Lunch in the ballroom. A panel explores approaches to teaching entrepreneurial journalism and trends in media startups. Featuring Retha Hill, executive director of the New Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship Lab at Arizona State University; Jeremy Caplan, director of education at CUNY's Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism; Asher Epstein, managing director of UMD's Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship, and Jan Schaffer, executive director of J-Lab, the Institute for Interactive Journalism at American University. Entrepreneur Mark Potts moderates.
Please note: only full conference registration attendees are permitted in the dinner. Student and day-pass registrations do not cover the meal.
These informal sessions will allow you to network with others interested in similar topics. The lead presenter at this table is Susan Westfall, Georgia Perimeter College: "Survival of the Fittest: SiriusXM Audience Trends."
These informal sessions will allow you to network with others interested in similar topics. The lead presenter at this table will be Bartosz Wojdynski, Virginia Tech: "Classifying interactive media forms: The two dimensions that matter"
These informal sessions will allow you to network with others interested in similar topics. The lead presenter at this table is Allissa Richardson, Morgan State University: Impact of mobile journalism on citizen journalism.
These informal sessions will allow you to network with others interested in similar topics. The lead presenter at this table is Ingrid Sturgis, Howard University: "Mobile Money for the Unbanked."
These informal sessions will allow you to network with others interested in similar topics. The lead presenter at this table is Donica Mensing, David Ryfe and Mehmet Gunes, University of Nevada, Reno: "Mapping the news network of the San Francisco Bay Area."
These informal sessions will allow you to network with others interested in similar topics. The lead presenter at this table is David Craig, University of Oklahoma: "Standards of Excellence in Online Journalism and the Impact of Social Media"
These informal sessions will allow you to network with others interested in similar topics. The lead presenter at this table is Amber Hinsley, St. Louis University:" "More than ‘liking’ the news—‘linking’ it: News organizations' Facebook followers and their motivations for sharing news material."
These informal sessions will allow you to network with others interested in similar topics. The lead presenter at this table is Tom Kennedy, Syracuse University, "Trends and techniques in video journalism."
Prominent journalists and media scholars peer into the future. Confirmed panelists include Washington Post managing editor Raju Narisetti; Charlie Beckett, director of the POLIS journalism & society think tank at the London School of Economics; and Deborah Nelson, Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist and UMD professor. Moderated by Jamie McIntyre of National Public Radio.
