Opening Lunch (Crocker-Hershey Rooms)
Welcome and Introductions

• Vikki Porter
• UCB - Orville Schell, Marcia Parker, Lanita Pace-Hinton, Paul Grabowicz and Jane Stevens
• USC - Michael Parks
• Knight Advisory Board - Bill Gannon, co-chair, Dan Gillmor, Jennifer Sizemore, Bruce Koon, Adam Powell
• Knight Foundation - Eric Newton

Opening Roundtable Discussion - Newspaper participants share stories about what they’re most proud of having accomplished in journalism and what needs to be preserved in the shift to digital publishing.

• Vivian Vahlberg, director, Digital Media, Media Management Center

How are people using the Web and online news sites and what’s different from the habits of print newspaper readers; The radical new news habits of young people

• Jeffrey Cole, director, USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future
• Lee Rainie, director, Pew Internet & American Life Project

Facing the challenge of technologies; How can news organizations incubate and develop their own new technologies

• Rob Curley, vice president of product development, Washingtonpost.com and Newsweek Interactive
• Mike Jenner, executive editor, The Bakersfield Californian

Dinner Presentation

How are news organizations integrating blogs and other forms of citizen media and which online communities are thriving and why; Experiments in co-reporting stories with citizens

• Jennifer Carroll, vice president/new media content, Gannett Co., Inc.
• Dan Gillmor, Director, Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship and the Kauffman Professor of Digital Media Entrepreneurship, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University

Video and Flash projects that are drawing users at news Web sites; Rethinking storytelling with packages of multimedia stories enclosed in contextual shells

• Jane Ellen Stevens, freelance multimedia journalist
• Ashley Wells, creative director, MSNBC.com

Reorganizing the newsroom to publish for the Web and the new roles for reporters and editors; integrating print and online operations in a Web-centric approach

• Dave Ledford, executive editor, Wilmington, The News Journal
• Mike Jenner, executive editor, The Bakersfield Californian
• Joe Howry, executive editor, of Ventura County (CA) Star

What kind of training do reporters and editors need to produce digital products and how should they get the training; Making every reporter a multimedia producer

• Lauren Hertel, lecturer, University of Florida
• Tim Porter, assistant director, Tomorrow's Workforce

Technological innovations like search, GIS, databases, customization, etc. and how news organizations should implement them; what innovations will hit the market in 3-5 years that news organizations need to be preparing for or developing now

• Adam Powell, USC's Integrated Media Systems
• Chad Dickerson, director, Yahoo! Developer Network

Newspaper participants tell the group how they think they might apply what they’ve heard for the past two days to their news organizations and what specific topics they plan to work on in the Tuesday workshop sessions.

Workshop sessions with newspaper participants, mentors and students.

The newspaper participants are paired up and work with each other in groups of four on drawing up specific plans to change their news organizations and operations, based on the ideas presented on Sunday and Monday. Working with each group of newspaper participants are mentors that include some the discussion leaders from Sunday and Monday, members of the Knight Digital Media Center Advisory Board, and other experts, with at least one mentor per working group. Also assigned to work with each group is a student from UCB.

Newspaper participants present to the entire group summaries of the plans for changing their news organizations

What news sites are making money online and how; future revenue sources and transforming the newspaper business model

• Steve Yelvington, Morris Communications
• James T. Hamilton, Duke University
• Ralph Gage, Lawrence Journal-World.

How to implement the plans.

• Nedra Weinstein, principal, Arden Consulting