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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 […]

Participant Journalism & Journalism Participation: Interacting & Authoring in New Media

Monday, January 14th, 2008

‘Participatory Journalism’ would have been the easy, obvious name for this panel. But nothing about getting the public involved with its news is easy or obvious. The difficulty, as our panelists will tell you, is that the interaction design requires a fine balance between information and engagement; of making the important interesting. Working in […]

Sensemaking & Information Visualization Panel

Friday, January 11th, 2008

Computer science researchers talk about Sensemaking when they’re exploring the role computation plays in helping people to organize information and find meaning in data. A related subject, Information Visualization, deals with the interactive, graphical presentation of information, which serves as a visual Sensemaking aid. Fortunately, journalists know these subjects, but under different names. Sensemaking is […]

Ubiquitous Journalism Panel

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Ubiquitous Journalism is our invented term for how the data flowing from large networks of sensors and/or people can be applied to journalism. In the Ubiquitous Journalism Panel we’re exploring big news data flows, whether they’re coming from lots of digital sensors in confined geography, or from lots of human reporters globally. The discussion […]

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