Creating Web-Centric Journalism Networks for Communities [Print This Page]
- Time: 10:00-10:20 a.m.
- Date: Friday, Sept. 12
- Place: Fred W. Smith Forum, Reynolds Journalism Institute
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Journalists and members of communities that focus on health and science issues can create a useful and solution-oriented network by contributing their databases, resources, information and stories to a news "shell," or template. In this session, Jane Stevens will present the open-source templates that she will develop as a 2008-2009 Donald W. Reynolds Fellow at the Reynolds Journalism Institute. These templates have the potential to allow journalists to serve in their traditional roles as fact-checkers, watchdogs and trusted sources while helping their communities solve problems. This presentation should be of particular interest to those communities who want to hire journalists and to reporters who are establishing similar Web-centric networks.
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Presenter: Jane Stevens
2008-2009 Donald W. Reynolds Fellow
Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute
Jane Stevens is a member of the 2008-2009 inaugural class of Fellows at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism. A freelance journalist, consultant and teacher who specializes in science and technology, she has conducted multimedia reporting for The New York Times, the Discovery Channel and MSNBC.com. Stevens consults with news organizations that are transitioning to the Web-centric world, including the Ventura (Calif.) County Star, the Oakland (Calif.) Tribune, the Lawrence (Kan.) Journal-World, NPR and the San Diego Union-Tribune. She helped develop the multimedia reporting program at the University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism, in addition to developing multimedia reporting workshops for mid-career journalists through the Knight Digital Media Center. She has written for magazines such as Discover, International Wildlife, National Geographic, National Wildlife, Science, and Technology Review. Stevens is director of the Violence Reporting Project, which encourages news organizations to include a scientific and prevention/public health approach to crime reporting. In 2007, she led a team that developed TOPP.org (Tagging of Pacific Predators), a new approach to science journalism that is a collaborative effort with Conservation International, Leatherback Trust, Yahoo! and MINAE, Costa Rica's environmental agency.
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About the Technology Summit
The Technology Summit is an action-packed exhibition of the ideas, trends, tools, technologies and companies that are leading the way into 21st-century journalism. Leading technology experts and industry pioneers will preside over interactive presentations divided into three tracks: Digital Storytelling, Disruptive Technologies and Web 3.0 Economics. Guests will have the chance to see new technologies at work and visit with those who are shaping tomorrow's media.
Technology Summit Advisers
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Kim Garretson
General Partner
Realist Ventures & Advisory Services
Blog: Realist
Kim Garretson, BJ '73, is a general partner in Realist Ventures & Advisory Services. He advises venture capital firms, early-stage consumer digital media companies, retailers and media companies on disruptive innovation. Previously, Garretson was the liaison to the venture capital industry for Best Buy's Corporate Strategy & Innovation division. Prior to that, Garretson co-founded NOVO Media Group, which was the fourth-largest digital agency at its sale to Leo Burnett in 2001. Garretson also has been a partner in the upper Midwest's largest marketing and public relations agency. He began his career as a senior editor and technology columnist for Better Homes and Gardens.
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Mike McKean
Director of the Futures Lab
Reynolds Journalism Institute
Mike McKean is the Futures Lab director at the Reynolds Journalism Institute and a professor at the Missouri School of Journalism, where he has taught for 22 years. McKean created the School's convergence journalism program and chaired the convergence journalism faculty from 2005-2008. He is a leader in teaching with technology at the local, national and international levels. Winner of the MU's Innovator Award, McKean is chairing the campus Information Technology Committee; coordinating partnerships with Apple, Inc., AT&T and Adobe Systems; and helping establish convergence curricula at Moscow State University in Russia and Shantou University in China. McKean also has chaired the radio-TV news faculty at Missouri, served as Web director at KOMU-TV and news director of KBIA-FM. Before joining the School of Journalism, he was managing editor of KTRH NewsRadio in Houston and assistant news director at the Missourinet in Jefferson City.
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