Symposium Year: ISOJ 2011

REPORTR.NET: How newspapers in Norway are transitioning to digital

Elvind Thomsen from Norway outlined how the Schibsted Media Group had shifted its financial base from print to digital at the ISOJ. Newspapers are popular in Norway, with the average user reading 1.3 newspapers a day. But this is declining, from 1.6 newspapers in 2009. Thomsen said part of the reason for this was virtually …  Read More

REPORTR.NET: Lessons on newspaper paywalls from Mexico

In the session on paywalls at the ISOJ, Jorge Meléndez, vice president for new media, Grupo Reforma (Mexico), explained how the newspapers have had paywalls since 2002. The newspaper sites were free for the first two years. But they realized there was a very small online advertising market so the group just did it. Part …  Read More

‘DMN’ director talks about the ‘Great Equalizer’ of news access

Mark Medici, Dallas Morning News’ director of audience development, discussed during ISOJ the implementation of a Dallas Morning News pay option: subscriber content. Companies cannot fail to innovate, Medici said, otherwise they fail. So the Dallas Morning News is trying to innovate by empowering and understanding their consumers. Medici said the web time line has …  Read More

Knight Center: Experimenting key to making newspaper paywalls work

Just days after The New York Times paywall went live, media executives gathered at the 12th International Symposium on Online Journalism to discuss the merits and challenges of charging for newspaper content in an environment where readers are used to accessing online news for free. The panel, “Paywalls: Charging for News Content. Does it Work?,” …  Read More

Knight Center: Local news, apps, and new ideas by old orgs make Vivian Schiller optimistic about journalism

In her talk “Reasons to be Cheerful: An Optimist’s view on the State of Digital Journalism,” Vivian Schiller gave seven reasons to be optimistic about where journalism is headed. Schiller, who resigned her post as NPR’s CEO last month after gaffes at NPR on her watch, gave a keynote address at the 12th International Symposium …  Read More

First ISOJ research journal announced

For the first time in the 12-year history of the International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ), the research presented at the conference will be available in e-book and traditional printed form. Rosental Alves, Knight Chair in Journalism and UNESCO Chair in Communication at the University of Texas at Austin, announced the ISOJ journal during his …  Read More

Panel to discuss sustainability of nonprofit journalism

Nonprofit news organizations have been popping up on the Internet in the past couple of years, but the growing concern is: Will these news sites sustain their operations once foundation grants and donations run out? This topic will be dissected by leaders of nonprofit journalism sites from the United States and Peru at the International …  Read More

Former NPR leader to deliver keynote address at online journalism symposium

Veteran media executive and online journalism expert Vivian Schiller will kick off the International Symposium on Online Journalism with her keynote address set for 8:45 a.m. on April 1. Schiller was ready to fulfill her commitment to address participants at the symposium despite the publicity surrounding her recent resignation as president and CEO of NPRafter …  Read More

Professionals to debate merits of news paywalls at online journalism symposium

The hotly debated topic of charging for access to online news will be addressed during a panel titled “Paywalls: Charging for news content. Does it work?” on the first day of the International Symposium on Online Journalism. Chaired by Tim Lott, vice-president/audience strategy at The Austin American-Statesman, the panel gets underway at 9:30 a.m. on …  Read More