EPIC 2014: Progress Report on the Vision of the Last Decade in Media History [Print This Page]
- Time: 9:40-10:00 a.m.
- Date: Friday, September 12
- Place: Fred W. Smith Forum, Reynolds Journalism Institute
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EPIC 2014: Four Years Later - While working at The Poynter Institute in 2004, Matt Thompson and Robin Sloan created EPIC 2014, a vision of the last decade in media history -- set ten years in the future. The video, intended to convey to journalists how technological advancements and media consumption habits were affecting the information industry, found a massive viral audience online and garnered mentions in The New York Times, USA Today, the Atlantic Monthly, the Guardian and other news sources across the globe. Now, four years after the creation of EPIC, Googlezon still hasn't happened, Apple's wifiPod was two years late, and Friendster's only hot in Indonesia. In this session, Thompson will take stock of where we stand and where he thinks we're headed, and briefly preview the research he'll be conducting as one of the incoming 2008-2009 Donald W. Reynolds Fellows at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute.
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Presenter: Matt Thompson
2008-2009 Donald W. Reynolds Fellow
Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute
Matt Thompson is a member of the 2008-2009 inaugural class of Fellows at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism. As deputy Web editor for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, he led the creation of the arts-and-entertainment Web site Vita.mn, the winner of the 2007 and 2008 Edgie Awards for Best Entertainment Site. Before joining the Star Tribune, Thompson won first- and third-place Best of the West awards as The Fresno Bee's first online reporter. While pursuing a Naughton Fellowship for Online Reporting and Writing at The Poynter Institute in 2004, he was the co-creator of the viral Flash speculative fiction short EPIC 2014. Thompson currently sits on Poynter's National Advisory Board.
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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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