July 15, 2008 - July 18, 2008
Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California
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About the Seminar
The changes in the way news and information are reported, delivered and consumed demand editors with new vision and leadership skills.
The Knight Digital Media Center recognized the challenges editors must meet and brought top editors and online managers from 12 newspapers this 4-day, all expenses-paid leadership conference in Los Angeles designed to help focus their 21^st century newsroom.
This unique gathering, underwritten by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and McCormick Foundation, took place July 15-18, 2008, in Los Angeles. Highlights included the best ideas and innovations available to help editors shape their organization’s future.
Discussions included:
- Identifying and understanding the new online audience
- Incubating new technologies to transform the news
- Making collaborative journalism work
- Analyzing new forms of storytelling for the web
- Creating new models of newsroom organization
- Managing change
- Training for the future
Agenda
July 15, 2008, 1:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Laying the Foundation
Welcome and Introductions (Vikki Porter)
What You Told Us (McClellan)
Roundtable Discussion (Vahlberg)
Program: Understanding and Serving the Changing Audience in the Digital Now (Mitchell)
Presentation by:
- Vikki Porter, Director, Knight Digital Media Center, USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
- Michele McLellan, Consultant, Knight Digital Media Center, Block by Block Community News Summit
- Vivian Vahlberg, President, Vahlberg & Associates
- Amy Mitchell, Deputy Director, Project on Excellence in Journalism
July 15, 2008, 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Welcome reception
July 15, 2008, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Dinner & Keynote
Keynote: “Seven Deadly Myths of Innovation”
Presentation by:
- Krisztina "Z" Holly, Vice Provost for Innovation and Executive Director USC Stevens Institute for Innovation
Full Agenda
Fellows
Ellen Alfano
Deputy Executive Editor/Vice President for Online at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Linda Austin
Editor and vice president of the Lexington Herald-Leader
Traci Bauer
Managing editor/multimedia and innovation at the (Rochester, N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle
Kathy Best
Managing editor, digital news and innovation, at The Seattle Times
David Boardman
Executive editor of The Seattle Times
Full Fellow List
Chinn: Metrics
Fulton: Social Networks
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