2005 Batten Symposium

2005 Batten Symposium Transcripts

Sponsored by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

Welcome:
Jan Schaffer
J-Lab Executive Director

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

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

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

Interactive Databases, Graphics:
Moderator: Andrew Nachison
Co-director, The Media Center at the American Press Institute

Adrian Holovaty (speaking) and Wilson Miner show their Grand Prize-winning site, chicagocrime.org.

Adrian Holovaty, Lead Developer, Holovaty and Associates
and Wilson Miner, Designer, chicagocrime.org
• See chicagocrime.org

Andrew Sherry, Deputy Managing Editor, News, USATODAY.com
and Juan Thomassie, Senior Designer, USATODAY.com
• See USA Today's "Next Generation Data Maps"

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

Participatory Journalism:
Moderator: Jan Schaffer
Batten Awards Advisory Board
J-Lab Executive Director

John Robinson
Editor, News & Record, Greensboro, N.C.
• See News & Record's "Town Square"

Michael Skoler
Managing Director of News, Minnesota Public Radio
• See "The Idea Generator" from Minnesota Public Radio's "Public Insight Journalism"

Awards Ceremony Remarks:
Bryan Monroe
Chairman, Batten Awards Advisory Board
Assistant Vice President - News, Knight Ridder Inc.

Keynote Dialogue:
Jimmy Wales, Founder, Wikipedia; President, Chairman, WikiMedia Foundation
Michael Kinsley, Former Editorial and Opinion Editor, Los Angeles Times
Moderated by Jan Schaffer and Bryan Monroe

Jump to Keynote Dialogue Page: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

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