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7th International Symposium on Online Journalism

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Online Journalism Gains Momentum

By Yookyung Lee

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 worldwide meeting since 1999.

"All elements in journalism will be connected to multimedia at the end," Alves said. "The symposium set different perspectives and created new paradigm in communication. Following media revolution, academically and practically we are on a different evolution."

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Program

Friday, April 7, 2006

Opening session
|| Rosental Calmon Alves, Professor, Knight Chair in Journalism and UNESCO Chair in Communication, School of Journalism, UT Austin (Symposium Chair)
|| Lorraine Branham, Director, School of Journalism, UT Austin
|| Mark Tremayne, Assistant Professor, School of Journalism, UT Austin (Symposium Research Chair)

Cash Cows or Entrecôte: The Influence of Interdependency on Physical and Virtual Newspapers
|| Keynote Speaker: Robert Picard, Hamrin Professor of Media Economics and Director of the Media Management and Transformation Center, Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping University, Sweden

Audience and Business Models: Will the Online News Industry be Able to Finance Quality Journalism?
Chair: Lorraine Branham, Director, School of Journalism, UT Austin
|| Vin Crosbie, President and Managing Partner, Digital Deliverance
|| Gary Meo, Senior Vice President, Print and Internet Services, Scarborough Research

The Integration of Newsrooms: Should Online and Print Newsrooms Merge?
Chair and Presenter: Pablo J. Boczkowski, Associate Professor, Northwestern University (Author of Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers)
|| Len Apcar, Editor-in-Chief, The New York Times on the Web
|| George Rodrigue, Vice President and Managing Editor, The Dallas Morning News

The Emergence of Citizen Journalism and Social Media
Chair and Presenter: Barbara Bry, Founding Editor of Voice of San Diego; COO, Blackbird Venture, La Jolla, CA
|| Clyde Bentley, MyMissourian.com, Missouri School of Journalism
|| Dan Pacheco, Senior Product Manager, Bakotopia.com
|| Elizabeth Osder, Local, Search and Social Media, Yahoo.com

The Impact of Citizen Journalism and Social Media on Newspapers
Chair: Robert Rivard, Editor, San Antonio Express-News
|| Jim Brady, Vice President and Executive Editor, WashingtonPost.com
|| Scott Clark, Vice President and Editor, HoustonChronicle.com
|| Juan Carlos Luján Zavala, Editor, ElComercio.com.pe, Lima, Peru
|| Fred Zipp, Managing Editor, Austin American-Statesman

Multimedia Journalism Narrative: Should Online Journalism Embrace Traditional Video, or Try a Richer Blend of Video, Photos, Animation, Text, etc.?
Chair: Donna DeCesare, Assistant Professor, School of Journalism, UT Austin
|| Jen Friedberg, Multimedia Producer, Star-Telegram.com, Fort Worth, TX
|| Bart Marable, Creative Director, Terra Incognita Productions, Austin, TX
|| Mindy McAdams, Professor and Knight Chair in Journalism, University of Florida
|| Jose Manuel Valenzuela, Editor, ep3.es (El Pais' multimedia magazine), Spain
|| Ashley Wells, Executive Producer/Editorial Concepts, MSNBC.com

Saturday, April 8, 2006

Opening Session
|| Rosental Calmon Alves, Professor, Knight Chair in Journalism and UNESCO Chair in Communication, School of Journalism, UT Austin (Symposium Chair)
|| Rod Hart, Dean, College of Communication, UT Austin

Internet: The New Frontier for Agenda-Setting Effects
|| Keynote Speaker: Maxwell McCombs, Professor and Jesse H. Jones Chair in Communication, School of Journalism, UT Austin

International Perspectives on Online Journalism
Chair: Maggie Rivas Rodriguez, Associate Professor, School of Journalism, UT Austin
|| Guillermo Franco, Editor, ElTiempo.com, Colombia
|| Vincent Maher, Director, New Media Lab, Rhodes University, South Africa
|| Paula Jung, Doctoral Candidate, Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Trends in Online News: Audiences and Content
Chair: Mark Tremayne, Assistant Professor, School of Journalism, UT Austin
|| Donica Mensing, University of Nevada-Reno : Click Here to Learn More: A Comparison of Online Newspaper, Online Broadcast and Online-Only News Sites (*)
|| Tania Cantrell, UT Austin: Looking at Local Dailies’ Election 2004 Online News Coverage (*)
|| Major Highfield & Justin Sablich, Syracuse University: A Periodical Phenomenon: A Look at Podcasting's Effect on Newspaper Audience, Advertising, and Atmosphere (*)
|| Cindy Royal, Virginia Commonwealth University: Visualizing Technology: Images in Google and Yahoo News Aggregators (*)
|| Sue Robinson, Temple University: Gateway or Gatekeeper: The Institutionalization of Online News in Creating an Altered Technological Authority (**)

Citizen Journalism: Possibilities and Pitfalls
Chair: Steve Reese, Jesse H. Jones Professor and Associate Dean, College of Communication, UT Austin
|| Sharon Meraz, UT Austin: Citizen Journalism, Citizen Activism, and Technology: Positioning Technology as a ‘Second Superpower’ in Times of Disasters and Terrorism (*)
|| Neil Thurman, City University-London: Participatory Journalism in the Mainstream: Attitudes and Implementation at British News Websites (**)
|| Lou Rutigliano, UT Austin: Web 2.0, Society 1.0: Online Citizens Media, But For Which Citizens? (*)
|| Julie Neumann, UT Austin: The Impact of the Internet on Journalism: An Examination of Blogging, Citizen Journalism, and a Dot.Com Solution for the Online Edition (*)

Wrap-up Discussion Session
|| Rosental Calmon Alves, Professor, Knight Chair in Journalism and UNESCO Chair in Communication, UT Austin
|| Mark Tremayne, Assistant Professor, School of Journalism, UT Austin

(*) Refereed research papers (blind reviewed).
(**) Top rated paper.