This weekend marks the 11th annual Symposium on Online Journalism in Austin, Texas.
In a nod to the times Multimedia Journalism students from UT Austin’s School of Journalism are live blogging the event throughout the weekend.
As the Symposium is still going here are some of the most interesting points raised.
In this video James Moroney III, publisher and CEO of The Dallas Morning News talks about the challenges for ‘legacy’ media moving online.
In a challenging and provocative keynote speech Steven Kydd of Demand Media discussed the controversy of their first year in business.
We’re not trying to create full-time jobs, we’re trying to give freelancers a great opportunity for content production. If you ask any of our writers, they all have very different reasons for why Demand works for them.
Researchers Robert Bergland, Lisa Crawford, Sarah Noe, David Hon conducted an interesting, although unfinished, study of interactivity which shows that online newspapers in the UK are leading the way in new media production.
