International Symposium on Online Journalism
A program of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin
Blogs | April 5, 2008
The BBC, with its paternalistic approach to its audience, may slowly be wisening up to the usefulness of blogging, Alfred Hermida said. Hermida was the first speaker in the presentation titled “Citizen Producers, Bloggers, and the Evolution of Journalism,” during the 9th International Symposium on Online Journalism. “I managed to kick the habit after 16 … Read More
Q&A | April 5, 2008
Ramón Salaverria 2-part interview at the International Symposium of Online Journalism at The University of Texas at Austin. The first part is an excerpt of Salaverria’s comments on the Online Symposium in Spanish. Second part is an excerpt of Salaverria’s comments on the importance of Online Journalism in English. Read More
Q&A | April 5, 2008
Saturday’s keynote speaker Ramón Salaverria, Professor and Vice Chair, School of Communication, Navarra University, Spain, discusses the true definition of Media Convergence during the 9th International Symposium on Online Journalism. Read More
Blogs | April 5, 2008
Georgia Popplewell, managing director of GlobalVoicesOnline.org, pointed to her laptop inside of an orange messenger bag, calling it her office. Trinidad native Popplewell is the only full-time staff member for the Global Voices Online, an international project that sorts through blogs around the world, giving them context and linking to the original blog posts. The … Read More
Transition to Digital | April 5, 2008
The Three Musketeers’ motto “All for one and one for all” does not work for the news media in the digital age, keynote speaker Ramón Salaverria said Saturday during the 9th International Symposium on Online Journalism. “All media has converged into the computer, and even these computers are getting smaller, so we’re getting more portable,” … Read More
Research | April 5, 2008
Rosental Alves wasn’t kidding when he said this was truly an international symposium: After spending almost two days on an airplane, Ashraf Galal arrived in Austin from Doha, Qatar, to share research on the U.S. image in Arab online journalism. “This is my first visit to Austin and I’m very impressed with the system of … Read More
Research | April 5, 2008
Online videos are rapidly changing the face of journalism, Neil Thurman and Ben Lupton of London’s City University said as they presented their paper at the ninth annual International Symposium on Online Journalism. Thurman and Lupton’s paper, Convergence Calls: Multimedia Storytelling at British News Websites, covered how embedded videos are affecting the online journalism world. … Read More
Accountability | April 5, 2008
For two years, Fernando Rodrigues collected information on politicians in Brazil including a list of their personal assets and patrimony. His collection of information was made public in 2002, and two election years later, in 2006, a million viewers flocked to the Web site Politicos do Brasil to see what the candidates’ assets included. Rodrigues, 44, … Read More
Distribution | April 5, 2008
Games can be the key to the future of journalism, said the four panelists at a Saturday morning panel on news games at the International Symposium on Online Journalism. Howard Finberg, the executive director of the Poynter Institute’s NewsU.org, said that games help audiences better retain the information presented. “A retention rate of 20 percent … Read More
Multimedia | April 5, 2008
From a copyeditor at the Chicago Tribune to the executive director of NewsU.org, Howard Finberg took a “long and tricky path.” Sitting down in a courtyard of the ACES after he spoke as a part of the News Games panel at the ninth annual International Symposium on Online Journalism, Finberg explained the intricacies of this … Read More