International Symposium on Online Journalism
A program of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin
Ethics | April 21, 2012
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 Through data analysis of three online papers — The New York Times, the New York Post, and the New York Daily News — Lee and Lewis found … Read More
Data Visualization | April 21, 2012
Aron Pilhofer, interactive news editor, The New York Times “I want to change how we think about data,” Aron Pilhofer said. In an industry that is constantly changing, Pilhofer believes that data-driven journalism is paving the way for more approaches in interactive storytelling. With interactive forums like The Obameter, Politics Verbatim and The New York … Read More
Advertising | April 21, 2012
At the second day of ISOJ, keynote speaker Raju Narisetti, managing editor for The Wall Street Journal Digital Network, presented us all with a challenge. But this challenge, according to Narisetti, isn’t about the hubbub over transferring print to an online platform. “If you haven’t done it now, you’re pretty much doomed,” Narisetti said. So … Read More
Multimedia | May 2, 2008
MTV News Supervising Producer Liz Nord talks about Multimedia and Interactivity at the 9th International Symposium on Online Journalism at The University of Texas at Austin. Nord explains MTV’s efforts to engage young people with the upcoming presidential election by innovating the 2008 MTV Choose or Lose campaign. With the explosion of new media tools, … Read More
Distribution | April 5, 2008
Games can be the key to the future of journalism, said the four panelists at a Saturday morning panel on news games at the International Symposium on Online Journalism. Howard Finberg, the executive director of the Poynter Institute’s NewsU.org, said that games help audiences better retain the information presented. “A retention rate of 20 percent … Read More
Multimedia | April 5, 2008
From a copyeditor at the Chicago Tribune to the executive director of NewsU.org, Howard Finberg took a “long and tricky path.” Sitting down in a courtyard of the ACES after he spoke as a part of the News Games panel at the ninth annual International Symposium on Online Journalism, Finberg explained the intricacies of this … Read More
Engagement | April 5, 2008
Consumers of online news sites are looking for more than words in their news. At least, that was the verdict in the second afternoon session of the International Symposium on Online Journalism, “Multimedia and Interactivity.” Users are looking for things to do while online, which can include audio, slideshows, video, and interactive information graphics that … Read More
Multimedia | March 31, 2007
Brian Storm from MediaStorm, Jorge Sanhueza-Lyon from the Statesman.com and Andrew DiVigal from the NYTimes.com discuss the roll of multimedia narrative storytelling for the Web. Read More
Featured | April 8, 2006
Video is merging with animation, audio, and text to create the multimedia packages that are becoming increasingly familiar – and expected – at leading journalism Web sites. Media Web sites are looking less like their original printed or television broadcast products and developing their own styles, the panel at the 7th International Symposium on Online … Read More
Multimedia | April 8, 2006
Multimedia editors and news producers converged during the 7th International Symposium on Online Journalism at the University of Texas’ College of Communication Friday to convey one unified message – incorporating interactive media in a more innovative fashion. “This is the essence of journalism. We can be the eyes and ears for people who can’t be somewhere,” Jen … Read More