Register for 2010 AEJMC Luncheon

Join us for lunch in Denver!

“Networked Journalism:
How Old and New Media are Collaborating”

Friday, Aug. 6, 2010
12:00 to 1:30 p.m.
Windows Room, 2nd floor, Tower Building
AEJMC Convention, Denver

Funded by the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation.

Co-sponsored by the Civic and Citizen Journalism and the Community Journalism Interest Groups and the Council of Affiliates.

Five news organizations around the country are participating in a yearlong pilot project, funded by J-Lab, to see if they can collaborate with at least five hyperlocal sites in each of their communities. They are the Seattle Times, Charlotte Observer, MiamiHerald, Asheville Citizen-Times and TucsonCitizen.com. Seattle has already grown its partnerships. Learn how the collaborations are crafting their agreements, their ethics standards and more. And learn how they are sharing content and exploring revenue opportunities.

 

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Moderator: Jan Schaffer, Director, J-Lab, American University

Introduction: Rose Ann Robertson, Assoc. Dean for Academic Affairs, School of Communication, American University

Panelists:

Bob Payne
Bob Payne has been Director of Communities at seattletimes.com since summer of 2008. His primary task has been to determine and execute the Times’ strategy regarding neighborhood- and topic-specific content and the online communities of interest that thrive in those niche areas.
While some media companies have chosen to launch their own sites as part of their hyperlocal strategy, the Times has opted instead to build relationships with local content producers with the goal of developing mutually supportive relationships that spotlight the strengths of the respective sites.

Rick Hirsch
Rick Hirsch is Senior Editor / Multimedia at The Miami Herald, where he has worked as a reporter and editor for 30 years.
Hirsch oversees the content on The Herald’s non-print platforms, which includes news websites, its community news partner initiative, mobile sites, video news and programming and a radio news operation for the South Florida NPR affiliate, WLRN-91.3 FM. He also supervises newsroom training and recruiting. 

Steve Gunn
Steve Gunn is the Editor for Innovations at The Charlotte Observer in North Carolina. Previously, he had worked as metro editor and projects editor for the paper. A veteran journalist, he has worked as an editor or reporter at New York Newsday and the Dallas Times Herald.

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