Denuo: Global Agency Media Investments Address "What's Next" for Journalism [Print This Page]
- Time: 9:00-9:20 a.m.
- Date: Friday, Sept. 12
- Place: Neff Auditorium, 204 Neff Hall
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If you think you've finally figured out all you need to know about digital innovation as it rips through the news and information businesses, think again. An entirely new wave of content aggregation and dissemination platforms, person-to-person connection mechanisms and real-time inference tools will quickly replace today's status quo. Tim Hanlon of Denuo embraces these eye-opening and paradigm-shifting opportunities and will introduce you to a few of the more promising new media firms that not only just might help journalism survive, but also flourish in the years ahead.
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Presenter: Tim Hanlon
Executive Vice President/Ventures
Denuo
Tim Hanlon is executive vice president/ventures for Denuo, the futures consulting practice of advertising agency holding company Publicis Groupe, S.A. He is chiefly responsible for the solicitation, negotiation and oversight of the unit's strategic partnership and equity investment activity, focused exclusively on paradigm-changing "new media" platforms and technologies. Hanlon's current role is an outgrowth of his previous work as head of Publicis Groupe Media Ventures and includes formal advisory and directorial positions with more than three dozen start-up companies. Hanlon has more than 15 years of traditional and interactive agency media experience at Frankel in Chicago, Creative Alliance in Louisville, Ky., and for credit card issuer MBNA America in Wilmington, Del. He also has wide-ranging journalism experience, including production and writing stints at CBS News, Sports Illustrated and the Voice of America. Among his many industry recognitions, Hanlon was an inaugural recipient of Interactive Television Today's Leadership in Interactive Television Award in 2004 and was named as one of MEDIA Magazine's "100 People to Know" that same year. His insights into the future of media and advertising are regularly seen in major electronic, print and trade press outlets.
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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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