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Blogs | April 16, 2010
Joshua Braun: In His Own Words
Joshua Braun is a self-proclaimed dorky brainiac. But what are labels and tags when it comes to one of the brightest journalism scholars today? Braun, a graduate student at Cornell University, will be representing two papers at this year’s symposium. The first, Models of Restraint: The Adoption of Blogging Software by the U.S. Broadcast News … Read More
Q&A | April 15, 2010
Joseph Vavrus: In His Own Words
All of the papers and panels at this year’s ISOJ will be completely and unequivocally great, but there’s a lot more that goes into planning the event behind the scenes. Joseph Vavrus is a crucial member of that planning team. A graduate research assistant with the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, he assisted with … Read More
Q&A | April 13, 2010
Angela M. Lee: In Her Own Words
The talk of new business models and methods of dissemination for news is everywhere, but the oft-forgotten reality is as innovative and helpful as new technologies and business strategies may be, it is still the audience that really defines what will and will not work. After all, it’s the audience that’s reading the news. That’s … Read More
Engagement | April 9, 2010
The buzz: posts from the ISOJ Twitter list
The best thing about the 11th ISOJ Twitter list is it allows you to get a sense for the event’s attendees that aren’t necessarily related directly to the particular panels they’ll be participating in or papers they’ll be presenting. Similar to last week’s story highlighting some of the buzz leading up to the symposium, let’s do … Read More
Q&A | April 8, 2010
Ethan Zuckerman: In His Own Words
Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School and the co-founder of Global Voices Online, Zuckerman is a fantastic mixture of professional and academic, intellectual and laborer. He’s thinking about the issues, and then writing about them.But don’t just believe me. Here is Ethan Zuckerman, in his own words. ———- Journalism: it’s not … Read More
Nonprofit journalism | April 7, 2010
Investing in the news: the nonprofit model
One of the most intriguing panels at the 2010 International Symposium on Online Journalism will be undoubtedly be the panel scheduled for 11:15 a.m. on Saturday, titled Nonprofit Journalism: Models of non-commercial journalism online and their sustainability challenge. As media organizations continue to look for new ways to make money, much talk has centered around the … Read More
Q&A | April 5, 2010
Amanda Ash: In Her Own Words
We have already heard from Alfred Hermida about the paper he will be presenting at the symposium titled Wikifying the CBC: Reimagining the remit of public service media, a paper the exams the burgeoning wiki page for the Canadian music scene, but what about his partner in crime? Amanda Ash is a Master’s student in … Read More
Social Media | March 29, 2010
The buzz: Preparing for ISOJ on Twitter
Last week, I posted a link to the 2010 ISOJ Twitter list as a way to keep up with the major players attending the event this year. It currently only has eight subscribers, so get on the ball and start following it!Along those same lines, here’s a recap of some of the buzz circulating around … Read More
Social Media | March 24, 2010
The symposium Twitter list
The concept of Twitter lists is one that gained a great deal of attention upon first release, but quickly fell to the wayside as no one found a great way to use the idea. There are still countless numbers of lists in existence today, though, and now there’s a new one. The International Symposium on … Read More
Business Models | March 22, 2010
Business model ballyhoo: the micropayment idea
The notion of a business model for online journalism, one that is both reasonable and money-making, is a topic that gets tossed around in some form or another every year at the International Symposium on Online Journalism. But now, perhaps more than ever, the issue is at its most relevant, with The New York TImes … Read More