From live filibuster coverage to online chats between reporters and readers, livestreaming is a low-cost tool for engaging audiences and extending the product offerings of a newsroom. In this hands-on session, we’ll put tools in the hands of attendees and lead them in prepping and airing an actual livestream. Participants will handle a range of […]

There’s more than 7.2 billion humans on earth but only about 2 billion currently have access to the Internet. This session will discuss real world lessons, experiments and strategies for building technologies to serve what Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg refers to as “The Next 5 Billion Internet Users.” In emerging markets, audience’s first experiences with digital […]

You shot a video, now what? You finally gathered the courage grab a camera and shoot some video, but now you’re buried under a pile of clips and you’re feeling overwhelmed. “Where do I start? Will anybody even watch this?” Probably not, unless you attend this presentation where you’ll learn the real secret to keeping […]

So many journalists are being told to work with data, but they have no clue what it means or where to begin. So many open data advocates want to bring journalists on side, but they don’t what they need or how to reach them. We unpack the growing popularity of hackathons to ask: why journalists […]

Since The Daily tried then failed to deliver a successful daily news product via a tablet app, other organizations have tried various models. Many news organizations have created tablet apps that simply pull in web feeds to try to create a touchscreen experience for people who prefer tablets, but others are attempting to create edition-based […]

Communities of color are growing, and news organizations need to understand them better. Pew has done solid research on media consumption habits – people of color use mobile social networks to get their news at higher rates than whites, for example – but we lack high-utility information about ways to engage audiences that currently don’t […]

Techcamps, Hackathons, PeachTech Exchanges what are they and how are journalists, technologists and diplomats increasingly coming together in these open space and hybrid formats to create diplomacy, development and peace in a global context? Meet some of the participants and organizers of these events and learn how to organize your own. How can these and […]

We propose a presentation demonstrating workflows for creating multimedia projects in an academic environment. In 2001 a group of software developers created a document titled the Agile Manifesto, redefining how digital products should be developed in the 21st century. These ideas consisted of incremental improvements, iteration, self-organizing, evolutionary development and adaptive planning. At a J-School, […]

Mystified by the foundations of web development? Recognize the terms, but aren’t sure how all the pieces fit together? Don’t have a clue about what happens when you hit the return key in your browser? Let’s go into the belly of the beast and come out victorious. We will deconstruct and re-assemble a web page […]

Most journalists agree that short-form video does not deliver news with a great deal of value – some dismiss it as “rapid but vapid.” For years, TV has been blamed for “dumbing down” the news. Now, mobile short-form video seems to be the new fall guy – taking news down a notch with its bite-sized […]