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NewsTools2008 session notes collection page

Wednesday Events starting at 4:15 p.m.

  • Value Network of Journalism
  • Disruption and Reinvention

Thursday, May 1 – Possibilities Day: Explore/design ideas/projects

9:30 a.m. sessions

Use the links below to click to reports of Thursday breakout sessions at NewsTools2008.

  • How to serve and market to lower-income people — Maurreen Skowran
  • Building the audience: What if they gave a blog and nobody came? — Kate Fox — TK
  • How would you improve twitter four citizen journalism? — Russell Okamoto — TK
  • Building, transforming through rich, digital, personal storytelling tools — Michelle Ferrier — TK
  • RSS, CPM: Please explain all the jargon — Dan Gillmor

11 a.m. sessions

  • What can hundreds of writers/readers achieve? — Andrius Kulikauskas — TK
  • Using a wiki for journalist collaboration — Sheldon Rampton — TK
  • What is community response to unpaid, user-generated content? — Josh Wolf — TK
  • ReelChanges.org public demo — Hal Plotkin — TK
  • Tools, practices of collaboration for community online/off — brainstorming — Kaliya Hamlin — TK
  • Which tools are getting in your way? — Amy Gahran — TK
  • How to mobile student populations for amazing journalism — Mike Melillo — TK
  • Can EBAY serve as a model to solicit donations for quality public-interest journalism? — John Boyer — TK

Luncheon discussion: Dailyme.com

  • Eduardo Hauser explains DailyMe.com — TK

1:30 p.m. sessions

  • What are best practices for online video? — Wayne McPhail — TK
  • News Discovery: Visual Experiments, gaming, etc. — Josh Schwartzman — TK
  • Evolution of the information architect — Dawn Buie
  • How to find funding — Jose Zamora — TK
  • Collaborating with classsroom students for next-generation journalism — Marty Steffens — TK
  • Audio hacks for podcasters and broadcasters — Jon Gordon — TK
  • E-books: When? How? — Jesse McDougall — TK
  • Collaboration: Journalism startups and funding models — Len Witt — TK
  • What tools do journalists need to tell important stories? — Ellyn Angelotti — TK
  • The grey areas of one-man-band journalism — Melissa Korn — TK
  • New tools for conversation and engagement — Topix — TK

3:00 p.m. sessions

  • What training do journalists need? — Ellyn Angelotti
  • How do we leverage/share tech infrastructure? — Mike Melillo — TK
  • Partnership with public broadcast — Mark Furst — TK

4:30 p.m. — Thursday afternoon wrapup session

  • Open ID/VRM/iCards — Cool stuff for identity — Kaliya Hamlin — TK
  • How are tech tools changing how we think/communicate and definie what it means to be human? — Michelle Ferriere — TK
  • CMS for newspaper to web production — Dawn Buie — TK

Download MP3 audio of most of the Thursday afternoon wrapup circle at NewsTools2008-Yahoo on May 1, 2008. The last few minutes were lost because the recorder battery went dead. (Duration: 34 minutes, 48 seconds / File Size:16.71 MB)

7:00 p.m. — VillageSoup.com presentation — Richard Anderson


Friday, May 2 – Design-Build Day: What’s your Next Step?

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8:30 a.m. — Sunlight Labs

9:00 a.m. — NewsTrust

10 a.m. — Agenda Setting (AUDIO)

10:30 a.m. sessions, all TK

  • Imagine no advertising — Michael Stoll
  • How to create a shared network of video conversations — Wayne MacPhail
  • Building community media news bureaus that provide targeted in-depth video reporting — Josh Wolf
  • Patchwood identity-creating digital personas for transparency — Michelle Ferrier
  • Getting 100 journalists employed — nationally and globally — Len Witt
  • Building a federation of community journalism platforms and movements — Jose, Mark, Benjamim, Mike Melillo
  • The People Speak film project — Tom Stites and Melissa
  • Newstrust: Making news literacy tools better — Fabrice Florin, David Cohn, Kaizar Campwala
  • Turning infotainment on its head — Teri Gray
  • Story Network design/build — Rod Chatham

1:30 p.m. sessions

  • Non-profit building blocks and open-source technology — Josh White — TK
  • Reporting on methadone deaths — Maurreen Skowran — Cancelled due to lack of interest.
  • How can we help new-media teams quickly resolve their most common legal concerns — Pat Reilly — TK
  • How to stop genocide in black America? — Andrius K. — TK
  • Drupal Day: Low-budget portal and civic-data mashups — Benjamin Melancon/Drupal Team — TK
  • How can courageous truth-telling journalism help us move from Empire to genuine community? — Carol Brouillet
  • Free self-sustaining access to web and emerging tech. for remote global communities — Lynn Fitch — TK
  • Web 101: Standards and open source — how it works and impacts society; journalistic possibilities — Kaliya Hamlin — TK

3:00 p.m. sessions, all TK

  • Bringing it home: Cit-J’s and mainstream together — Beth Lawton/David Cohn
  • OneBlue.TV: How to use new tech to launch and sustain a global site for intercultural dialog — John Boyer
  • Missing Voices: Ensuring diversity of voices in a multimedia world — Teresa Puente
  • Mass communication for collaboration — A fully open network/PWGD.org — Benjamin Melancon
  • Drupal Day: Archive and mobile video, Google news/Mechanics and policy — Kierna /Mark B/Drupal Team
  • Napster: Cradle of the Revolution? — David Rubinson
  • Conference communication: How to harness the energy between events and have it build beyond the same people — Persephone Miel
  • Faceted information design — Jon Garfunkel

4:30 p.m. — Closing “What’s Next” Session (AUDIO)


Saturday, May 3, Bringing it on Home

Purpose: Provide the time and space to:

  • Take the NewsTools2008 design/build work further
  • Share concept/design/build results with others
  • Connect with more regional working journalists

Continental breakfast and networking 9:30 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.

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(from left): Gorney, Overholser, Talbot, Miel, Aguilar

KEYNOTE: Sustaining journalism: A status report

Read a summary or listen to streaming audio or download an MP3 podcast of Saturday morning’s keynote panel.

Journalism That Matters — What’s next?

Read notes of a roundtable discussion about the next projects and events planned by the Journalism That Matters collaborative.


Project work continues 10:30 a.m.- 3:00 p.m.

  • Those NewsTools2008 participants who still have work to do on their concept/design/build projects from Thursday and Friday can resume their work at the Domain Hotel. This projects, initiatives and seedling companies can continue hacking.

Lunch will be available for from 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. There will also be snacks, coffee, tea and juices available mid-morning and mid-afternoon.

Snacks and networking 3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Briefings and the next steps 3:30 p.m.- 4:30 p.m.

  • At day’s end, participants will all gather for final briefings and next-step announcements from the NewsTools2008 project workers.

In addition to the NewsTools2008 audience, a larger journalist audience will be involved. Today represents a joining of two rivers involving both journalists and technologists. In parallel to the closing day of NewsTools2008…

In the morning, individuals, groups, organizations and companies will “expose” their info-tech ideas to interested NewsTools2008 participants and to SPJ one-day attendees.