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5th International Symposium on Online Journalism

Panelists Richard Stevens, Lou Rutigliano and Kathleen Olson discuss blog journalism.

A worldwide gathering of distinguished online journalists and multimedia scholars came to Austin, Texas to debate emerging trends in the electronic media industry at the fifth International Symposium on Online Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin School of Journalism.

This two-day event featured participants from the industry such as Doug Feaver, executive editor of WashingtonPost.com and president of the Online News Association; William Gruenskin, managing editor of The Wall Street Journal Online; Naka Nathaniel, NYTimes.com multimedia editor; Michael Silberman, MSNBC.com East Coast managing editor; Gary Kebbel, news director for America Online; John Granatino, vice president of news and operations for Belo Interactive; Nancy Regent, vice president and managing editor of Hoovers.com.

Panelists from abroad included Guillermo Franco, editor of ElTiempo.com in Bogota, Colombia; Makoto Ota, staff writer for Web edition of The Yomiuri Shimbun in Tokyo, Japan; and professors Manuel Gago, from the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain; and Ari Heinonen, of the University of Tampere, Finland.

This symposium featured an additional day dedicated to academic research and scholarly panels. This panel was created via the process of a call for papers and a blind review process that was coordinated by UT Austin assistant professor of journalism Mark Tremayne. Ten papers were selected. Topics presented at the symposium included "Research on Online Journalism," "The State of Blog Journalism," and "Reconsidering Journalism and Its Effects on a Wired World."

Program

Friday, April 16, 2004

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.?
Lorraine Branham, director, School of Journalism, UT Austin (moderator and discussant) | Manuel Gago, professor, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain | Ari Heinonen, professor of New Media Journalism, University of Tampere, Finland. | Guillermo Franco, editor, ElTiempo.com, Colombia.
Makoto Ota, Staff Writer, The Yomiuri Shimbun (www.yomiuri.co.jp) Japan

Second panel: Online News financial independence - Has the business model come of age?
Nancy Regent, vice-president/managingeditor, Hoovers.com (moderator) || Peter Zollman, founding principal, Classified Intelligence and Advanced Media Group ||John Granatino, vice president of news and operations, Belo Interactive || 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 journaism?
Leah Gentry, managing director, Finberg-Gentry/The Digital Futurist Consultancy, and Adjunct Professor, USC Annenberg School of Journalism (moderator and presenter) || Gary Kebbel, news director, America Online || Michael Silberman, MSNBC.com Managing Editor East Coast || Naka Nathaniel, NYTimes.com Multimedia Editor

Fourth panel: Online News status - Has it become indispensable?
Charlotte-Anne Lucas, content director, MySanAntonio.com (moderator and presenter) || Doug Feaver, executive editor of WashingtonPost.com, and president of Online News Association || Steve Klein, coordinator of the electronic journalism program, George Mason University || Steve Outing, Senior Editor Poynter Institute and columnist, Editor & Publisher magazine

Saturday, April 17, 2004

First panel: Research on Online Journalism
Paula Poindexter, associate professor, School of Journalism, UT Austin (moderator and presenter) || Guillermo Franco, editor, ElTiempo.com, Bogotá, Colombia || Steve Outing, Senior Editor Poynter Institute and columnist, Editor & Publisher magazine || Rosental Alves and Amy Schmitz Weiss, School of Journalism, UT Austin

Second Panel: "The State of Blog Journalism"
Mark Tremayne, assistant-professor, School of Journalism, UT Austin (moderator and discussant) || "Blog, blog, blog: web log learning experience in journalism classes" - Eric M. Wiltse, senior lecturer, Department of Journalism, University of Wyoming. || "When the Audience is the Producer: the art of the collaborative weblog" - Lou Rutigliano, graduate student, School of Journalism, UT Austin. || "Blogging the Story" - Sue Robinson, graduate student, Temple University || "Weblogs and the Search for User-Driven Ethical Models" - J. Richard Stevens, graduate student, School of Journalism, UT Austin. || "Citizens or Journalists? Legal and ethical rules governing journalists' personal Web logs" - Kathleen K. Olson, assistant professor, Lehigh University

"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.

Third Panel: "Reconsidering Journalism and its Effects on a Wired World"
Stephen D. Reese, professor, School of Journalism, UT Austin (moderator and discussant) || "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. || "Wikipedia as Participatory Journalism: Reliable Sources?" - Andrew Lih, assistant professor, Hong Kong University. || "Travelling without moving: Foreign news and boundary-crossing in Cyberspace" - Jeremy Edwards, graduate student, UT Austin. || "Redefining Multimedia Toward a More Packaged Journalism Online" - Amy Zerba, graduate student, UT Austin. || "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