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Carla Zanoni and Jennifer Hicks: Better Living Through Newsroom Chemistry
Carla Zanoni, The Wall Street Journal Carla is executive emerging media editor for the The Wall Street Journal, where she is responsible for exploring and developing state-of-the-art news delivery and storytelling, including new social media and mobile platforms. She also heads the newsroom’s audience development team, focusing on engagement and newsroom analytics. Before coming to … Continued
Sarah Hill: VR Journalism: One Startup’s Collab Culture
Sarah Hill, StoryUP Sarah Hill is the chief storyteller and CEO of StoryUP, a VR journalism startup based in Columbia, Mo. A former interactive news anchor and chief storyteller for Veterans United Foundation, Hill creates with human media, pushing the transition of text-based storytelling to a three-dimensional world. She was the first person to use … Continued
Nicholas Whitaker: Immersive Storytelling
Nicholas Whitaker, The News Lab at Google Before joining Google in 2010, Nicholas Whitaker spent the previous decade producing, directing, editing, and shooting videos and still images for news, commercial, entertainment and advocacy media. Whitaker was also a professor at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts and Marymount Manhattan College, teaching courses in … Continued
Kevin Poortinga: Controlled Chaos: The Balance Between Herding Cats and Collaborative Innovation
Kevin Poortinga, USA TODAY Kevin Poortinga leads the USA Today Lab, a department designed to quickly incubate concepts, new businesses and new initiatives for the media network, which consists of more than 100 local news organizations and flagship USA TODAY. When not prototyping or experimenting, the Lab also champions an internal innovation grants program, a hybrid … Continued
Cole Goins: The Case for Radical Collaboration
Cole Goins, Reveal, from The Center for Investigative Reporting Cole Goins is the senior manager for engagement and community collaborations at Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, where he leads efforts to grow and empower Reveal’s audience. Working at the intersection of journalism, art and community engagement, he develops new opportunities for collaboration between newsrooms and … Continued
David Danto: Business Transformation: The Workplaces of Tomorrow
David Danto, Dimension Data and Interactive Multimedia & Collaborative Communications Alliance David Danto has more than three decades of experience delivering successful business outcomes in media and collaboration technology for various firms in the corporate, broadcasting and academic worlds. This includes the building and managing of the world’s largest commercial Cisco Immersive TelePresence ecosystem at the time (other … Continued
3 ways to make our workforces ready for tomorrow
David Danto of Dimension Data has spent most of his career helping businesses from various disciplines collaborate and build their culture. He was a speaker at the Collaboration Culture Symposium March 21 at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute. Here are three ways Danto suggests will ensure workplaces are conducive to collaboration and are ready … Continued
5 lessons from Corey Ford for every entrepreneur
The following are highlights from Corey Ford’s presentation at the Collaboration Culture Symposium March 21 at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute. Ford is the co-founder and managing partner of Matter, a startup accelerator that focuses on supporting media-based companies. Its accelerators are located in San Francisco and New York City 1. Storytelling is the … Continued
Corey Ford: Using a Collaborative Experimental Culture to Drive Innovation
Corey Ford, Matter Corey Ford is the co-founder and managing partner of Matter, a startup accelerator for entrepreneurs building scalable media ventures that create a more informed, connected and empowered society. Matter invests seed capital and provides intensive support through a human-centered, prototype-driven startup accelerator in San Francisco. Prior to Matter, Ford built Runway, a pre-team, … Continued
Stan Silvey: Launching the SEC Network: The Mizzou Story
Stan Silvey, University of Missouri Department of Intercollegiate Athletics Stan Silvey is assistant athletic director of broadcast operations at the University of Missouri Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. In this position, Silvey is primarily responsible for producing SEC Network television and multimedia broadcasts for Mizzou Athletics. In addition, he leads teams that are responsible for the content … Continued