International Symposium on Online Journalism
A program of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin
Citizen Journalism | April 20, 2004
Wiki wiki — Hawaiian for “quick” — is at the root of Wikipedia, a encyclopedia website where any page can be edited by users with the simple click of an “edit this page” button. Andrew Lih, assistant professor at Hong Kong University, compared the different levels of participation between web sites, web logs and “wikis” … Read More
Featured | April 17, 2004
“Multimedia” is a dynamic form of journalism that engages the audience and uses interactivity to help tell a story, a UT doctoral student presenter said Saturday during the fifth annual International Symposium on Online Journalism. Multimedia’s integration of more than one medium has allowed for an extension of reporting that has been great for young … Read More
Blogs | April 17, 2004
The emerging practice of blogging raises new questions about the nature of journalism and the role of the journalist, researchers said in a panel discussion Saturday at the fifth annual International Symposium on Online Journalism. “A cross between a column, a news story and a journal, the journalist’s weblog (or J- blog) has started to … Read More
International | April 17, 2004
Online newspaper headlines are doing a poor job of presenting information to readers, said the editor of the online edition of the leading Colombian newspaper. “If you have the attention of the reader, you need to present new information,” said Guillermo Franco, editor of ElTiempo.com, based in Bogota, Colombia. “There is a lot of information … Read More
Research | April 17, 2004
Research in online journalism seems to provide just as many questions as it does answers, said participants in a panel on online journalism research. In the studies presented for the panel, journalists and academics looked at ways for online journalism to improve in terms of content, design and resources. “We have to experiment,” said Guillermo … Read More
Engagement | April 17, 2004
A new stage of a study that tracks the eyes of people using news Web sites will provide important insight into the patterns of online viewership, a senior editor at the Poynter Institute said Saturday. “With the Eyetrack III we can track the online news consumer’s behavior in the age of multimedia,” said Steve Outing, … Read More
Digital Divide | April 16, 2004
While online news media may not yet be completely indispensable to all, their impact thus far is hard to ignore, said speakers on a panel debating the indispensability of online media during the 5th International Symposium on Online Journalism on Friday. “It may not be indispensable at the end of the day, but it darn … Read More
Registration | April 12, 2004
A worldwide gathering of distinguished online journalists and multimedia scholars will debate emerging trends in the electronic media industry at the fifth International Symposium on Online Journalism April 16 and 17 at the University of Texas at Austin School of Journalism. The event, organized and sponsored by the Knight Chair in Journalism, will be webcast … Read More
Engagement | April 16, 2004
For Charlotte-Anne Lucas, content director of MySanAntonio.com, the events of Sept. 11 proved to her that online journalism had become indispensable. At the time, she was managing editor at The Street.com, a financial news and commentary website. “We had 800,000 users before 9-11,” she said during the fifth annual International Symposium on Online Journalism. “The … Read More
Engagement | April 16, 2004
If indispensable is defined as so easy to access that you cannot avoid it, online news has not become indispensable in the current American society, a university online journalism instructor said Friday during the fifth annual International Symposium on Online Journalism. “When I walk on campus at George Mason University, it seems every student is … Read More