Opening Session
Opening Session
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                                        Rosental Calmon Alves, ISOJ founder and chair, professor at the School of Journalism, University of Texas at Austin 
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                                        Glenn Frankel, director, School of Journalism, University of Texas at Austin 
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                                        Amy Schmitz Weiss, assistant professor, San Diego State University – Symposium Research Chair 
Creating the Future of News: 10 Questions to Consider
Chair: George Lewis, NBC News
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                                        Keynote Speaker: Richard Gingras, head of news products, Google 
From desk(lap)top computers to tablets and smartphones: How are journalists responding to the mobile revolution?
Chair: Joshua Benton, director, Nieman Journalism Lab, Harvard University
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                                        Pedro Doria, digital platforms editor, O Globo newspaper, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 
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                                        Harry Dugmore, professor, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa 
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                                        Blake Eskin, former web editor, New Yorker magazine 
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                                        Louis Gump, vice president, CNN Mobile 
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                                        JV Rufino, head of Inquirer Mobile and Books, Inquirer Group, Manila, Philippines 
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                                        Whurley (William Hurley), co-founder Chaotic Moon, GM Chaotic Moon Labs 
Research Panel: Examining the journalist′s toolbox: Practices, routines and more
Chair: Tom Johnson, professor, School of Journalism, University of Texas at Austin
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                                            #Memstorm: Twitter as a community-driven breaking news reporting tool Carrie Brown, University of Memphis 
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                                            WellCommons.com: Breaking down the barriers between journalists and the community Jonathan Groves, Drury University 
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                                            African citizen journalists' ethics and the emerging networked public sphere Bruce Mutsvairo, Simon Columbus, and Iris Leijendekker Amsterdam University College (The Netherlands) 
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                                            Social reading and privacy norms: The aesthetic of simplicity, online reading and interface confusion J. Richard Stevens, University of Colorado at Boulder 
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                                            ″Best practice″ in the journalism ethics frame: a comparative study Lawrie Zion, La Trobe University (Australia) 
Becoming The Economist of Metro Newspapers and the Pursuit of the Tablet Audience
Chair: Glenn Frankel, director, School of Journalism, UT Austin
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                                        Keynote speaker: Jim Moroney, publisher & CEO, Dallas Morning News, and chairman of the board, Newspapers Association of America 
Innovation and entrepreneurialism: Are journalists and news organizations learning from tech startups?
Chair and presenter: Mark Briggs, author of Entrepreneurial Journalism and director of Digital Media at KING 5, Seattle
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                                        Gilberto Dimenstein, founder and CEO, Catraca Livre, São Paulo, Brazil 
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                                        Debra Galant, founder and editor-in-chief, Baristanet 
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                                        Retha Hill, director, New Media Innovation Lab, Arizona State University 
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                                        Ben Ilfeld, founder and COO, Sacramento Press 
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                                        John White, deputy editor for online, Winnipeg Free Press, Canada 
Research Panel: Cases of news innovation and entrepreneurship
Chair: Amy Schmitz Weiss, assistant professor, San Diego State University (Symposium research chair)
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                                            Survival is success: an analysis of online journalism start-ups in France, Germany, and Italy Nicola Bruno, Effecinque, and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, University of Oxford (United Kingdom) 
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                                            From journalism students to local news entrepreneurs: A case study of technically media Mark Berkey-Gerard, Rowan University 
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                                            Yes, iTouch: a case study of the first Brazilian news media for tablets Soraia Herrador Costa Lima, Centro Universitário Estácio Radial de São Paulo and Senac (Brazil) 
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                                            Is this the future of online news? An examination of Samoa Topix Linda Jean Kenix and Christine Daviault, University of Canterbury (New Zealand) 
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                                            Visuality of tablet newspapers and magazines compared to their print and web editions Anssi Männistö, University of Tampere (Finland) 
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                                            Mapping emerging news networks: A case study of the San Francisco Bay area Donica Mensing, University of Nevada, and *co-authors 
Online Journalism Startups Win With The Network Effect
Chair: Dan Gillmor, founding director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University
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                                        Keynote speaker: Bob Metcalfe, professor of Innovation and Murchison Fellow of Free Enterprise, University of Texas at Austin Cockrell School of Engineering 
The New Narrative: How data is changing the way we tell stories online
Chair and presenter: Aron Pilhofer, interactive news editor, The New York Times
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                                        Brian Boyer, news applications editor, Chicago Tribune Media Group 
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                                        Alberto Cairo, lecturer in visual journalism, University of Miami 
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                                        Alastair Dant, lead interactive technologist at Guardian News & Media, London, UK 
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                                        Angelica Peralta Ramos, multimedia development manager, La Nación, Buenos Aires, Argentina 
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                                        Ben Welsh, database producer, Los Angeles Times 
Research Panel: New approaches in engaging with the news community
Chair: Gabriela Warkentin, professor, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City
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                                            Audience preference and editorial judgment: a study of time-lagged influence in online news Angela M. Lee, University of Texas at Austin, and Seth C. Lewis, University of Minnesota 
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                                            Sourcing the Arab Spring: A case study of Andy Carvin′s sources during the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions Alfred Hermida, University of British Columbia (Canada) and *co-authors 
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                                            Who knows best? Attitudes and perceptions of citizen journalism and the news through the lens of creators and consumers Avery Holton, Mark Coddington, and Homero Gil de Zuniga, University of Texas at Austin 
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                                            Asserting ″truth″ in political debates: A study of partisan Twitter users Emily T. Metzgar and Hans P. Ibold, Indiana University 
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                                            Content Curation: a new form of gatewatching for social media? Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva, Vittoria Sacco, and Marco Giardina, University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland) 
Rethinking Newsrooms-Why the Intersection of Technology and Content is our next challenge
Chair: Robert Quigley, senior lecturer, School of Journalism, University of Texas at Austin
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                                        Keynote speaker: Raju Narisetti, managing editor, Wall Street Journal Digital Network 
From SEO to SMO: The increasing impact of social media on journalism
Chair: Dan Gillmor, founding director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University
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                                        Carmen Cano, digital managing editor, The Dallas Morning News 
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                                        Chip Cutter, content editor, LinkedIn 
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                                        Borja Echevarria, deputy editor, El Pais, Spain 
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                                        Jen Lee Reeves, interactive director of KOMU-TV and associate professor at the Missouri School of Journalism 
Research Panel: Measuring today′s news consumption
Chair: Regina Lawrence, professor, School of Journalism, University of Texas at Austin
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                                            Through the lens: Visual framing of the Japan tsunami in U.S., British, and Chinese online media Rosellen Downey, Erika Johnson, and Bailey Brewer, University of Missouri 
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                                            Are digital natives dropping print newspapers? A national survey of college newspaper advisers Hsiang Iris Chyi, University of Texas at Austin 
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                                            Theorizing Online News Consumption: A structural model linking preference, use, and paying intent Hsiang Iris Chyi and Angela M. Lee, University of Texas at Austin 
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                                            Verbal and visual national news framing of Dilma Rousseff and her successful bid as Brazil′s first female president Tania Cantrell Rosas-Moreno, Loyola University (Maryland) 
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                                            Animation, documentary or interactive gaming? Exploring communicative aspects of environmental messaging online Astrid Gynnild, University of Bergen (Norway) and Paul C. Adams, University of Texas at Austin 
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                                            More than shovelware: A call for layered stories for online journalism Yanjun Zhao, Cameron University 
