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The 2005 James K. Batten Symposium and Awards for
Innovations in Journalism

Monday, September 12, 2005
Holeman Lounge • National Press Club
Washington, D.C.

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9:00 a.m.   Coffee, Registration

9:25 a.m.   Welcome

9:30 a.m.   Innovations in Digital Storytelling
Moderator:  Mark Hinojosa, Batten Awards Advisory Board
                  Associate Managing Editor, Electronic News, The Chicago Tribune

                  •"The Cost of War"
                  Jonathan McCarthy, Long Island Editor, Newsday.com

                  •"The View"
                  David Dunkley Gyimah, Senior Lecturer, University of Westminster
                  Producer, viewmagazine.tv [interactive magazines online]

10:15 a.m.  Interactive Databases, Graphics
Moderator:  Andrew Nachison, Co-Director, The Media Center at API

                  •"chicagocrime.org"
                  Adrian Holovaty, Lead Developer, Holovaty and Associates
                  Wilson Minor, Designer, chicagocrime.org

                  •"Next Generation Data Maps"
                  Andrew Sherry, Deputy Managing Editor, News, USATODAY.com
                  Juan Thomassie, Senior Designer, USATODAY.com

                  •"Miami's New Skyline"
                  Rick Hirsch, Director of Multimedia and Special Projects, The Miami Herald

11:00 a.m.  Participatory Journalism
Moderator:  Jan Schaffer, J-Lab Executive Director

                  •"Town Square"
                  John Robinson, Editor, News & Record, Greensboro, NC

                  •"Public Insight Journalism"
                  Michael Skoler, Managing Director of News, Minnesota Public Radio

11:45 a.m.  Awards Ceremony
Presenter:   Bryan Monroe, Chairman, Batten Awards Advisory Board
                  Assistant Vice President-News, Knight Ridder Inc.

Noon         Luncheon, First Amendment Room
Welcome:   Tom Kunkel, Dean, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, Univ. of MD

                  Keynote Dialogue on Participatory News:
Moderators: Jan Schaffer and Bryan Monroe

                  •Michael Kinsley, Editorial and Opinion Editor, Los Angeles Times

                  •Jimmy Wales, Founder, Wikipedia
                   President, Wikimedia Foundation

Sponsored by J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism
Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland
Funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

See the press release announcing the finalists.

 

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