Early Bird until 10 September!
29 November - 3 December 2010
New York and Chicago, USA
Language(s): English
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This study tour is focused on innovation and how American newspapers – which have faced serious financial challenges since 2008 – are finding solutions to keep readers on new platforms and take advantage of the latest social networks. As technology is involved in this process, news providers have to partner up with the most innovative and visionnary start-ups : both from a business point of view and in terms of new ways to tell stories and satisfy readers who want always more.
Study tour participants will have the chance to directly discuss with start-up managers… and potentially partner up with them in the near future.
Monday 29 November
Introductory Working Dinner
16h00 - 18h00 = Arrival of participants in New York – hotel check-in (2 nights)
19h00 – 22h00 = working dinner with John Landmann, deputy managing editor,
The New York Times, and Gloria Brown Anderson, Vice President, International and Editorial Development, The New York Times Syndicate (to be confirmed). Strategic presentations and first brain-storming on journalism, technology and partnerships.
Tuesday 30 November
How big media groups partner with start-ups
09h00-11h30 = Google News, Google Maps... and other tools
During our visit, we will learn how Google is working with traditional publishers, and how your newsroom can maximize its exposure through Google tools. Some of the topics covered will include:
- best practices for content (including subscription content)
- new formats for presenting articles, such as Fast Flip and Living Stories
- ways to tap into citizen-captured news video through YouTube Direct
- methods for using Google Maps to improve storytelling.
Speakers: Josh Cohen, Senior Business Product Manager at Google, and Steve Grove, Head of News at YouTube (to be confirmed).
Tour of the Google facilities.
12h30 – 13h30 = working lunch with Jim Roberts, editor of digital news, New York Times and also a ”System Editor”, a new position in the newspaper concerning the use of databases in quality journalism (to be confirmed).
14h00-16h00 = visit of The New York Times
We will visit the Times’ building in Times Square, tour its spacious newsroom and discover its latest innovative projects.
Special session with Michael Zimbalist, VP, Research & Development Operations: What will the news look like in 2020 for newsrooms and their readers? (to be confirmed).
16h30-18h00 = visit of AOL, Patch and Seed services
Patch is a hyperlocal news platform that operates local news sites for 41 small towns and communities in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts & Connecticut.
Seed is AOL's open content submission platform where professional writers, photographers and others can submit their content for publication on AOL's platforms.
20h00 = working dinner with Jeff Mignon and Nancy Wang of 5W Mignon Media. 5W is working with papers on both sides of the Atlantic, helping them adapt to local media transformations. Jeff and Nancy will give you an idea of how to improve your paper’s digital offerings.
Wednesday 1 December
The tour of the latest New York start-ups
8h30 – 11h30 = visit some of the most relevant start-ups for news production.
Twitter does not need an introduction - within just a few years, it has become a tool used by journalists for covering live events and communicating with their ‘followers.’ We will ask Twitter managers how they foresee 21st century journalism with immediate blogging tools.
Foursquare is the leading location aware mobile social networking site. It works with several major publications.
Flowing Media is a data visualization company that creates interactive graphics to engage a mass audience and provides real-time displays of social media streams.
12h00-13h30 = lunch with Jeff Jarvis, director of the Interactive Journalism Program at the City University of New York (CUNY). Jeff is one of America’s leading media strategists, working with news organizations around the world. He has helped build CUNY’s Interactive Journalism Program and developed the “New Business Models for News” project. You can find his blog at www.buzzmachine.com
13h30 – 15h30 = Multimedia storytelling session at CUNY.
Presentations:
- MediaStorm's online publication is focused on multimedia storytelling. Learn what skills and people are required to take multimedia journalism to the next level.
- Magnum In Motion ,founded in 2004, is the multimedia digital studio of Magnum Photos. In Motion assembles visual narratives for online and offline platforms.
- Mochila is an online marketplace for syndicated content from hundreds of the world’s newspapers and news organisations.
17h00–19h30 = flight to Chicago. Check-into hotel (2 nights)
Dinner at the hotel with Martha Stone, Director of the Shaping the Future of the Newspaper project (SFN) within WAN-IFRA.
Thursday 2 December
Tour of the latest Chicago start-ups
9h00 – 12h00 = Chicago Tribune : newsroom organisation, latest partnerships & latest developments in hyperlocal news
Meetings with: Gerould Kern, editor-in-chief; Bill Adee, director of digital; Brad Moore, vice president, Targeted Media, Tribune Media Group (to be confirmed).
Visit of the Chicago Tribune newsroom. Discussion about Triblocal.com & RedEye.
12h30 – 13h30 = lunch with Robb Montgomery, multimedia journalist and consultant
14h00 – 18h30 = visit some of the most relevant start-ups for news production:
- EveryBlock filters an assortment of hyperlocal news by location so people can keep track of what’s happening on their block, neighborhood and all over their city.
- Meeting with Adrian Holovaty, pioneer of "journalism via computer programming".
- ChicagoNow is a hyperlocal blogs network that offers readers 350 blogs written by community journalists based in Chicago, with each covering niche topics from across the city. The bloggers are paid $5 for every 1000 local page views.
- The Chicago News Cooperative – a non-profit news project - was launched by James O’Shea, former editor of the Los Angeles Times. The site produces public-interest journalism and partners with the New York Times as well as a local public TV station.
- Legacy.com, founded in 1998, is an online media company that collaborates with around 900 newspapers in North America, Europe and Australia to provide ways for readers to express condolences and share remembrances of loved ones.
20h00 = dinner with Mike Smith, Director of the Media Management Center at Northwestern University. He will introduce the next day’s visits and his vision of ‘journalism of the future.’
Friday 3 December
Visit to the laboratories of 21st century journalism
09h00 – 12h00 = The Readership Institute and journalism laboratories.
Morning hosted by Mike Smith, Director of the Media Management Center at Northwestern University. He will talk about the Center’s ongoing research and how editors should be thinking about audiences. Update on entrepreneurial journalism in the Chicago area.
12h30 – 14h00 = working lunch with Professor Rich Gordon, Northwestern associate director of digital media at the journalism school.
14h00 – 15h30 = Study tour wrap-up discussion with young journalists and developers about future of journalism projects.
Transportation to the airport... or a weekend in Chicago.
Working language: English
Fees / Prix / Preise
For members:
EUR 5600 + VAT
For non-members:
EUR 6800 + VAT
Early bird registration until the 10 September
Member Price EUR 4800 + VAT
Non Member Price EUR 5900 + VAT
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