Opening Session

• Lorraine Branham, director, School of Journalism, University of Texas at Austin

• Rosental Calmon Alves, professor & Knight Chair in Journalism, University of Texas at Austin

First panel: Online Journalism in Asia, Europe and Latin America – What is different and how does it compare with the U.S.?

Moderator and discussant: Lorraine Branham, director, School of Journalism, UT Austin

• Manuel Gago, professor, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

• Ari Heinonen, professor of New Media Journalism, University of Tampere, Finland

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• Guillermo Franco, editor, El Tiempo.com, Colombia

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• Makoto Ota, Staff Writer, The Yomiuri Shimbun (www.yomiuri.co.jp)Japan

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Second panel: Online News financial independence – Has the business model come of age?

Moderator: Nancy Regent, vice-president/managingeditor, Hoovers.com

• Peter Zollman, founding principal, Classified Intelligence and Advanced Media Group

• John Granatino, vice president of news and operations, Belo Interactive

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• William Grueskin, managing editor, The Wall Street Journal Online

Digital Newspapers: Where do we go from here?

• Keynote speaker: Roger Fidler, director, Institute for Cyberinformation, and professor, Journalism and Mass Communication, Kent State University

Third panel: Online news presentation- Have we already developed the language for this genre of Journalism?

Moderator and presenter: Leah Gentry, managing director, Finberg-Gentry/The Digital Futurist Consultancy, and Adjunct Professor, USC Annenberg School of Journalism

• Gary Kebbel, news director, America Online

• Michael Silberman, MSNBC.com Managing Editor East Coast

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• Naka Nathaniel, NYTimes.com Multimedia Editor

Fourth panel: Online News status – Has it become indispensable?

Moderator and presenter: Charlotte-Anne Lucas, content director, MySanAntonio.com

• Doug Feaver, executive editor of WashingtonPost.com, and president of Online News Association

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• Steve Klein, coordinator of the electronic journalism program, George Mason University

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• Steve Outing, Senior Editor Poynter Institute and columnist, Editor & Publisher magazine

First panel: Research on Online Journalism

Moderator and presenter: Paula Poindexter, associate professor, School of Journalism, UT Austin

• Guillermo Franco, editor, ElTiempo.com, Bogotá, Colombia

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• Steve Outing, Senior Editor Poynter Institute and columnist, Editor & Publisher magazine

• Rosental Alves and Amy Schmitz Weiss, School of Journalism, UT Austin

Research Panel: The State of Blog Journalism

Moderator and discussant: Mark Tremayne, assistant-professor, School of Journalism, UT Austin

• Blog, blog, blog: web log learning experience in journalism classes

  Eric M. Wiltse, senior lecturer, Department of Journalism, University of Wyoming

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• When the Audience is the Producer: the art of the collaborative weblog

  Lou Rutigliano, graduate student, School of Journalism, UT Austin

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• Blogging the Story

  Sue Robinson, graduate student, Temple University

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• Weblogs and the Search for User-Driven Ethical Models

  J. Richard Stevens, graduate student, School of Journalism, UT Austin

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• Citizens or Journalists? Legal and ethical rules governing journalists' personal Web logs

  Kathleen K. Olson, assistant professor, Lehigh University

Keynote: New Frontiers for Online News: Wireless, Knowledge Management, the Information Society, and More

• Keynote speaker: Madanmohan Rao, consultant/author; editor, "The Asia-Pacific Internet Handbook" based in Bangalore, India

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Research Panel: Reconsidering Journalism and its Effects on a Wired World

Moderator and discussant: Stephen D. Reese, professor, School of Journalism, UT Austin

• You've got News: a permission-marketing model using sponsored electronic newsletters

  Anca C. Micu (graduate student) and Clyde H. Bentley (associate professor), University of Missouri-Columbia

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• Wikipedia as Participatory Journalism: Reliable Sources?

  Andrew Lih, assistant professor, Hong Kong University

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• Travelling without moving: Foreign news and boundary-crossing in Cyberspace

  Jeremy Edwards, graduate student, UT Austin

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• Redefining Multimedia Toward a More Packaged Journalism Online

  Amy Zerba, graduate student, UT Austin

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• Examining the Media Agenda: a comparison of the way traditional and online media presented the 2000 and 2004 presidential primaries

  Donica Mensing, assistant professor, University of Nevada-Reno

Closing session

• Rosental Calmon Alves, professor, Knight Chair in Journalism and UNESCO Chair in Communication, UT Austin