Events matching tag "journalism"
Saturday, March 8
People from all facets of the sports media world get together to discuss this constantly changing industry. All the tools, tips, to-dos and best practices in one place during SXSW. This session is part of the brand new …
Intermediate
Presenters
Andrew McNeill, Dave Abbott
The tech story of 2013 – the PRISM revelations and their fallout – wasn't broken by technology journalists. Why was that? Are most tech reporters too wrapped up in simple tasks like rewriting press releases about new app…
Intermediate
Presenters
Alexia Tsotsis, Jemima Kiss, Kara Swisher, Martin Bryant
Sunday, March 9
Great journalism can take many forms: a deeply reported investigative piece, a captivating yarn, a compelling story that starts a real discussion. The content and medium may differ, but the impact does not. What about t…
Intermediate
Presenters
M Scott Havens
In just over two years, The New York Times’s Op-Docs has become one of the most successful destinations for online short films, releasing more than 100 short documentaries (including “Notes on Blindness,” SXSW 2014 short…
Intermediate
Presenters
Elaine McMillion Sheldon, Jason Spingarn-Koff
Owen Thomas is the editor-in-chief of ReadWrite, one of the most widely respected and read technology sites on the Web. But before he got there, he spent 17 years working in the trenches of technology journalism, from th…
Beginner
Presenters
Owen Thomas
Why do crazy stories that aren't true get so much traction, while really important actual facts sink into oblivion? Algorithms influence almost all the information you consume, from news stories, to social media updates,…
Advanced
Presenters
Gilad Lotan, Kelly McBride
BuzzFeed's rapid rise to ubiquity -- including 60 million monthly unique visitors -- was built on memes and user-generated content with original reporting content built-in. How can nonprofit news outlets sustain or scal…
Intermediate
Presenters
Adam Soclof, Jake Batsell, Joshua Benton, Nicole Hudson
Monday, March 10
Thanks to the Internet, the proliferation of low-cost publishing has changed what journalistic integrity means to digital content, affecting the quality—and ethical integrity—of online “news.” With bad—and wrong—online …
Advanced
Presenters
Gail Marie 2, Kristina Eastham, Mike Schmidt, Robert Hernandez
On April 23, 2012, the Syrian Electronic Army hacked the Twitter account of the Associated Press and posted a tweet proclaiming that President Obama had been injured in a terrorist attack. The stock market took an immedi…
Intermediate
Presenters
Austin Powell, Cole Stryker, Parmy Olson, Tom Cochran
Political fact-checking is expanding around the world, with new ventures popping up in South Africa, Australia, Germany, Chile and many other countries. But as the websites take root, the fact-checkers are facing new pre…
Intermediate
Presenters
Bill Adair, Martin Kotynek, Mona Chalabi, Peter Fray
All of a sudden, the distinction between publishers and platforms on the web is hazy. Twitter is a publisher now? Gawker, a platform? Figuring out the difference reveals a lot about how content is made and consumed on th…
Advanced
Presenters
Zach Seward
Dan Fletcher was Facebook's managing editor and the co-founder of BEACON, and Tanja Hollander has been traveling the country photographing each of her Facebook friends as part of a photography project, "Are You Really My…
Intermediate
Presenters
Dan Fletcher, Tanja Hollander
A virtual conversation with Glenn Greenwald on the future of journalism, civil liberties and politics, with Micah Sifry of Personal Democracy Media.…
Intermediate
Presenters
Glenn Greenwald, Micah Sifry
A decade ago, the only communication a reader could have with a print magazine was either a bland phone call to customer service or a letter to the editor, which were seldom responded to. Thanks to the mass adoption of s…
Intermediate
Presenters
Elizabeth Holmes, Eva Chen, Jane Larkworthy, Stella Bugbee
At Upworthy, Eli Pariser has designed a hella fast growing news site, using careful curation, point of view and crafty headline arts to engage people in serious news. We'll talk about the nature of viralness, feedback a…
Intermediate
Presenters
David Carr, Eli Pariser
Tuesday, March 11
The Texas Tribune deals with government data ranging from thousands to millions of rows and every data set has one thing in common: there's next to nothing in common. This talk shows you the process for consuming govern…
Beginner
Presenters
Travis Swicegood
Magazine people think media consumers want carefully prepared packages filled with stories and photographs: in other words, magazines. But newspaper owners and record label executives thought the same thing about their p…
Intermediate
Presenters
Evan Ratliff, Jake Silverstein, Mangesh Hattikudur
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