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Registration | January 17, 2014
Registration is now open for the 15th ISOJ
Registration is now open for the 15th International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ). The symposium will take place on April 4-5, 2014 at the University of Texas at Austin. This year’s speakers will be announced soon. General registration this year will cost $100. Students and faculty will receive a special rate of $40. Click here … Read More
Advertising | January 16, 2014
Hotel Information 2014
April 4 – 5, 2014 The 15th International Symposium on Online Journalism will be hosted at: The Blanton Museum of Art Edgar A. Smith Building 1 University Station D1303 Austin, Texas 78712-0338 For more details and driving instructions please click here. Parking is available close to the venue at the locations listed below: Brazos Garage … Read More
Research | May 28, 2013
Not your typical news audience – anymore
Assistant Professor of Media Culture at the College of Staten Island (CUNY), C.W. Anderson, chaired a panel of academics from universities across the U.S. and Canada discussing the importance of community in the news today at the 14th annual International Symposium on Online Journalism. Four experts presented their findings from research conducted on a particular … Read More
Data Visualization | May 28, 2013
Alberto Cairo and Hannah Fairfield on Data Visualization at ISOJ
There is no better time to be a journalist working with infographics and data visualization, according to The New York Times graphic editor, Hannah Fairfield. Fairfield was a panelist for Data Visualization: Creating a new language to communicate big data at the International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ) in Austin, Texas, on April 20, 2013. … Read More
Ethics | May 28, 2013
Emily Bell’s five guidelines for journalism success
Emily Bell started the second day of the ISOJ conference by setting a guideline of five points for what journalist should do. Her five principles are specialization, transparency, working in public, organizing and collaborating, and becoming faster and better. The co-author of Post-Industrial Journalism: Adapting to the Present, Bell also cited ways in which journalism … Read More
Business Models | May 28, 2013
Roger Black hosts panel in responsive design – Major theme of ISOJ, “Know Your User,” surrounds talk
The 14th International Symposium of Online Journalism, which kicked off Friday, featured Roger Black of Roger Black Studios, Inc. in New York, who chaired a panel focused on responsive design in digital platforms. Black was joined by Trei Bundett of Vox Media, Miranda Mulligan of the Northwestern University Knight Lab, Michael Donohoe of Quartz, and … Read More
Data Visualization | May 28, 2013
Data Visualization unearthing stories’ powerful personas
The audience drew to a somber silence as dots dropped into place during Kim Rees’ presentation titled U.S. Gun Deaths. In one of the International Symposium on Online Journalism’s most innovative panels, data visualization proved to blur the lines between copy and art. Digging down into the data was a similar theme throughout each … Read More
Featured | May 28, 2013
Going Mobile: Challenges and opportunities for journalists and news organizations in the mobile revolution
An astute panel of reporters, media gurus and scholars from around the world agreed that although the mobile revolution can be stressful, journalists are pioneering an unchartered territory of storytelling by thinking forward with the use of mobile devices and applications to produce news. During the second day of the 14th annual International Symposium on … Read More
Citizen Journalism | May 28, 2013
ISOJ panelists discuss behind the scenes in the newsroom
The 14th annual International Symposium on Online Journalism closed its first day with a panel discussing how different news outlets are responding and evolving with advancements in technology. The panel consisted of journalists and academics who have researched news organizations’ attempts and progress in adapting to newsroom changes related to social media, digital media, … Read More
Business Models | May 28, 2013
ISOJ: News industry must drop legacy model, embrace disruption to survive, says Deseret News CEO Clark Gilbert
There is a way for news organizations that have grown and thrived under legacy models to survive – they have to drop it. That, in a nutshell, is the message that Deseret News CEO Clark Gilbert gave during his keynote panel at the first session of the International Symposium on Online Journalism on Friday April 19. Gilbert, a former … Read More