New Models of Journalism in the Internet Age [Print This Page]
- Time: 9:00-10:15 a.m.
- Date: Thursday, Sept. 11
- Place: Neff Auditorium, 204 Neff Hall
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In a time when independent reporting is under threat because traditional newsrooms are being stripped of resources, alternative sources of serious journalism are springing up across the country. Four journalistic entrepreneurs are leading the way in creating alternatives to the traditional broadcast or ink-on-paper news media. As the search continues for journalistic and business models that make sense for the 21st century, here are four possible -- and promising -- answers.
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Moderator: George Kennedy
Professor Emeritus
Missouri School of Journalism
George Kennedy is a professor emeritus at the Missouri School of Journalism, where he was managing editor of the Columbia Missourian, the School's daily community newspaper serving as a teaching lab for students, for almost 12 years. Kennedy also served as chairman of the editorial department and associate dean. With academic interests that center on journalistic practice and the future of the profession, Kennedy has written articles that have appeared in The American Editor and Columbia Journalism Review. He has co-authored three textbooks on reporting and writing in addition to editing What Good Is Journalism? How Reporters and Editors Are Saving America's Way of Life. As a scholar, he served as a Fulbright lecturer in New Zealand and a visiting professor in Slovakia and Spain. Prior to joining the Missouri Journalism faculty in 1974, Kennedy worked for 10 years at daily newspapers in Delaware and Florida.
Discussion Leaders
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Margaret Wolf Freivogel
Founder and Editor
St. Louis Beacon
Margaret Wolf Freivogel is the founding editor of the St. Louis Beacon, a nonprofit online news publication that aims to serve and engage citizens by creating a distinctive news medium in which users can play an active role. Freivogel worked for 34 years as a reporter, editor and Washington correspondent for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. As Sunday editor, Freivogel created and ran the Post-Dispatch's NewsWatch news analysis section, in addition to leading the paper's creation of standards for ethics and sourcing. She held various positions at the Post-Dispatch during her tenure, serving as senior editor for nation/world, projects, sports and features. As the paper's Washington, D.C., correspondent and assistant bureau chief, Freivogel pursued groundbreaking reporting on women in politics and family issues. Her numerous awards include the National Press Club Washington Correspondent's Award and the American Bar Association's Gavel Award.
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Joel Kramer
CEO and Founding Editor
Minnpost
Joel Kramer is the founding editor of Minnpost, a nonprofit journalism enterprise that publishes MinnPost.com and MinnPost in Print. The organization focuses on high quality journalism, analysis and commentary representing many points of view. After stints with Science Magazine, Newsday and the Buffalo (N.Y.) Courier-Express, Kramer joined the Minneapolis Star Tribune as editor, where he twice edited investigative series that won Pulitzer Prizes. He was the president and publisher until the paper sold to McClatchy in 1998, after which he became a senior fellow at the University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Kramer is also the founder of a think tank called Growth & Justice, which focuses on Minnesota state policy to create sustainable economic growth. He now serves as chairman of its board.
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Elizabeth Osder
Principal
Osder Group
Elizabeth Osder, MA '94, is principal of the Osder Group, a consultancy specializing in social media, new product development, and Internet business strategy for news and information companies navigating the changing landscape of interactive media. Osder has more than 15 years of hands-on experience leading media, marketers and publishing brands in the interactive space. Prior to consulting, Osder was senior director of product at Yahoo!, where she was responsible for local, search and social media products for Yahoo!'s global news and information sites. During her tenure, Yahoo! News became the Internet's No. 1 news destination, serving 40 million-plus unique users a month. Osder also launched social media initiatives such as "You Witness News." Her work at Yahoo! Media Group was preceded by her role as director of product development for Yahoo! Search Marketing (YSM), where she helped develop Content Match, Yahoo!'s Publisher Network and many of YSM's publisher services. As global managing partner for iXL/Scient's media and entertainment practice, Osder's clients included NPR, the Washington Post, News Corp., the Financial Times, Time Warner and Applied Semantics/Google. Prior to iXL/Scient, she served as director of product development and content development editor for The New York Times Digital, where she helped launch the Times' Web site in 1995 and redesigned it in 1998. Osder is a founding board member of the Online News Association and serves on the board of the Missouri Publishers Association, among others. Over the past 15 years, she has received numerous awards and honors for creative programming and product development innovations.
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Jon Sawyer
Executive Director
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Jon Sawyer is the founding director of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a nonprofit organization founded in 2006 that funds independent reporting with the intent of raising the standard of media coverage of global affairs. In its first two years the Center has funded 40 reporting projects in three dozen countries, partnering with major newspapers and magazines. Sawyer was previously the Washington bureau chief for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for which he reported from some five dozen countries. His work was selected three years in a row for the National Press Club's award for best foreign reporting. He also has been honored by the Overseas Press Club, the Inter-American Press Association, Investigative Reporters and Editors, and the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
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Paul Steiger
President and Editor in Chief
ProPublica
Paul Steiger is the president and editor in chief of ProPublica, an independent, nonprofit newsroom founded in 2007 that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. ProPublica's 28 full-time reporters and editors are the largest staff in American journalism devoted solely to investigative reporting. Steiger is the former managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, where he worked for 25 years. He also spent 15 years at the Los Angeles Times. A former chair of the Pulitzer Prize board, he currently chairs the Committee to Protect Journalists and is a trustee of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Steiger has won many awards from top institutions, such as the World Leadership Forum, American Society of Newspaper Editors, National Press Foundation, Missouri School of Journalism, Columbia University School of Journalism and University of California-Los Angeles.
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About the Futures Forum
Top journalists, advertisers and thought leaders will lead numerous interactive sessions during the Sept. 11 Futures Forum, a day of cutting-edge discussions about the next century of journalism. Ethics, convergence and politics are just a few of the many hot topics that will be explored in this diverse program dedicated to challenging industry thinking and visualizing possibilities for the future. Sessions will be 75 minutes long and held concurrently with others on the schedule. Full schedules will be available during on-site check in during the Sept. 10-12 celebration.
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