Newsy.com: Multi-Perspective Online Video News Service [Print This Page]
- Time: 11:40 a.m.-Noon
- Date: Friday, September 12
- Place: Neff Auditorium, 204 Neff Hall
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We live in an increasingly global and networked world - economically, politically and socially. To stay informed and understand a variety of viewpoints, global business people and citizens require access to multi-perspective news. Learn how Newsy.com monitors, synthesizes and presents the world's news coverage by using an innovative combination of advanced technologies and human editorial perspective. In partnership with the Missouri School of Journalism (and based directly across the street), Newsy offers its media company customers convenient and efficient multi-perspective news analysis, comparisons and insights.
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Presenter: Jim Spencer
President
Newsy.com
Jim Spencer, MA '91, has focused on the intersection of media and technology throughout his career. Previously, he was managing partner of the Media Convergence Group, a founding vice president of Ask Jeeves, general manager of the news and information channels at AOL, director of strategic partnerships for NBC and MSNBC and general manager of new media and technology at Multimedia, Inc. Spencer earned his Master of Arts from the Missouri School of Journalism and his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from New York University's Tisch School of Film.
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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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