Posts tagged with: Conferences
May 11, 2010
It seems like almost every week there’s some major conference happening about journalism, social media, Web 2.0, digital advertising, broadcasting, mobile, and other aspects of the media landscape. The trick is finding out what’s happening, when and where—early enough to register and get there, or to follow the action online.
Today Amy Webb of Webbmedia Group debuted a great free service: a public calendar of upcoming media conferences. Best of all, this is a Google Calendar, which offers lots of information for accessing and sharing this information…
Each calendar item includes information than the event date and name. There’s also location, web site, registration info, a short description, hashtags, and more. If you have additions, updates, or corrections for this calendar, e-mail Webbmedia Group. The “agenda” list-style view is especially useful for advance planning.
If you don’t think you’ll remember to visit the calendar page on the Webbmedia site, you can subscribe to this calendar so the information appears on your personal Google Calendar. (Just go to the Webbmedia Google calendar, click the “+Google Calendar” icon at the bottom right, and then click “Yes, add this calendar” in the dialog box.) You also can subscribe to the calendar in iCal (for Mac), or in XML.
By Amy Gahran, 05/11/10 at 10:44 am
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June 17, 2010
Data visualization appears to be the new darling the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, judging from the new batch of Knight News Challenge winners named June 16 at the Future of News and Civic Media conference at MIT in Cambridge, MA.
Knight called data visualization “one of the most promising new areas of digital journalism,” as it handed out $2.74 million in the fourth round of the five-year award program, including several six-figure grants to data visualization proposals. Here are some of the winners…
- Citytracking: This San Francisco-based project of Stamen Design (creators of Oakland Crimespotting) will get $400,000 (the biggest prize this year) to create embeddable data visualizations of municipal data.
- The Cartoonist: An Atlanta-based venture by videogame designer Ian Bosog, was awarded $378,000 to develop a free tool to create cartoon-like current event games.
- GoMap Riga: This Latvian initiative will receive $250,000 to develop a live user-generated online news map.
- Tilemapping: This Washington DC-based hyperlocal map tool project will get $74,000.
Knight awarded grants to a dozen projects in total. Some are designed to explore new funding mechanisms. For instance, a recent j-school grad from Chicago will get $250,000 to develop NowSpot, a real-time ad building tool using social media content. Another team will get $75,000 to pilot a Spot.us-style story development and crowdfunding project in Kentucky (with media partner Louisville Public Media).
Other grantees will build and test new reader engagement tools. A $350,000 award will go to the San Francisco developers of LocalWiki, project to create a toolset for community wikis. And Arizona State’s CitySeed project will get $90,000 to develop an app to geotag story ideas which others can then debate and act upon.
Other winning projects include virtual collaborative video editing, a “pro-am” reporting project with US Marines in Afghanistan, the rollout of a hyperlocal news model in Vermont, and an open courtroom reporting project in Boston.
Here’s the full list of the 2010 Knight News Challenge winners, with details about their projects. You can also watch video of the announcement, including a lightning round of presentations by the grantees. More coverage can also be found on the PBS IdeaLab blog. Through June 18, follow the rest of the conference via the Twitter hashtag #fncm.
Learn more about the five-year history of the Knight News Challenge. On June 16, the Knight Foundation published a comprehensive report about this program.
Yesterday, Knight also announced that former MacArthur Foundation executive John Bracken will be the new News Challenge director. He’s taking over for Gary Kebbel, who is moving on to become dean of the College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Nebraska (Lincoln).
The News Challenge announcement was just one part of the first day of the three-day MIT gathering, which brings together past and present grantees with other news and technology experts. A plenary discussion on “crowdbuilding,” (or “collaborative co-production”) featured anthropologist Gabriella Coleman, who studied open-source communities and who emphasized the value of ethically stable communities with select, committed participants. Also speaking at this session was Harvard Business School professor Karim Lakhani, who stressed the value of unique rewards to drive community participation.
The first day of the conference wrapped with the first of many project demos from the MIT Center for Future Civic Media. Watch for additional coverage this week.
By A. Adam Glenn, 06/17/10 at 4:03 am
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July 06, 2010
If you’re trying to wrap your head around the transformation of the media industry, a good place to start might be the idea of “perestroika”—the old Soviet term that described the dramatic restructuring of its most mature institutions. That, in fact, is the theme for an industry gathering in Philadelphia later this month that explores the transformation of computing, communications, business, and society in the Network Age, while asking the question: After everything is connected, “what’s next?”
The July 29-30 Supernova forum, co-hosted by the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, is produced by Kevin Werbach, a former FCC technology official and organizer of the PC Forum with Esther Dyson. Technologists, entrepreneurs, business executives, investors, and policymakers will come together to discuss three overarching themes.—evolving digital infrastructure and platforms, models for networked business innovation, and transforming or replacing established institutions.
Tech policy forum participants include White House official Beth Noveck, Comcast Executive Vice President David Cohen, Google’s Washington counsel Richard Whitt and BuzzMachine’s Jeff Jarvis. And other participants will also lead discussion at afternoon unconferences and “challenge sessions.”
Check out the agenda and register here.
If, on the other hand, you’re just trying to figure out the restructuring of your own newsroom, the gathering for you might be the International Newsroom Summit in London, Sept. 8-9.
Speakers and attendees include many European newspaper publishers, but Editor & Publisher reports The New York Time’s Arthur Sulzberger Jr., will be on the program, along with top Washington Post newsroom exec Raju Narisetti.
The key question: what does the new generation newsroom look like, and how does it operate? Discussions are around topics like newsroom synergies, smartphone publishing, innovative storytelling and paid content. Register here.
By A. Adam Glenn, 07/06/10 at 11:54 am
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