Post-Conference Links
By BradStenger | February 28, 2008
Thanks to everybody who’s continuing the conversation.
- Rich Gordon’s summary and analysis of the CnJ conference Journalists and Technologists: An Uneasy Courtship landed on the sidebar of Poynter Institute’s Romanesko blog.
- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution posted a new job opening for a
Computational JournalistStrategic Channel Manager on journalismjobs.com - Brad Stenger’s summary of everything Info Viz at CnJ can be found at the Information Aesthetics blog (warning: it’s a long post).
- Here are links to searches for “computation journalism” on Google News (http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=computation+journalism&scoring=n) and Google Blogsearch (http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&q=computation+journalism&scoring=d).
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Journalism 3G Webcast, Notices
By BradStenger | February 22, 2008
We have a live webcast of the Symposium, available at http://www.computational-journalism.com/symposium/webcast/
Also, the meeting has received some good publicity at Online Journalism Review and PBS MediaShift Idea Lab. We’ll post more of these notices as they appear.
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Webcast
By Nick Diakopoulos | February 20, 2008
It’s sold out! We’ll be packed to capacity here in Atlanta (over 220 registrants). For those of you that still want to hear our speakers and panels or are out of town and couldn’t make it, we’ll be webcasting the entire thing live off of the GVU site.
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Closing Keynote
By BradStenger | January 31, 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
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List of Speakers, Panelists, and Moderators
By BradStenger | January 29, 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 CNet Networks
- Krishna Bharat - Principal Scientist at Google and creator of Google News
- Ian Bogost - videogame designer, critic, and researcher, Assistant Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Founding Partner at Persuasive Games
- John Brothers - CTO of the Sunlight Foundation
- Amy Bruckman - Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Neil Budde - former Editor in Chief at Yahoo! News
- David Cohn - Beatblogging.org and NewAssignment.net
- Ezra Cooperstein - Director of Development and Production for the Viewer-Created Content group at Current TV
- Leah Culver - Founder of Pownce, a San Francisco-based micro-blogging service
- Wally Dean - Online/Broadcast Director at the Committee of Concerned Journalists
- Carl DiSalvo - Assistant Professor, School of Language, Literature, and Communication, Georgia Tech
- Paul Ferguson - Supervising Editor, International News, CNN
- Nic Fulton - Chief Scientist, Reuters Media
- Xaquin G.V. - Assistant Art Director at Newsweek.com and former Infographics Director at elmundo.es
- Mitchell Gelman - senior vice president and executive producer of CNN.com
- John Geraci - Co-Creator of outside.in
- Rich Gordon - Associate Professor and Director of Digital Technology in Education, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University
- Andrew Haeg - Senior Producer, Center for Innovation in Journalism, American Public Media
- Kristian Hammond - Co-Director Intelligent Information Lab, Department of Computer Science, Northwestern University
- Mark Hansen - Co-PI of the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing at UCLA, creator of sensorbase.org
- Alexander Hauptman - Senior Systems Scientist working on the Informedia: News-on-Demand project at Carnegie Mellon University
- Jeffrey Heer - University of California-Berkeley, creator of the Vizster social network visualization, the prefuse visualization toolkit, and the sense.us collaborative visualization interface
- Ramesh Jain - Donald Bren Professor in Information & Computer Sciences, Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine.
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss - lead developer for the Lawrence Journal-World and the Django Web application framework
- Anton Kast - Lead Scientist, Digg
- Gary Kebbel - Program Director at the Knight Foundation in charge of the Knight News Challenge
- Lila King- Senior Producer, Interactive Storytelling and User Participation at CNN.com
- Cliff Lampe - Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
- Solana Larsen - co-Managing Editor, GlobalVoicesOnline.org
- Shawn McIntosh - Director of Culture and Change at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Wilson Miner - Designer and Co-Founder of Everyblock
- Carol Minton Morris - Communications Director, National Science Digital Library
- Nate Nichols - Creator of NewsAtSeven
- Nora Paul - Director of the Institute for New Media Studies at the University of Minnesota
- Jenny Preece - Dean of the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, developing 911.gov, a prototype Community Response Grid
- Michael Rogers - Futurist in Residence, R&D Operations, New York Times
- Michael Skoler - Executive Director, Center for Innovation in Journalism at American Public Media
- John Stasko - Director of the Information Interfaces Research Group at Georgia Tech, currently on leave at Microsoft Research and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Elizabeth Spiers - media columnist for Fast Company magazine, founding editor of Gawker.com
- Amra Tareen - Founder and CEO, AllVoices.com
- Leonard Witt - Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair in Communication at Kennesaw State University and Founder of the Public Journalism Network
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