Thursday, April 28, 2016
Ryerson Journalism Research Centre
Testifying to the urgent interest in professional renewal among journalism educators, more than one hundred people from Canada, the United States, Europe, and Australia attended the conference. The papers published here represent a reasonable cross-section of the issues discussed. The authors advance different ideas about where journalism education should go from here; at times they…
“Rather than look to large tech platforms to propose the future of news, perhaps there is a great opportunity for news organizations themselves to rethink those assumptions. After all, it is publishers who have the most to gain from innovation around their core products. So what might news look like if we start to rethink…
“This is a course in listening to a community: understanding and empathizing with its needs and learning how to help a community share its own knowledge. We will talk to ambassadors from communities of various definitions?—?geographic (neighborhoods, towns), demographic (ethnic groups, age groups), interest (topics such as cancer, parenting, or sports), and business (organized around…
“The news industry ‘has gone for years without needing to examine who its audience is or what they want,’ according to McClatchy’s Damon Kiesow, and digital-savvy readers have different expectations than their predecessors. So one of the key tasks for news outlets is first to develop better understandings of their own audiences: how those audiences…
1:30 p.m.-3 p.m. Thursday, April 28 Disruption in the media industry, as reflected in rapidly changing business models and news gathering and distribution practices, has been significantly driven by the breakneck pace of technological advances. Alex Watson (Telegraph Media Group) and Retha Hill (Arizona State University) lead a discussion on how emerging technologies have shaped their work and their…
1:30 p.m.-3 p.m. Thursday, April 28 Media scholars Kim Schrøder (Roskilde University) and Philip Napoli (Rutgers University) lead this discussion on journalism’s relationship with what Jay Rosen (2006) famously called “the people formerly known as the audience.” They will explore how the Internet and emerging technologies continue to transform conceptions about the news audience and how it interacts with journalism content. As principal investigator for…
9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Thursday, April 28 Over the past decade, technology has driven profound structural changes in news audience behaviours, as people consume information about current events in a wide-ranging variety of places and forms. These changing behaviours precipitate changes in production and distribution of news, with journalists and others collaborating in the news-production process…
1:30 p.m.-3 p.m. Thursday, April 28 As a function of new conceptions of the audience and the importance of technology (as above) journalists’ work functions are no longer covered by descriptors such as reporter, editor and producer; today’s range of job titles include product manager, audience developer, communities editor, and web/mobile developer. Carrie Brown (City…
3 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 28 In the wake of the day’s discussions, Carrie Brown (City University of New York) and Rich Gordon (Northwestern University) begin the session with reflections on how transformation in news consumption and technological and educational innovation are changing the way we think – or ought to think – about the future of journalism education.…