The Digital Newsbook Project [Print This Page]
- Time: 9:20-9:40 a.m.
- Date: Friday, Sept. 12
- Place: Fred W. Smith Forum, Reynolds Journalism Institute
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Digital Newsbooks hold great potential for publishers. These downloadable eBooks disseminate and archive enterprise/investigative journalism and provide a possible new source of revenue. Roger Fidler, program director for digital publishing at the Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI), will demonstrate the potential of Digital Newsbooks at this session. RJI is producing newsbooks for several members of the Digital Publishing Alliance, an RJI initiative, in order to show the capabilities of this promising new product. The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Las Vegas Review-Journal and Memphis (Tenn.) Commercial Appeal are among the DPA members who have already commissioned RJI to produce Digital Newsbooks.
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Presenter: Roger Fidler
Program Director for Digital Publishing
Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute
Roger Fidler is the program director for digital publishing at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, where he coordinates digital publishing research projects and manages the Digital Publishing Alliance (DPA). He has been at RJI since 2004, when he was named the first Donald W. Reynolds Fellow. Fidler has been on the leading edge of online and digital publishing development since the late 1970s, and he has served as a journalist and newspaper designer for 34 years. Before joining RJI, he was a tenured professor of journalism in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Kent State University. Previously, Fidler served as director of new media for Knight-Ridder, Inc., and headed the company's Information Design Laboratory in Boulder, Colo. He founded and headed two successful companies and was a member of Knight-Ridder's videotex development team. He served as the first director of design for the company's pioneering consumer online service, Viewtron, from 1979-1983.
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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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