The Growth and Future of Online Journalism

 Professor Rosental Alves talks about how online journalism is growing, and speculates about the future of the expanding medium of the Internet in a pre-International Symposium on Online Journalism interview.  Read More

Jarvis Stresses Cooperation Among Media

Jeff Jarvis started the first day of the International Symposium on Online Journalism with a keynote speech emphasizing cooperation among competitors in the media, suggesting such radical ideas as sending readers to other papers and nixing bylines, newsrooms and journalists’ egos. It’s understandable that Jarvis is a self-proclaimed “cock-eyed optimist” when it comes to the future …  Read More

It’s All About Interacting: Perspectives from Abroad on Online Journalism

Readers want interaction, no matter where they live.  Ismael Nafria, the Content Deputy Director of Prisacom/El.Pais.com from Spain knows his readers. So did the other international panel of speakers from France, Brazil, and Colombia, who spoke at the 8th International Symposium on Online Journalism held at The University of Texas at Austin. As a journalist …  Read More

Blogging Begins with the Users and the Community

The latest phenomenon in citizen journalism, the blog, took full center in the panel that included the Online News Editor of The Houston Chronicle, Dean Betz. Betz is best known for his work with online participation in the blog section of the Houston Chronicle website.  Working previously for another online blog pool, he edited and …  Read More

Online Journalism Symposium Starts Friday

AUSTIN, Texas — More than 250 people have registered for the Eighth International Symposium on Online Journalism, which takes place Friday and Saturday, March 30-31, at the University of Texas at Austin. Editors, news executives and media scholars from North America, South America, Europe, and Africa, will participate in 10 panel discussions dealing with issues …  Read More

Online Journalism Gains Momentum

The Internet will be the central medium in journalism for the next generation, according to an online journalism symposium. About 100 people gathered from all over the world at the 7th International Symposium on Online Journalism in Austin from April 7-8. Rosental Calmon Alves, a journalism professor at the University of Texas, has hosted this …  Read More

Podcasting: the New Salvation for Online Journalism?

If print newsrooms are to survive, their managers must be open to innovation and creativity,  and podcasting can assist them, two Syracuse University students said at the 7th International Symposium on Online Journalism. Podcasting is the distribution of audio or video files, such as radio programs or music videos, over the Internet. It is a …  Read More

A New Digital Divide: Web 2.0 Leaves Society Behind

As the Web brings more community journalism and interactivity onto the Web, society leaves entire groups of citizens on the outside. Web 2.0 can only be utilized by those citizens who have the tools and know-how. “The evacuees in Austin were forced to learn on the fly how to use these sorts of tools,” said …  Read More