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Alex Kann: Meaningful Media: Making Change Through Creative Collaboration
Alex Kann, Media Trust Throughout his working life, Alex Kann has lived and breathed content – creating editorial propositions and stories driven by creativity, collaboration and innovation. At Media Trust he is director of community channel and audiences, responsible for the channel’s broadcast, digital, distribution and media and charity partnerships. Celebrating its 15th year of passionate … Continued
Katie Hawkins-Gaar: Old Walls, New Problems: Collaboration at Poynter
Katie Hawkins-Gaar, The Poynter Institute Katie Hawkins-Gaar is a member of the digital innovation faculty at The Poynter Institute, where she teaches journalists, stays on top of industry trends and geeks out about newsrooms testing new and exciting ideas. She is on a quest to prove that newsrooms don’t have to be unhappy places. Before joining Poynter, Hawkins-Gaar was … Continued
Scott Gurian: Cross-platform Collaborations on Investigative and Enterprise Reporting Series
Scott Gurian, previously NJ Spotlight and WNYC/NJ Public Radio Scott Gurian is a public radio and print journalist who has spent the past three years reporting on New Jersey’s long-term Superstorm Sandy recovery for WNYC/New Jersey Public Radio and NJ Spotlight. Previously, he worked as a producer for “The Takeaway” – a daily, national news program co-produced by WNYC, … Continued
Christina Hartman: Collaborating Up, Down and Laterally
Christina Hartman is an alumna of the University of Missouri who loves politics, cats and cooking. She’s a new mom happily married to a wonderful man with whom she likes pretending to be outdoorsy. At Newsy, she runs a newsroom of awesomely talented digital video producers who, despite practically sitting on top of each other, communicate and collaborate almost … Continued
Khari Johnson: Crowdfunding Beyond the Money
Khari Johnson, Through the Cracks Khari Johnson is a staunch believer in journalism, community, entrepreneurship and bringing underreported stories to light. He’s founder and editor of Through the Cracks: Crowdfunding in Journalism, a news website that monitors crowdfunding platforms to share stories that enable reporters and storytellers. Through the Cracks is a social enterprise whose coverage … Continued
Kristina Halvorson: Content/Communication
Kristina Halvorson, Brain Traffic Kristina Halvorson is widely recognized as one of the most important voices in content strategy. She is the CEO of Brain Traffic, the coauthor of “Content Strategy for the Web” and the founder of the Confab content strategy conferences. Halvorson’s work focuses on the complex processes, people, and policies that create the … Continued
Alphabet-soup roundup of fall industry events, part one
The fall rush of industry meetings (ONA, LMA, NNA, SNPA and ASNE/APME) got underway in late September and ended Oct. 18, giving you only a one-week respite before heading into Inland. Whew! Missed one or more of these meetings? I’ll offer a brief recap of themes, noteworthy statements and observations, plus links to additional coverage. … Continued
Online news startups explore revenue sources beyond advertising
Revenue was very much on the agenda when more than 100 local news entrepreneurs gathered at the LION Summit in Chicago Oct. 1-3. There were encouraging, if fledgling, signs that some sites are looking beyond banner display advertising. Supplemental sources include crowd-funding, membership programs, sponsored content, and events. For now, however, banner display advertising is … Continued
McCainspeakwrite plusgood, or How I came up with the name ‘Dodging the Memory Hole’
We started digging our current Memory Hole a few decades ago: Technological systems that support the creation and presentation of modern journalism, those digital troves holding “the first rough draft of history,” morphed so quickly and frequently over the years that we no longer know where the treasure is buried. Like drunken buccaneers, journalistic enterprises … Continued
McCainspeakwrite or How I came up with the name ‘Dodging the Memory Hole’
It’s been two years since I rolled out of Tucson, Arizona, and headed east on Interstate 10 toward the University of Missouri, a.k.a. Mizzou, my alma mater in Columbia, Missouri. Along with suitcases and camera gear from 30 years as a photojournalist, I brought audiobooks to pass the hours on cruise control. My first selection … Continued