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2009 Symposium Videos

Friday, April 17, 2009

8:00-8:30 Registration

8:30-8:45 Opening session(Video)
|| Rosental Calmon Alves, Professor, Knight Chair in Journalism and UNESCO Chair in Communication, School of Journalism, UT Austin (Symposium Chair)
|| Tracy Dahlby, Director, School of Journalism, Frank A. Bennack, Jr. Chair in Journalism, UT Austin
|| Jonathan Dube, President of the Online News Association (ONA)

8:45-9:30 Keynote Address: The Future of Journalism Amid Disappearing Newspapers(Video)
|| Paul Steiger, Editor-in-Chief, President and Chief Executive of ProPublica

9:30-11:00 Panel. Diverse Business Models in Online Journalism – Are We Trying Hard Enough?(Video)
Chair: Steve Outing, Columnist, Editor & Publisher
|| Premesh Chandran, Chief Executive Officer, Malaysiakini.com (Malaysia)
|| Beth Frerking, Assistant Managing Editor, partnership, Politico.com
|| Katie King, Creative and Development Editor, MSN (United Kingdom)
|| Márion Strecker, Content Director, UOL.com.br (Brazil)

11:00-11:15 Coffee Break

11:15-12:45 Panel. Using New Platforms and Social Networks to Enhance Interactivity and Journalism Outreach. Are Journalists Engaging in the Conversation? (Video)

Chair: Robert Rivard, Editor, San Antonio Express News
|| Paul Brannan, Emerging Platforms Editor, BBC News, (United Kingdom)
|| Andy Carvin, Senior Strategist for Social Media, National Public Radio
|| Rachel Nixon, News Director, NowPublic.com (Canada)
|| Robert Quigley, Internet Editor and Social Media Coordinator, Statesman.com and Austin360.com
|| Dwight Silverman, Interactive Journalism Editor, Houston Chronicle

12:451:45 p.m. Presentation by Steve Semelsberger, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Pluck Enterprise, followed by luncheon sponsored by Pluck

1:45-3:15 Panel. Newsroom Integration and the Prevailing Formula of Multimedia, Multiplatform Content – Is it Working?(Video)
Chair: Fred Zipp, Editor, Austin American-Statesman
|| Jim Brady, former Vice President and Executive Editor, WashingtonPost.com
|| Sewell Chan, Bureau Chief of City Room Blog, NYT.com
|| Jonathan Dube, Vice President, ABCNews.com
|| Anthony Moor, Deputy Managing Editor/Interactive, Dallas Morning News
|| Torry Pedersen, Chief Executive Officer, VG Group (Norway)

3:15-3:30 Coffee Break

3:30-5:00 Panel. Visual and Multimedia Storytelling on the Web and Beyond. Have we Already Created New Narrative Styles through the Use of Photos and Video?(Video)
Chair: José Zamora, Journalism Program Associate, Knight Foundation
|| David LaFontaine, Partner, Artesian Media and Managing Editor, Newspaper Association of America’s Audience Planbook
|| Travis Fox, Video Producer, WashingtonPost.com
|| Bill Gentile, Journalist-in-Residence, American University  
|| Fred Ritchin, Director, PixelPress
|| María Teresa Ronderos, Editor, Semana.com (Colombia)

Saturday, April 18, 2009

8:30-9:00 Registration

9:00-10:15 Panel. Ten Years of the Symposium: How We Saw Online Journalism in 1999, What has Happened Since Then, and What do we Predict for the Next Decade?(Video)
Chair: Rosental Calmon Alves, Knight Chair in Journalism and UNESCO Chair in Communication, School of Journalism, UT Austin
|| Gerry Barker, Digital Operations Revenue Manager, The Palm Beach Post, Florida
|| Steve Sullivan, Multimedia Editor, The Baltimore Sun, Maryland
|| Janine Warner, Digital Alchemist, Artesian Media, Inc.
|| Peter Zollman, Founding Principal, AIM Group

10:15-10:30 Presentation. Six Years of Symposium Research – A Review of Trends 2004-2009, by Amy Schmitz Weiss, Assistant Professor, San Diego State University and Symposium Research Chair (Video)

10:30-10:45 Coffee Break

10:45-12:00 Panel.  Citizen Journalism, User-Generated Content and Crowdsourcing: Who is Contributing to the Conversation and Why?* (Video)
Chair: Cindy Royal, Assistant Professor, Texas State University at San Marcos
|| Thinking about Citizen Journalism: Perspectives on Participatory News Production at Community Newspapers, Seth C. Lewis, Kelly Kaufhold, and Dominic L. Lasorsa, UT Austin
|| UGC Status and Levels of Control in Argentine, Colombian, Mexican, Peruvian, Portuguese, Spanish, U.S., and Venezuelan Online Newspapers, Elvira García de Torres et al, Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera (Spain)
|| When the Crowd Doesn’t See the Value: Crowdsourcing, Citizen Journalism, and the Cultural Production of Local Online News, Shayla Thiel-Stern, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
|| The Loud Public: Readers’ Comments in Online News Media, Na’ama Nagar, University at Albany-SUNY

12:00-1:00 Lunch sponsored by UT College of Communication

1:00-2:15 Panel. Reading Between the Lines: Investigations into the Messages, Frames and Perspectives on Online Journalism* (Video)
Chair: Tom Johnson, Marshall and Sharleen Formby Regents Professor, Texas Tech University
|| Framing Differences in Gender-Related Sport Coverage by Internet Sites and Newspapers, Edward (Ted) M. Kian, University of Central Florida
|| State Policy and News Websites in China, Dong Han and Ying Zhang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
|| Online Journalism: Reflections from a Political Economy of Communication Perspective, César Bolaño, Universidade Federal de Sergipe (Brazil)
|| Readers’ Comments to Online Editorials as a Space of Public Deliberation, Edith Manosevitch and Dana Walker, Researchers, Kettering Foundation

2:15-3:30 Panel. Looking Inward: Tracking the Changes and Transformations in Today’s Newsroom* (Video)
Chair: Amy Schmitz Weiss, Assistant Professor, San Diego State University (Symposium Research Chair)
|| Technology, Physical Organization, and Spatial Culture in the Transforming Newsroom, Sue Robinson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
|| Taking the Paper out of News: A Case Study of Taloussanomat, Europe’s First Online-only Newspaper, Neil Thurman and Merja Myllylahti, City University  (United Kingdom)**
|| Lost in the Ashes:  A Case Study Demonstrating the Importance of Embracing the Share Economy for Environmental and Scientific Journalism, J. Richard Stevens, University of Colorado at Boulder
|| Web Production, News Judgment, and Emerging Categories of Online Newswork in Metropolitan Journalism, Chris Anderson, Columbia University

3:30-3:45 Coffee Break

3:45-5:00 Panel. Invited Research Panel: International Journalism Perspectives from the Americas and Iberian Peninsula (Video)
Chair: Alfred Hermida, Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia (Canada)
|| From Gatekeeper to Social Partner: Citizen Journalism and the Journalist in Web 2.0 Participatory Environment in Brazil, Elizabeth Saad Corrêa and Francisco Madureira, Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil)
|| Why Should we Expect Worlds to Collide? A Case Study Analysis of “Jornal de Notícias” and its Strategic Production Changes, Luís António Santos and Manuel Pinto, Universidade do Minho (Portugal)
|| Creating an Index to Calculate the Level of Convergence of a Medium, Manuel Gago Mariño, Moisés Limia Fernández, Carlos Toural Bran, Xosé López García, Teresa de la Hera Conde-Pumpido and Xosé Pereira Fariña, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
|| Setting Guidelines on How to Design the News Online: An Analysis of the Portuguese Online Newspapers and their Spanish, Argentinean and Brazilian Counterparts, Nuno Vargas, Department of Design and Image, University of Barcelona (Spain)
|| The Use of Video Journalism and Other Types of Copyrighted Video in Teaching Journalism, Loreto Corredoira y Alfonso and Rodrigo Cetina Presuel, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)

5:00-5:30 Wrap-up (Video)

Chair: Rosental Calmon Alves, Knight Chair in Journalism and UNESCO Chair in Communication, UT Austin
|| Charlotte-Anne Lucas, Online Instigator, WilCharMedia (Symposium's Rapporteur)

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