19th International Symposium on Online Journalism

A program of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at The University of Texas at Austin

Moody College of Communication’s School of Journalism

April 13-14, 2018

Activities will take place at UT Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art’s auditorium at the Smith Building, MLK Blvd. & Congress Ave.

Thanks to the support of Knight Foundation, Google, Facebook, Open Society Foundations, Dallas Morning News and Univision News.

PRE-ISOJ EVENTS:

Knight Foundation Demo Day: Prototypes to Battle Misinformation and Build Trust

This is a special event for ISOJ participants that will feature talks from the winners of a Knight Prototype Fund Challenge that distributed $1 million for the development of 20 projects to improve the flow of accurate information.

Thursday, April 12: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Venue: Belo Center for New Media (300 W. Dean Keeton, Austin TX 78712)

Registration for this event is full.

ISOJ Welcome Happy Hour Reception
Sponsored by JSK Journalism Fellowships at Stanford University

Thursday, April 12: 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Venue: The Local Pub and Patio (2610 Guadalupe St, Austin TX 78705)

RSVP here for Thursday’s Happy Hour

ISOJ SCHEDULE:

FRIDAY, APRIL 13

7:30–8:30 a.m. — Registration and breakfast

8:30–8:45 a.m. — Opening Session

Rosental Calmon Alves, ISOJ founder and chair, professor at the School of Journalism, University of Texas at Austin
Jay Bernhardt, dean, Moody College of Communication, University of Texas at Austin
Amy Schmitz Weiss, ISOJ research chair, associate professor at San Diego State University

8:45–10:15 a.m. — KEYNOTE PANEL: Newspapers in a post-advertising era

Chair and presenter: Jim Moroney, chairman, president and CEO of the A. H. Belo Corporation (publisher of The Dallas Morning News)

Jim Friedlich, CEO and executive director, Lenfest Institute for Journalism
Sara Glines, president and publisher, The News & Observer, and McClatchy regional publisher for the Carolinas
David Perpich, GM & president, Wirecutter (a New York Times’ product recommendation service), The New York Times Executive Committee
Earl Wilkinson, executive director and CEO, INMA (International News Media Association)

10:15-10:30 a.m. — Coffee Break

10:30–12:00 p.m. — REVENUE: E-commerce, events, membership and the search for new revenue streams

Chair: Janine Warner, Co-founder and Executive Director, SembraMedia; ICFJ Knight Fellow, Latin America

Alex Clark, founder and CEO, Press Patron (New Zealand)
April Hinkle, chief revenue officer, Texas Tribune
Christina Shih, chief operations officer, News Revenue Hub
Rob Wijnberg, editor-in-chief and founder, De Correspondent (Netherlands) and The Correspondent (U.S.)

12:00–1:45 p.m. — Lunch Break at AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center

12:10—1:35 p.m. — Google Tools for Journalists Workshops in English and Spanish— offered by News Lab at Google during ISOJ lunch break

Lunch will be served during the workshops, but seats are limited and registration is required. Both workshops will be held simultaneously in separate rooms adjacent to the main auditorium.

Click here to register for Google Tools for Journalists in English with

Nicholas Whitaker, Training and Development Manager, Google News Lab

Click here to register for Herramientas de Google para periodistas en español con

Marco Túlio Pires, News Lab Lead for Brazil & Latin America, Google News Lab
Jorge Luis Sierra, Trainer and Consultant, Society of Professional Journalists

1:45–2:45 p.m. — TRUST: Tools to Improve the Flow of Accurate Information

Chair: Jennifer Preston, vice president of journalism, Knight Foundation

Lisa Fazio, assistant professor, Vanderbilt University, CrossCheck
Frédéric Filloux, creator, Deepnews.ai
Darryl Holliday, editorial director and co-founder, City Bureau
Joan Donovan, media manipulation/platform accountability research lead, Data & Society
Cameron Hickey, producer, PBS NewsHour

2:45–3:45 p.m. — RESEARCH PANEL: Future Vision: Conceptualizing community, seeking solutions and minding metrics

Chair: Amy Schmitz Weiss, ISOJ research chair, associate professor at San Diego State University

Summer Harlow, University of Houston, and Monica Chadha, Arizona State University
- Looking for Community in Community News: An Examination of Public-spirited Content in Online Local News Sites
Kyser Lough, University of Texas at Austin, and Karen McIntyre, Virginia Commonwealth University
- Journalists’ Perceptions of Solutions Journalism and Its Place in the Field
Kelsey N. Whipple and Jeremy L. Shermak, University of Texas at Austin
- Quality, Quantity and Policy: How Newspaper Journalists Use Digital Metrics to Evaluate Their Roles and Their Papers’ Strategies

3:45-4:00 p.m. — Coffee Break

4:00–4:45 p.m. — KEYNOTE: Meredith Artley

Chair: Kathleen McElroy, associate director, Moody College of Communication Journalism School at UT Austin

Meredith Artley, senior vice president and editor-in-chief, CNN Digital Worldwide

4:45–6:00 p.m. — VIDEO: Cracking the code for successful video online

Chair and presenter: Trei Brundrett, chief operating officer, Vox Media

Selymar Colón, managing editor/senior director, digital news, Univision
Kristie Gonzales, president and general manager, KVUE-TV, Austin
Imaeyen Ibanga, senior video producer and manager, AJ+
Mindy Massucci, head of content, TicToc by Bloomberg
Yusuf Omar, co-founder, Hashtag Our Stories (South Africa/UK)

6:15-7:45 p.m. — ISOJ Reception
Sponsored by Knight Foundation and Facebook

Venue: Rapoport Atrium of the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin

Please RSVP here for Friday’s reception

SATURDAY, APRIL 14

8—9 a.m. — Registration and breakfast

8—8:50 a.m. — Research breakfast: Trends in online journalism research

Chair: Seth Lewis, Shirley Papé Chair in Emerging Media, University of Oregon

Mark Coddington, assistant professor, Washington and Lee University
Lea Hellmueller, assistant professor, University of Houston
Sue Robinson, Helen Franklin Firstbrook Professor of Journalism, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Magdalena Saldaña, assistant professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Registration for this event is full.

9—9:45 a.m. — KEYNOTE: Ben Smith

Chair: Evan Smith, CEO and co-founder, Texas Tribune

Ben Smith, editor-in-chief, Buzzfeed

9:45–11:00 a.m. — WHAT’S NEXT: Artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, augmented reality and other tech trends that will impact journalism

Chair and presenter: Mia Tramz, managing editor, LIFE VR, Meredith (formerly Time Inc)

Deborah Basckin, Producer, NBC Left Field
Jarrod Dicker, CEO, Po.et
Jeremy Merrill, news apps developer, ProPublica
Zach Seward, chief product officer and executive editor, Quartz

11:00–11:15 a.m. — Coffee Break

11:15–12:30 p.m. — GLOBAL ROUNDUP: How news organizations are using satire online around the world

Chair: María Teresa Ronderos, director, Program on Independent Journalism, Open Society Foundations

Carlos Cortés, creator, La Mesa de Centro (Colombia)
Haris Dedović, executive director, Šatro (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Samm Farai Monro (aka Comrade Fatso), creative director, Magamba TV (Zimbabwe)
Marianna Grigoryan, co-founder/president, Umbrella Journalists’ International Network NGO (Armenia)
King Muriuki, producer, The XYZ Show, Buni Media (Kenya)
Vahe Nersesian, cartoonist and co-founder, Medialab.am (Armenia)
Juan Andrés Ravell, co-founder, El Chigüire Bipolar (Venezuela)
Isam Uraiqat, editor, Alhudood (Jordan)

12:30–1:45 p.m. — Lunch Break at AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center

12:40—1:40 p.m. — Facebook Journalism Project workshop: Navigating News Feed changes with CrowdTangle

Dorrine Mendoza, news partnerships, Facebook
Chris Miles, strategy manager, CrowdTangle

Venue: Capitol Room (adjacent to ISOJ’s main auditorium)

Lunch will be served during the workshop.

Registration for this event is closed.

1:45–2:30 p.m. — KEYNOTE: A conversation with Marty Baron

Chair: Joshua Benton, director, Nieman Lab at Harvard

Marty Baron, executive editor, The Washington Post

2:30–3:45 p.m. — NEWSLETTERS: How email, an almost 50-year-old technology, has become the next big thing for news organizations

Chair and presenter: Sara Fischer, media reporter, Axios

Elisabeth Goodridge, editorial director, newsletters and messaging, New York Times
Mónica Guzmán, co-founder and director, Evergrey
Dheerja Kaur, head of product and design, theSkimm
Fernando Rodrigues, founder and editor, Drive Premium/Poder360 (Brazil)

3:45–4:00 p.m. — Coffee Break

4:00–5:00 p.m. — RESEARCH PANEL: Cultural change: Telling stories, shaping identity and normalizing precarity

Chair: Jane B. Singer, professor, City, University of London (UK) and guest editor, #ISOJ Journal

Jan Boesman and Irene Costera Meijer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
- “Don’t read me the news, tell me the story”: How news makers and storytellers negotiate journalism’s boundaries when preparing and presenting news stories
Jonathan Groves, Drury University, and Carrie Brown, CUNY
- Changing “habits of thought”: An examination of eight years of digital evolution at the Christian Science Monitor
Henrik Örnebring, Karlstad University, Sweden
- Journalists Thinking about Precarity: Making Sense of the ‘New Normal’

5:00-6:00 p.m. — AUDIO: From podcasts to Alexa, Hey Google and Siri, journalism is raising the voice

Chair: Kathleen Kingsbury, deputy editorial page editor, The New York Times

Tamar Charney, managing editor at NPR One, NPR
Anne Li, interactive audio producer, Washington Post
Caitlin Thompson, U.S. director of content, Acast (Sweden)
Jillian Weinberger, senior producer for audio, Vox Media and Vox.com

POST-ISOJ EVENTS:

11th Iberian American Colloquium on Digital Journalism

Traditional seminar offered to ISOJ attendees from Latin America, Spain and Portugal.

This year, the Colloquium is sponsored by Google News Lab

Sunday, April 15: 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Venue: Belo Center for New Media, Moody College of Communication.

Click here to register.

Tiny Texas Podcasting Fest

Podcast listeners, creators and fans of all types are invited to join a free all-day workshop dedicated to exploring, appreciating and learning about audio storytelling. Sponsored by the Dallas Morning News Endowment for Journalism Innovation at the University of Texas school of Journalism.

Sunday, April 15: 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.