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8th International Symposium on Online Journalism

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The University of Texas School of Journalism has concluded its Eighth International Symposium on Online Journalism on Friday, March 30 and Saturday, March 31.

Editors, executives and scholars from around the world came to discuss how news organizations are transforming their news operations inside and out - from their business model to the storytelling process.

Program

Friday, March 30, 2007

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
|| Rod Hart, Dean, College of Communication, UT Austin

The end of the mourning, mewling, and moaning about the future of journalism: Why I'm a cock-eyed optimist about news
|| Keynote Speaker: Jeff Jarvis, Associate Professor and Director of the Interactive Journalism program at City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism and blogger at www.BuzzMachine.com

The transformation of newspaper to multimedia news organization – The merging of online-print newsrooms and the challenges of a continuous news flow
Chair: Lorraine Branham, Director, School of Journalism, UT Austin
|| Jim Brady, Vice President and Executive Editor, WashingtonPost.com
|| Neil Chase, Continuous News Desk Editor, NYTimes.com
|| Bill Grueskin, Managing Editor, WallStreetJournal.com
|| Kinsey Wilson, Vice President and Executive Editor, USA Today

The transformation of business models – How the online audience and revenues are changing how newspapers do business
Chair and Presenter: Ken Riddick, Vice President for Interactive, Star Tribune
|| Robert Benz, Vice President for Interactive, Scripps Newspapers
|| Julie Weber, General Manager, MySanAntonio.com
|| Fran Wills, Vice President for Interactive, Dallas Morning News

The transformation of journalism from monologue to conversation – Citizens’ participation in news production and dissemination
Chair and Presenter: Jan Schaffer, Executive Director, J-Lab, University of Maryland
|| Kate Marymont, Executive Editor, (Fort Myers, FL) News-Press
|| Kyle Poplin, Executive Editor, Bluffton Today
|| Dean Betz, Online News Editor, Houston Chronicle
|| Lisa Stone, President Operations and Evangelism, BlogHer LLC

The transformation of journalism on a flat world – International perspectives on online journalism
Chair: Martha Stone, Director of Shaping the Future project, World Association of Newspapers, Paris, France
|| Jean-François Fogel, Le Monde Interactif, Paris, France
|| Ismael Nafria, Content Deputy Editor, Prisacom/ElPais.com, Madrid, Spain
|| Juanita León, Online Editor, Semana Magazine, Bogotá, Colombia
|| Márion Strecker, Content Director, UOL, Brazil

Saturday, March 31, 2007

The transformation of storytelling techniques – How video and interactive features are changing news production routines
Chair: Nora Paul , director of the Institute for New Media Studies, University of Minnesota
|| Andrew DeVigal , Multimedia Editor, NYTimes.com
|| Jorge Sanhueza-Lyon, Video Journalist, Statesman.com
|| Brian Storm, President, MediaStorm Multimedia Production

Getting the most global medium to live up to its global promise
|| Keynote Speaker: Guy Berger, Professor and Head of the School of Journalism and Media Studies, Rhodes University, South Africa

Strategic positioning in the new media environment
Chair: Mark Tremayne, Assistant Professor, School of Journalism, UT Austin (Symposium Research Chair)
|| Neil Thurman, City University-London and Jack Herbert, Cambridge Publishers, Ltd.: Newspapers’ e-business models: A survey of attitudes and practice at UK news websites(*)
|| David Domingo, University of Iowa: Four dimensions of journalistic convergence: A preliminary approach to current media trends at Spain(*)
|| Loreto Corredoira y Alfonso , Universidad Complutense de Madrid: Press clipping and other information services: Legal analysis and perspectives(*)
||Richard Stevens, Southern Methodist University and Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, UT Austin: Making history useful: Web 2.0 and the U.S. Latino & Latina World War II oral history project web site(*)
|| Alex Avila , UT Austin: Exploring A New Radio Audience: A study of early adopters of Latino podcast media(*)

New journalistic forms and new journalists
Chair: Marguerite Moritz, Professor and UNESCO Chair in International Journalism, University of Colorado, Boulder
|| Daniel Reimold, Ohio University: Ink Stains Are So 20th Century: The resocialization of student journalists at online-only college publications(*)
|| Brian Carroll and Robert Richardson, Berry College: Identification, transparency and interactivity: A new paradigm of credibility for online journalism(*)
|| Cindy Royal and Deepina Kapila, Texas State University: What’s on Wikipedia, and what’s not…? Completeness of information on the online collaborative encyclopedia(*)
|| Lou Rutigliano, UT Austin: The future of journalism and how to teach it
|| Alfred Hermida , University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) and Neil Thurman, City University (London): Comments please: How the British news media is struggling with user-generated content(*) (**)

Journalism online: How content is affected
Chair: Gabriela Warkentin de la Mora, Director of the Department of Communication and UNESCO Chair in Communication, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico
|| Sue Robinson, University of Wisconsin at Madison: The new newsroom: A case study of the journalistic paradigm in a news narrative’s journey from a newspaper to cyberspace(*)
|| Ji Young Kim and Pamela Shoemaker, Syracuse University: An examination of newsworthiness indicators in online journalism(*)
|| Edward (Ted) M. Kian, University of Central Florida: Will a new medium for sports news offer less trivialization of female athletes? Examining descriptors used and stereotypes in newspaper and Internet articles on the NCAA women’s and men’s basketball tournaments(*)
|| Scott Lambert, Southern Illinois University: To post or not to post: Gatekeeping effects of breaking news on Internet newspaper websites(*)

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

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