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Digital Native Media | April 5, 2014
PolicyMic’s Jake Horowitz says millenials care about news
At the 15th International Symposium on Online Journalism, PolicyMic Editor-in-Chief Jake Horowitz said that contrary to common belief, young people are interested in news. According to Horowitz, the real issue is the media not connecting with millenials. “Mainstream media can do a lot more to empower my generation,” Horowitz said. According to Horowitz, millenials want a different … Read More
Transition to Digital | April 5, 2014
Aunohita Mojumdar at ISOJ: online journalism still has value in print news landscape of South Asia
Just as Western journalists speculate about the decay of print news, South Asian news publications like Himal Southasian are exploring the role of online journalism across a growing print news landscape – a role that, according to Himal Southasian Associate Editor Aunohita Mojumdar, comes with the responsibility of creating a space for providing the critical … Read More
Research | April 5, 2014
First research session at ISOJ 2014 highlights contemporary challenges, opportunities for digital journalism
The first official day of activities at the 15th International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ) came to a close with the presentation of six research projects that addressed current opportunities and challenges for digital journalism. The panel, which addressed topics ranging from the impact of native advertising to the archiving of digital news, was … Read More
Keynote | April 4, 2014
Ying Chan addresses censorship in China during her ISOJ keynote speech
During her keynote speech at the 15th International Symposium on Online Journalism, Ying Chan, founder and director of Hong Kong Journalism and Media Studies Center, said that there is an interesting contradiction in China: on one hand the government is cracking down on journalists and social media, and on the other it has spent millions of dollars … Read More
Business Models | April 4, 2014
ISOJ panel explores life beyond the newspaper as a paper only product
What does the future hold for newspapers? Has paper media become obsolete in the face of an increasingly digital print medium? The question of what traditional and community newspapers can do to survive the internet is what was discussed at “Life beyond the newspaper as a paper-only product: Strategies for the newspaper as a hybrid of … Read More
Revenue | April 4, 2014
Dallas Morning News’ Jim Moroney Seeks Answer to Revenue Struggle
Recognizing that the news industry must change their revenue sources, Jim Moroney, CEO of A.H.Belo and publisher and CEO at The Dallas Morning News, continues to search for the answer to this complicated problem. “So what is the right business model? You got audience in both places, one maybe monetizes more than the other,” … Read More
Ethics | April 4, 2014
Journalists discuss media ethics and reporters’ responsibility at ISOJ
At the 15th annual International Symposium of Online Journalism, scholars and journalists discussed issues of ethics in journalism and the changing standards. In the third section of the symposium, Tom Rosentiel led a panel that included four participants from Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. Each presenter was given around 15-20 minutes … Read More
Data Visualization | April 4, 2014
Giving a voice to data: Larry Birnbaum @ ISOJ
Larry Birnbaum, founder and chief scientific advisor at Narrative Science, said their narrative analytic tool makes data real. And during the 15th International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ) in Austin, Texas, he talked about what particular data matters the most in that process. Quill, Narrative Science’s central product, began as a software project at Northwestern … Read More
Keynote | April 4, 2014
Vox Media’s Jim Bankoff @ISOJ: successful digital media depends on talented story tellers with the right tools
During the first keynote speech at the 15th International Symposium on Online Journalism, Vox Media CEO Jim Bankoff listed the guiding principles that have made his company the fastest-growing media publisher in the United States: hire talented people, give them the tools to produce quality stories, and create a multidisciplinary newsroom where hacker culture meets journalism … Read More
Registration | April 3, 2014
Texas Tribune, MediaShift to host mixer for ISOJ kickoff
The Texas Tribune and MediaShift will host on April 3 their annual media mixer to kickoff the 15th International Symposium on Online Journalism. Attendants do not need to be registered for ISOJ to attend but please RSVP here. The mixer will take place in Hole from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in Hole the Wall, … Read More