Current TV: Getting Current with the Young Adult Audience [Print This Page]
- Time: 11:00-11:20 a.m.
- Date: Friday, Sept. 12
- Place: Fred W. Smith Forum, Reynolds Journalism Institute
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CurrentTV and current.com, founded by former U.S. Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore, is an Emmy Award-winning open-source news and information network that connects young adults with what is going on in their world, in their voice and from their point of view. Current is now seen in more than 58 million households in the United States, United Kingdom and Italy. College Current is an interactive, outreach and experiential education initiative that encourages students to get involved in a global conversation with Current. Current's Amy Grill will share the network's unique storytelling approach, which includes viewer-created content (VC2) for news and advertising. Also involved in the conversation will be some of the 60 Missouri Journalism students who have been vlogging from the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing for Current.
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Presenter: Amy Grill
Director, College and Universities
Current TV
Amy Grill is the director of college and events for Current TV. Before launching the College Outreach program at Current TV in 2007, Grill built the student television network at Emerson College in Boston and served as the faculty adviser to several programming projects while at Emerson, including the Kevin Bright Workshop. She has worked in various capacities in network and cable television in New York and public television in Boston. Grill just finished directing her first feature-length documentary, Speaking in Code.
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About the Technology Summit
The Technology Summit is an action-packed exhibition of the ideas, trends, tools, technologies and companies that are leading the way into 21st-century journalism. Leading technology experts and industry pioneers will preside over interactive presentations divided into three tracks: Digital Storytelling, Disruptive Technologies and Web 3.0 Economics. Guests will have the chance to see new technologies at work and visit with those who are shaping tomorrow's media.
Technology Summit Advisers
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Kim Garretson
General Partner
Realist Ventures & Advisory Services
Blog: Realist
Kim Garretson, BJ '73, is a general partner in Realist Ventures & Advisory Services. He advises venture capital firms, early-stage consumer digital media companies, retailers and media companies on disruptive innovation. Previously, Garretson was the liaison to the venture capital industry for Best Buy's Corporate Strategy & Innovation division. Prior to that, Garretson co-founded NOVO Media Group, which was the fourth-largest digital agency at its sale to Leo Burnett in 2001. Garretson also has been a partner in the upper Midwest's largest marketing and public relations agency. He began his career as a senior editor and technology columnist for Better Homes and Gardens.
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Mike McKean
Director of the Futures Lab
Reynolds Journalism Institute
Mike McKean is the Futures Lab director at the Reynolds Journalism Institute and a professor at the Missouri School of Journalism, where he has taught for 22 years. McKean created the School's convergence journalism program and chaired the convergence journalism faculty from 2005-2008. He is a leader in teaching with technology at the local, national and international levels. Winner of the MU's Innovator Award, McKean is chairing the campus Information Technology Committee; coordinating partnerships with Apple, Inc., AT&T and Adobe Systems; and helping establish convergence curricula at Moscow State University in Russia and Shantou University in China. McKean also has chaired the radio-TV news faculty at Missouri, served as Web director at KOMU-TV and news director of KBIA-FM. Before joining the School of Journalism, he was managing editor of KTRH NewsRadio in Houston and assistant news director at the Missourinet in Jefferson City.
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