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Closing Keynote

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

We’ll finish the second day of the Symposium with media writer and entrepreneur, Elizabeth Spiers. Currently a columnist for Fast Company magazine, she was previously the Publisher and Founder of Dead Horse Media, editor-in-chief of mediabistro.com, a contributing writer and editor at New York magazine, and the founding editor of Gawker.com

List of Speakers, Panelists, and Moderators

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

When we started planning this meeting we said we wanted a mix of newspeople, technology entrepreneurs, academics, and researchers. Diversity, we felt, would allow us to see the intersection of computation and journalism from every possible angle. So far, so good.

Chris Barr - senior editorial director at Yahoo! and former founding Editor in Chief of […]

News X Roadmaps

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Generally, it’s good to know where you’re going. We’ve asked authorities in areas critical to journo-tech success to tell us where they see things headed in a series of quick, hard-hitting presentations. Our speakers:

Neil Budde, former Editor in Chief at Yahoo! News, will talk about what’s ahead in online news content
Wally Dean, Online/Broadcast Director at […]

21st Century Editor in Chief Panel

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

An innovation is just an idea until the person in the corner office signs off and makes it real. We wanted to get a sense for what executive decisions are like for people at the top of the editorial pyramid. Specifically, we’re eager to learn how an Editor in charge assesses new technologies, and how […]

Paul Ferguson added to Advances in News Gathering Panel

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Paul Ferguson recently won a technical Emmy award for mobile news gathering system that he and Terence Burke put together for CNN’s International desk. The backpack-able system allows a one-man band or a pair of journalists in the field to gather, edit, and upload news video with equipment that fits in a backpack. They can […]

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