor, School of Journalism, UT Austin
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Bloggergate: How the CBS National Guard Story Affected Coverage of Webloggers (*)
J. Richard Stevens, assistant professor, Southern Methodist University, Texas
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Online Public Forums within Private Institutions (*)
Young-Gil Chae, doctoral student, Radio-TV-Film, College of Communications, UT Austin
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Vital Habits: Community Weblogs in Action (*)
Lou Rutigliano, doctoral student, School of Journalism, UT Austin
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The First Amendment as a Frame: A Content Analysis of Top Blogs (*)
Nikhil Moro, assistant professor at Kennesaw State Unversity, Georgia
Research Panel: Issues in Online Journalism – From High School Coverage to International News
Chair and discussant: Stephen Reese, professor, School of Journalism, UT Austin
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Increased Legitimacy, Fewer Women? Analyzing Editorial Leadership and Gender in Online Journalism (*)(**)
Shayla Thiel, assistant professor at DePaul University in Chicago
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Tinkering with Cyberspace, On-campus punishment for off-campus expression: A High School Case Study (*)
Thomas Terry, doctoral student, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Diffusion Theory in an Internet Environment: Testing Four Key Components (*)
Sonia Huang, doctoral student, School of Journalism, UT Austin
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Who You Are and Where You've Been: Factors Influencing Student Online International News Reading (*)
Tania Cantrell, doctoral student, School of Journalism, UT Austin
Wrap-up discussion session
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Rosental Calmon Alves, professor, Knight Chair in Journalism and UNESCO Chair in Communication, UT Austin
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Gabriela Warkentin de la Mora, director of the Department of Communication and UNESCO Chair in Communication, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico