International Symposium on Online Journalism
A program of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin
Advertising | February 19, 2010
Preparations for the 11th annual International Symposium on Online Journalism are in full swing, and in just two short months, journalists, academics and the like will descend on Austin to discuss the ever-changing landscape of journalism in all its forms. For veterans of the symposium, one of the first things you’ll notice is that the … Read More
Engagement | April 18, 2009
Ted Kian presented his research at the 10th International Symposium on Online Journalism on how internet news coverage might create different frames for gender-related sports news. He said traditional sports news coverage frames women athletes as sex objects, trivializes their seriousness, and gives men’s sports more coverage than women’s sports. The internet presents an opportunity … Read More
Citizen Journalism | April 18, 2009
How is citizen journalism understood? How does new technology help us understand our audience? These are questions Chris Anderson posed to the audience at the beginning of his panel during the 10th International Symposium on Online Journalism. Anderson looked at the relationship between a quantifiable audience (which can be measured in numbers, visits and clicks) … Read More
Research | April 18, 2009
Edith Manosevitch, a researcher from the Kettering Foundation, discussed her research paper “Readers’ Comments to Online Editorials as a Space of Public Deliberation.” She touched on the research that has been done before on UGC and the potential of online media. But she noted that there a scarcity of work on analysis of the content: … Read More
Research | April 18, 2009
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dong Han presented his research paper “State Policy and News Websites in China” during the 10th International Symposium on Online Journalism. “They want to boost internet for the economy but at the same time control content,” he said. The core of the state regulation is licensing, or who … Read More
Citizen Journalism | April 18, 2009
The second panel of Saturday’s ISOJ covered “Citizen Journalism, User-Generated Content and Crowdsourcing: Who is Contributing to the Conversation and Why?” Academics from all over the United States and the world contributed information they had gathered on user interaction and how it affects journalism. User-generated content, or UGC, has been an interesting issue for online journalism.Cindy … Read More
Business Models | April 18, 2009
Is newsroom integration working? Not for VG online Editor-in-Chief Torry Pedersen it isn’t. (VG online is Norway’s most profitable and most read news site) Should it work? According to Pederson, no again. Pedersen offered some very interesting percentages to back up his argument. Out of the 4.8 people in Norway, newspapers reach 52 percent of … Read More
Business Models | April 18, 2009
UT journalism professor and Knight Chair Rosental Alves started by showing a video of himself from the first International Symposium on Online Journalism, sans beard, and made sure the mood was light. “It was a time that I was trying to let people know that my children weren’t my grandchildren, so I took off the … Read More
Advertising | April 17, 2009
Online news site may need to work more closely with advertisers in order to flourish in the current economic climate. Katie King, creative and development editor of MSN UK, explained some of the new advertising strategies her company is testing. She said that in the UK, MSN remains the most popular online portal. Despite the … Read More
Business Models | April 17, 2009
Steve Outing, columnist for Editor & Publisher, told a packed room of media professionals and students Friday that the news industry needs to think outside the box. Outing kicked off the first panel at the 10th International Symposium on Online Journalism with a presentation called “Diverse Business Models in Online Journalism: Are we trying hard … Read More