SPEECHES AND PANELS
2002 EVENTS
- Served as moderator for a panel ("Convergence: Singing the Multi-Media
Medley. Or the Blues?") At the 13th Annual Interactive Newspapers Conference
in San Jose, February 2002. Panel members included Dan Finnigan, President,
Knight Ridder Interactive; David D. Hiller, President, Tribune Interactive;
Bruce McCormack, President, CanWest Interactive; Chris Schroeder, CEO &
Publisher, Washington Post Newsweek Interactive and Roy Wadia, Director of
Integration, CNN.
- Served as judge for monthly SND's Website Awards Program.
2001 EVENTS
- Spoke on a panel ("Consult the Consultants: Gain Insight into Industry
Trends and What They Mean for Public Broadcasting") for a general session
at the 2001 NPR/PBS Online
Summit. Other panelists included representatives from consulting firms
McKinsey and Surgency, Washington, DC Feb 26, 2001.
- Served as judge for NPR/DEI (Development Exchange Inc.) Awards for excellence
in public radio websites.
- Spoke on a panel ("The
First Amendment Online") at the Freedom Forum's First Amendment Center.
The event examined a variety of first amendment issues catalyzed by the Internet
and new technologies. Other panelists included representatives from The New
York Times, Chicago Tribune New York and the legal and academic professions,
New York, March 22, 2001.
- Spoke on a panel ("Survivor:
Online News, Commentary and 'Zine Culture") at the Silicon Alley
Down But Not Out Conference sponsored by Fordham University's Center for Communication
and Ironminds. The event also served as a benefit for the National Foundation
for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), New York, June 19, 2001
- Spoke on a panel ("The
Web: Death of the Word?") At the conference celebrating the grand
opening of George Washington University's new Media and Public Affairs building.
Other panel members included representatives from CNN.com, Inside.com and
Audible.
- Spoke on a panel ("The
Newsroom of the Future") at the annual Online News Association Conference
and Awards at the University of California Berkley's Northgate Graduate School
of School of Journalism, Berkley.
2000 Events
- Served as moderator for a panel ("Creating Dynamic Multimedia Sites:
Moving Beyond Words to Create Better Journalism") at the first annual
Online News Association (ONA) held at Columbia University School of Journalism,
New York, December 2000. Panel members included multimedia editors from MSNBC
and the Washington Post.
- Featured speaker ("New Media in Your Newsroom: Editorial Confronts
the Business World") at the Norwegian Press Institute, Fredrikstad, Norway,
September 2000.
- Spoke on a panel ("Online Newspaper Skills and Training") at the
annual convention of the Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communications
(AEJMC), Phoenix, August 2000.
- Served as moderator for a panel ("Filling the Net") at Columbia
University, Graduate School of Journalism, New York, June 2000. Panel members
included executives from Feedroom, APBNews, CourtTV and Fathom.com.
- Spoke on a panel ("Developing Member Station Web Initiatives")
at the annual Public Radio Conference (PRC) in Orlando, May 2000. Other panel
members included managers of Public Interactive, Audible and National Public
Radio.
- Served as a moderator for a panel ("The Online Magazine - Beyond What's
Cool and What's Hot") at the annual Folio Mid-West Magazine Show, Chicago,
2000. Panel members included executives from Brtitannica.com and Tribune Media
Services.
- Spoke on a panel ("The IT Revolution: Women, Work and Social Change")
at a conference on Women, Technology and Innovation at Mount Holyoke College,
South Hadley, Massachusetts, February 2000.
- Spoke on a panel ("E-Commerce and the Media") at the European
Union Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri February 2000.
- Served as a moderator for a panel ("Technological Innovations")
at the annual Editor & Publisher Interactive Newspapers Conference, February
2000. Panel members included executives from Tribune, Gen3 Partners and the
Boston Globe and Indianapolis Star Tribune.
1999 Events:
- Served as a moderator for a panel ("The Interactive Online Magazine")
at the annual Folio Magazine Show, New York, October 1999. Panel members included
executives and editors from IWon, Penthouse and Sportsforwoman.com.
- Spoke on a panel ("Interactive Journalism Training and Practice")
at the annual convention of the Association
of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communications (AEJMC), New Orleans,
August 1999.
- Spoke on a panel ("New Story Forms, Not, Online Journalism") at
the Online Journalism Symposium at the University of Texas, School of Journalism,
April 1999.
- Served as a moderator for a panel ("Careers in New Media") at
the Learning Annex, New York, March 1999. Panel members included executives
from Razorfish, Blue Hypermedia and MTV.
1998 Events:
- Featured speaker ("Words For The 21st Century ") at Webgrrls,
New York, September 1998.
- Featured speaker ("Redesigning The New York Times on the Web")
at the annual meeting of the Society of Newspaper
Design (SND), Philadelphia, September 1998.
- Spoke on a panel ("Newsroom Integration Strategies") at the annual.
Newspaper Association of America's (NAA) Connections Conference, Orlando,
June 1998.
- Spoke to a gathering ("The New York Times on the Web as an Educational
Tool") of the advisory board of The New York Times College Program New
York, April 1998.
- Spoke on a panel ("Creating Collaborative Teams") at Seybold/Wired
Magazine Seminars, New York, March 1998.
- Participated on the "Commission on Competence" and spoke at a
day long conference sponsored by The Nieman Foundation at Harvard, The Project
in Excellence in Journalism and funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts at The
Poynter Institute, St. Petersburg, February 1988. Conference and Commission
members included executives and academics from CNN, ABC News, The Oregonian,
New York University, Indiana University, Minnesota Public Radio, Detroit Free
Press, The New York Times and others.
- Spoke on a panel ("Convergence: The Electronic Edition") at the
Center for Communication, New York University, Stern School of Business, New
York, February 1998. Panel members included executives from National Public
Radio (NPR), CNN, Hearst Magazines and NBC.
- Spoke on a panel ("The Evolution of Content: Build vs. Buy and Creating
Effective Communities") at Editor & Publisher's annual Interactive
Newspaper Conference, Seattle, February 1998.
1997 Events:
- Featured speaker ("The Multimedia Content Development Process")
at the Basque Regional Technology Infrastructure Development Conference, Bilboa,
Spain, November 1997.
- Featured speaker ("Newspaper Designers Meet Their Broadcast Brethren
in Cyberspace") at the Society for Newspaper Design (SND) annual conference
in San Diego, October 1997.
- Featured speaker ("In Praise of Shovelware: Creating Compelling Content")
at Editor & Publisher's "Editorial Issues on the Web" Conference,
New York, August 1997.
1996 Events:
- Featured speaker ("Developing Topic Oriented Web Sites") at the
IFRA, INES "Beyond the Printed Word" Conference, Geneva, Switzerland,
October 1996.
- Featured speaker ("Ideas are Cheap: Beyond the Myth of The Newspaper
Web Site") at the Newspaper Association
of American's (NAA) Annual Connections Conference, Chicago, August 1996.
- Speaker ("Website Production Hints") at the annual Interactive
Newspaper Network (INN) Conference, St. Petersburg, Florida, April 1996.
- Featured speaker ("Developing Newspaper Web Sites") at the annual
New York Times Senior Editors Conference, Sarasota, November 1996.