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Thursday, June 07
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The economy is still the biggest story going, and this workshop will equip you with the story ideas and skills you need to tackle economic stories on any beat. Economic inequality, the foreclosure crisis and joblessness all have social justice themes that resonate with the alt-media audience and lend themselves to long-form stories. Yet, alt-media journalists sometimes shy away from stories with economic angles. Get armed with the tools and understanding you need to tackle economic stories, including those on the labor and housing markets.
Presented by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism.
Speakers:
Marilyn Geewax, NPR and Josh Harkinson, Mother Jones
Marilyn Geewax is NPR's national economics correspondent and an editor of business news for the National Desk. In addition to assigning and editing business stories that are posted on NPR.org, Marilyn is regularly heard discussing economic issues on Tell Me More and Talk of the Nation and Weekend Edition. Her work contributed to NPR's 2011 Edward R. Murrow Award for Hard News for "The Foreclosure Nightmare." Marilyn worked with NPR reporter Chris Arnold on the foreclosure crisis was recognized with a 2009 Heywood Broun Award. Before to coming to NPR 2008, Marilyn was the national economics correspondent for Cox Newspapers' Washington Bureau for nearly a decade. Marilyn served for the Cox flagship paper, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, first as a business reporter and then as a columnist and editorial board member. She got her start as a reported for the Akron Beacon Journal. In 2010, she went to China with a group of journalists to study the economy. From 2001 to 2006, Marilyn taught a business journalism class as an adjunct professor at George Washington University. She was a 1995 Nieman Fellow and studied economics and international relations at Harvard. Marilyn earned a master's degree at Georgetown University, focusing on international economic affairs. She earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from The Ohio State University.
Josh Harkinson is a reporter with
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Professor Jeremy Rue will kick-off with a presentation of the tablet and mobile ecosystem and trends to watch. Then, Helen Berman, president of the Berman Media Sales Institute, will conduct a workshop which will cover selling the benefits of cross-media packages and expanding print sales skills into multi-media environments.
Helen will talk about why and how media salespeople must become marketing subject experts. You will hear how new media has turned marketing on its head, the new sales and marketing funnel, social media's impact on print, how to meet advertiser and agency expectations, and advertising metrics and research.
Speakers:
Jeremy Rue, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and Helen Berman, Berman Media Sales Institute
Jeremy Rue is a lecturer at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He serves in a dual capacity for the school; as a multimedia instructor for the Knight Digital Media Center and as a co-instructor for a Carnegie-Knight funded program called News21. Before teaching, Jeremy previously worked as a multimedia journalist for the Oakland Tribune, where he helped produced Not Just a Number, an immersive interactive project that humanized the historically high 2006 homicide rate in Oakland. The project won Online News Association's Knight Award for Public Service in 2007. Jeremy has also worked as a photojournalist for a number of publications, including The Fresno Bee, The Modesto Bee and the Duluth News-Tribune in Minnesota. He also worked as a reporter for the Selma (Calif.) Enterprise, where he covered city government, courts and crime. Jeremy is the recipient of the 2007 Dorothea Lange Fellowship for his photo documentary work on migrant farm workers in the California Central Valley. He has experience with Adobe Flash/ActionScript, HTML/CSS, JavaScript/AJAX, Unix, PHP and a variety of other scripting languages.
Helen Berman is president of the Berman Media Sales Institute and a brilliant, one-of-a-kind, strategic thinker and problem-solver. With Helen, there’s no cookie-cutter, heard-it-all-before presentation. No jargon. No dull lectures. Instead, Helen Berman steps in and reframes your media sales issues in ways you never considered. With laser-beam precision, she penetrates to the heart of your biggest sales dilemmas, and you get solutions you can act on immediately.
There's more to web traffic than you think. Join analytics specialist Sondra Russell to get really deep into your analytics. Mine them for user behavior, trends, stickiness and find ways to monetize your content and get more traffic in new ways. And it won't be a burden on an already stressed staff. This workshop will be hands-on and tailored to participants.
Speaker:
Sondra Russell, NPR
This look at trends in social media will provide info on best practices across all digital media, how to use different platforms and how all of that helps the weekly product. We'll also include a few tricks and hints, look at good times to post, discuss management of accounts and much more.
Speaker:
Kelly Ferguson, Arkansas Times
Kelly Ferguson is the social and digital media director at The Arkansas Times. Her department currently manages the social media accounts of the newspaper and its affiliated publications. Kelly has a bachelor’s degree in Journalism with minors in both Speech Communication and Theatre Arts from Texas A&M University. She has worked as a reporter and as an editor for more than 15 years in daily newspapers. In 2008, she took on the role of web content coordinator in the marketing department at Tyler Junior College in Tyler, Texas, and created the school’s first social media campaigns. In January 2011, The Arkansas Times recruited Kelly via Twitter to come to Little Rock and build the department there.
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We all know digital distribution channels are the future. But how are we doing with our websites and mobile compared to other legacy media and compared with our peers? Some of the answers are with The Media Audit which has more than 300 media websites selling with its data. In response to increasing interest in web and mobile performance The Media Audit has developed benchmarks for us to look at our markets. Join us for this session that focuses heavily on web benchmarks and some mobile (phone and tablet) insights. You'll take away who the leaders are and how your paper and website stacks up if you are in one of the 100+ markets, The Media Audit surveys.
Speaker:
Phillip Beswick, The Media Audit
The digital trend is in full swing, but don't sacrifice your print quality in the process! This workshop provides a simple process to achieving better quality images, ads, and over-all print production.
Learn how to:
-Set up your Photoshop, so that it understands the characteristics of a newspaper press.
-Establish a photo-toning workflow, which standardizes what is done to every image.
-Use your existing tools to maximize quality, minimize complaints, and create consistency.
Learn how to:
-Set up your Photoshop, so that it understands the characteristics of a newspaper press.
-Establish a photo-toning workflow, which standardizes what is done to every image.
-Use your existing tools to maximize quality, minimize complaints, and create consistency.
Speaker:
John Williams, Cygnus Consulting Group LLC
Find out about the technology you can't live without. Learn what everyone is using, how well it's working, and where you're wasting your money. Discussion based on a 2012 technology survey of every AAN website and with participation of the audience.
Moderator:
Anton Gelman, Cont3nt.com
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What are the implications of taking them? How do they affect the industry as a whole? How much do these bring to our bottom line? How are they affecting other business relationships and are they a turn-off to readers.
Moderator:
Rob Jiranek, Southcomm Inc.
Feeling overwhelmed by how to approach the next big thing in technology? Confused on terminology? Don't be embarrassed. Join us to learn how to speak geek as we give an overview of technologies, terms, social media and what you should know to operate in a digital newsroom and more importantly, how to plan your digital strategy.
Speaker:
Doug Mitchell
Doug Mitchell is a nationally recognized media trainer, project strategist and career coach. His former students who are now working professionals send him wedding invitations (he shows up) and birth announcements. Doug is a former Knight International Press Fellow and William S. Fulbright Scholar to Chile and spent 21.5 years as a producer and director at NPR, where he still consults on diversity related projects. While at NPR he created and managed a professional development program called "next generation radio" and built NPR's "Intern Edition." Currently, he's co-director of a startup camp funded by the Ford Foundation to develop journalists of color as tomorrow's media CEOs and a consultant and project manager for NPR. He likes to create substantive, progressive media projects from scratch.
If you've gone digital but don't have video -- you haven't gone digital. Find out how AAN members are tackling digital with photo and video, the resources available to you, and the new AAN Content Exchange that lets you create your own iReport, share video with other papers, and develop a revenue stream through licensing.
If you have ever asked yourself -- "How do we increase engagement and make more revenue from our digital presence?" -- this session is for you.
Speaker:
Anton Gelman, Cont3nt.com
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Are you under 40, Canadian, a first time convention go-er? Join the AAN board and staff for a beer and get to know us!
Friday, June 08
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Matt Thompson will deliver a lively talk: Why the alternative press was invented for the Internet - Alternative Newsweeklies pioneered a voice and style that's come to reflect the best of digital culture - irreverent, authentic and passionate. Now, in the age of Wikileaks, what can the alts learn from the Awl, while retaining their mission and brand.
Then, get inspired by local activist Grace Lee Boggs. "Most Americans have a very short-range idea of history," Boggs said recently. The long-range perspective that Boggs brings is that of an activist-philosopher, who steps back to see mass production as a 100-year-old enterprise, capitalism as a few hundred years old, and a city like Detroit in the context of evolution. A one-time associate of Marxist philosopher C.L.R. James, a Detroiter for more than half a century, Boggs' books "Living for Change: An Autobiography" and more recently "The Next American Revolution" have energized activists to think about our cities in fresh ways, to ask how we "rebuild, redefine, and respirit them as models of twenty-first century, self-reliant and sustainable multicultural communities."
Speakers:
Matt Thompson, NPR and Grace Lee Boggs
Matt Thompson is an editorial product manager at NPR, where he's helping to coordinate the development of 12 niche, local websites in conjunction with NPR member stations. He is also an adjunct faculty member at the Poynter Institute, having completed a four-year term on the organization's National Advisory Board in 2010. He currently serves on the board of the Center for Public Integrity. Before coming to NPR, Matt served as an interim online community manager for the Knight Foundation. From 2008 to 2009, he was a Donald W. Reynolds Fellow at the Reynolds Journalism Institute; his explorations in building context into news websites have been widely cited in discussions about online journalism's future. He came to RJI from his position as deputy web editor for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, where he led the creation of the Edgie-award-winning, socially networked arts-and-entertainment website vita.mn, as well as managing other technology and interactivity-related projects for StarTribune.com. Matt moved to the Star Tribune after serving as the first online reporter/producer for the Fresno Bee, winning first- and third-place Best of the West awards in 2004 for his multimedia projects. At the Bee, he led an internal advisory committee exploring the paper's strategies for acquiring new audiences. He worked at the Poynter Institute from 2003-04 as the Naughton Fellow for Online Reporting and Writing. While at Poynter, he and his colleague Robin Sloan produced the Flash movie EPIC 2014, a picture of the media past set 10 years in the future, which was written up in the New York Times, Financial Times, USA Today, the Guardian, on MSNBC, and elsewhere. Matt graduated with honors in English from Harvard College in 2002, after writing his senior thesis on the television show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Outside of work, he blogs at Snarkmarket.com, has completed one Twin Cities Marathon, and is itching to get ready for another.
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Over the last year, AAN's Diversity Committee has been hard at work on two things this session will cover: the AAN Diversity Best-Practices Document, and the groundbreaking diversity/demographics survey of AAN members. This open discussion will tackle the survey's findings: What do they mean, and where should AAN and its members go from here regarding diversity efforts?
Moderator:
Jimmy Boegle, Coachella Valley Independent
Jimmy Boegle is the founding editor and publisher of the
Will Sullivan is the self-described Nerd-in-Chief at the news and
technology blog Journerdism.com, chosen by Harvard University's Nieman
Journalism Lab as one of the 10 Best "Future of Journalism" blogs.
Sullivan pushes the boundaries of craft journalism and multimedia
storytelling in his writing, teaching and techie pursuits. This lively
session will address emerging tech tools, how they can make your
reporting better, and even ways to monetize them.
Speaker:
Will Sullivan, Lee Enterprises Inc.
Will Sullivan is the director of mobile news for Lee Enterprises Inc. and was previously a 2010-2011 Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Fellow at the University of Missouri, where he studied mobile, tablet and emerging technologies. Before that, he was the interactive director of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch where he lead the organization's mobile, social and multimedia initiatives. Sullivan was recently selected by Editor and Publisher as one of 2012's "25 under 35" innovative young journalism leaders. Sullivan's work has won more than a dozen professional awards from organizations including the Online News Association, Society for News Design and National Press Photographer Association; projects he's worked on have twice been declared finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and twice been named to Editor and Publisher's annual list of "10 That Do It Right." His personal website,
Big money attaches to national marketing campaigns. But how to break into the big leagues? This session offers advice for building relationships with local digital marketing and online advertising agencies in order to leverage national dollars through test campaigns, promotions and a fresh approach to mobile marketing.
Speakers:
Sarah Kotlova, Digitaria and Robby Robbins, Santa Barbara Independent
Sarah Kotlova is an account director at Digitaria and a specialist in interactive marketing. She seeks to create a user-centric culture for her agency and clients, bringing the voice of the customer in impactful ways into each marketing and advertising initiative. Sarah's experience includes building brands and business online for clients such as BumbleBee Foods, WD-40, Webster Bank, Intel Classmate PC, Covad, OAG (Official Airline Guide), and Philosophy. Prior to joining Digitaria, Sarah was the Vice-President of Strategy and Account Services for Geary Interactive, and Account Director for Whittmanhart in Los Angeles and Philadelphia, where her clients included Anheuser-Busch, Kellogg’s Special K, Johnson & Johnson (REMICADE (infliximab) and K-Y), Epson, Avery, Guidant and Kashi. When she can drag herself away from the computer, she also enjoys travel.
Robby Robbins is the multimedia sales manager at the Santa Barbara Independent. With nearly 25 years in the newspaper industry, he brings his straightforward, no-nonsense, ever-changing approach to staff and product management. With time spent in the daily world and now at his second Independent, he has pretty much tried it all and kept what works. Robby served on the AAN board of directors from 2002 to 2009.
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Breaking down the barriers between print and digital content on your digital products and how to design for it. How to be thinking reader first vs. system first. Give your readers content in a way that makes sense to them.
Speaker:
Michael Meyer, Essential
Join Baltimore City Paper Art Director Joe MacLeod for his now infamous session. You'll need to submit covers in advance to participate.
Speaker:
Joe MacLeod, Baltimore City Paper
The red state/blue state divide is not only simplistic, it's misleading. So says Dante Chinni of Patchwork Nation, a project that aims to tease out truth from America's crazy quilt of geographic and demographic diversity without hiding from its complexity. A journalist and author with two decades of experience, Chinni will explain how the true building blocks of this nation are communities, and how their unique perspectives on the economy and politics will play into the 2012 elections. Then, he will lead a discussion on how to use this information to do smart and innovative political stories in your community.
Speakers:
Dante Chinni, Patchwork Nation and Jeff Larson, ProPublica
Dante Chinni has been a journalist for some two decades now with stints at Newsweek, the Christian Science Monitor and the Project for Excellence in Journalism. He has also lived the freelance life with pieces appearing in outlets ranging from the Washington Post Magazine to The Economist to The New Republic. Although a card-carrying member of the East Coast Media Industrial Complex (bouncing between DC and New York), Dante’s roots are still firmly planted in the Industrial Midwest. He grew up outside Detroit and went to college at Michigan State University, where he studied journalism and history. Dante's work now centers on exploring the country through the lens of the 12 community types of 
Jeff Larson was the online director at The Nation where he coordinated the magazine's editorial and business activities on the web during the 2009 political season. Previously, he worked at W.W. Norton and as a film and video editor at an Emmy award-winning production company.
From monetizing Facebook contesting to online ticketing, third party social media management, online inventory reselling, white label phenomenon and the evolution of dating and deals sites. Who is making money where in the digital world of NTR. Join us for this Pecha Kucha session showcasing the best ideas from the industry. Want to present? Let us know.
Host:
Blair Barna, Charleston City Paper
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Herschel Fink defended Dr. Dre's right to film police officers who were on duty, and the Michigan State Supreme Court agreed. Fink, who has represented Michael Moore for the past 20 years, also played a key role in the Detroit Free Press freedom of information lawsuit that eventually put former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick behind bars. Join us at AAN's Free Speech Lunch with the former newspaper reporter who has been described as one of "the best lawyers in America under First Amendment law" by the SPJ.
The lunch will take place at the Detroit cultural gem known as Cliff Bell's. Located just blocks away from the convention hotel, Cliff Bell's is like taking a step back into Detroit's storied past. Behold the 1930's charm of the lavish, art-deco interior while dining on a delectable catered buffet of French-inspired fare.
Advance registration and separate fee of $25 required.
Speaker:
Herschel Fink, Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP
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Jeremy Rue will talk about news consumption habits on a desktop computers versus mobile devices, and the role multimedia plays in online news. Designer Kaitlin Yarnall will talk about the process of designing for tablet, whether an app or responsive design. She will take participants through the creative process and discuss nuts and bolts as well as potential pitfalls.
Speakers:
Jeremy Rue, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and Kaitlin Yarnall, National Geographic Magazine
Kaitlin Yarnall is the deputy creative director of National Geographic Magazine where she manages a diverse team of designers, graphic editors, artists, cartographers and interactive developers. She has been with National Geographic for seven years and has previously held the titles of senior research cartographic editor and deputy art director. Kaitlin is from Northern California and studied geography at Humboldt State University and George Washington University.
Join the Sunlight Foundation's Bill Allison and Joshua Hatch to learn the ins and outs of government and election transparency and accountability. The session will cover everything from lobbying to super PACs, including where to find the latest data and what you can do with it.
Speakers:
Bill Allison, Sunlight Foundation and Joshua Hatch, Sunlight Live
Bill Allison is the editorial director at the 
Joshua Hatch is the online content manager of
Experts Neil Chase and Tim Ruder will lead this interactive session on new digital revenue ideas that can be implemented fast and easily -- we'll talk tools, partners, re-using existing resources and everything in between. And, once you have that great idea -- how do you get it to market? We'll also cover training your staff, motivating digital salespeople and how to think about staffing for more digital revenue.
Speakers:
Neil Chase, Federated Media and Tim Ruder, Perfect Market, Inc.
Neil Chase is senior vice president for editorial at Federated Media, where he works with more than 100 of the best independent publishers on the web and oversees custom publishing projects for major clients. He has worked as an editor and page designer at a number of news organizations, including stints as managing editor at CBS MarketWatch and continuous news editor at The New York Times, and for five years he was an assistant professor at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. Neil has also been a consultant for dozens of companies and publications.
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Information is the key to building political stability, stimulating economic growth, and supporting healthy societies. Empowering local media -- both citizen and professional, in television, radio, online print and mobile -- ensures that locally-relevant news and information reaches individuals and helps them make informed decisions for their families and their communities. For issues ranging from governance to environmental policy to health and education, media acts as a catalyst to help communities create and share the information they need to build better futures. Join Jeri Curry, SVP of global communications and private development at Internews, for a discussion on the importance of local media in developing countries around the world and an emphasis on engaging communities.
Speaker:
Jeri Curry, Internews
Moderator:
Hanaa Rifaey, Press Forward
Hanaa Rifaey is the founder of Press Forward, a boutique consulting shop specializing in nonprofit management, strategic planning, fundraising, and marketing. Previously, Hanaa served as the President and Publisher of The American Independent News Network. She has managed campaigns and programs in a variety of issue areas including civil rights, health care, and climate change. Hanaa received her undergraduate degree from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash., and her master's degree from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. She lives in D.C. with her husband and their dog, two cats, and tiny human.
So you finally decided it was time to spruce up your old static site, create a FB page, assign someone on your team to tweet and you've gone mobile -- but let's face it -- so have all your competitors and their moms. Now it's time to really engage those loyal and new readers -- fast! This session will look at proven methods to get those eyeballs back.
Speaker:
Andre Gaulin, Agility Inc.
Andre Gaulin is a Toronto-based technologist with a focus on emerging technology. Currently, he is the director of agility solutions at Agility Inc. Andre is a graduate of the University of Toronto with a specialist degree in Geography and Geographic Information Systems. Early in his career, Andre transitioned into the world of web development and has never looked back. He has had the pleasure of delivering award-winning solutions for some of Canada's biggest media and entertainment companies including MuchMusic, CTV, Cineplex Entertainment, and the NHLPA to name a few. Andre's focus on usability, information architecture, the mobile web, and rich broadband media have allowed him to transform high level concepts into successful and engaging online properties.
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Wayne Kramer, noted guitarist, songwriter and film and television composer will speak about the city of Detroit, music and community activism.
Speaker:
Wayne Kramer
Wayne Kramer is a songwriter whose reputation writing music for film and television now risks supplanting his legend as one of the world’s stellar guitarists. Rolling Stone lists him as one of the top 100 guitarists of all time.
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We'll recognize and honor the winners of the AltWeekly Awards and their work at an afternoon reception. Toast the winners and runners-up with an adult beverage -- and enjoy a light bite as well.
Open to all, but advance registration and separate fee of $10 gets you two drink tickets.
In order for editorial products to be competitive in an environment as fragmented as today's, they need to use a process of innovation. Graphic design that is fresh and with high impact may be one way to cater to today's tastes. Using different story forms that deliver the message in a more visual way is one way to make editorial products distinctive.
Presented by The Society for News Design (SND).
Speaker:
Mauricio Gutierrez, Detroit Free Press
Mauricio Gutierrez , the features design director at the Detroit Free Press, has in his 20-year career designed and consulted for newspapers in North America, Europe and Asia and lectured on innovation and features design at SND workshops and at conferences and universities in several countries. His work has been recognized by the Society numerous times.
Saturday, June 09
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Within the next three years, digital ad revenue will exceed print ad revenue at the local level. The Alternatives may be able to survive as just a print product, but in order to thrive they'll need to morph into a media organization. If you are not on board the digital steamroller, you might wind up under it. Do you know how much local advertisers spend on digital media in your market and how other media ranks in their share of it?
Speaker:
Peter Conti, Borrell and Associates
Peter Conti is executive vice president at Borrell and Associates. Peter received the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s (IAB) 2010 Service Excellence Award for his dedication and leadership in helping educate local marketers and ad agencies in 2009. He has been engaged in traditional and online business start-ups for more than 20 years. After selling a retail business in late 1996, he began work in Richmond, Va., on one of the first e-commerce marketplaces for a 1,000+ member local merchants association. Peter joined Landmark Communications Inc. in 1998 to develop and manage the highly successful Richmond.com Web site. He has also served as director of interactive media for Media General’s Publishing division with shared responsibility for the online convergence effort of publishing and broadcast sites.Peter has been an adjunct professor at Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Business teaching Global Internet Marketing. He attended the International Studies program at the University of Lund, Sweden, and holds a bachelor’s degree in Radio, TV & Film from the University of Maryland.
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TED speaker and researcher at Harvard's Berkman Center Ethan Zuckerman will present innovative quantitative data on understanding media ecosystems, including how digital and analog are working together, questions of inclusion and exclusion in media dialog and ways to think about attention and influence.
Speaker:
Ethan Zuckerman, Center for Civic Media at MIT
Ethan Zuckerman is director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT, and a principal research scientist at MIT's Media Lab. His research focuses on the distribution of attention in mainstream and new media, the use of technology for international development, and the use of new media technologies by activists.With Rebecca MacKinnon, Ethan co-founded international blogging community Global Voices. Global Voices showcases news and opinions from citizen media in over 150 nations and thirty languages, publishing editions in twenty languages. Through Global Voices and through the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, where he served as a researcher and fellow for eight years, Ethan is active in efforts to promote freedom of expression and fight censorship in online spaces. In 2000, Ethan founded Geekcorps, a technology volunteer corps that sends IT specialists to work on projects in developing nations, with a focus on West Africa. Previously Ethan helped found Tripod.com, one of the web's first "personal publishing" sites. He blogs at http://ethanzuckerman.com/blog and lives in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts, with his wife, son and a small, fluffy cat.
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Comics journalism is inherently stylish, uniquely suited to sharing via social media, and popular as hell. During this panel, we'll share findings gleaned from editors, journalists and artists who have stretched the limits of comics to tell complicated stories in a variety of formats, and how they might fit in your newsroom.
Moderator:
Hanaa Rifaey, Press Forward
Panelists:
Darryl Holliday, McCormick Foundation and Erik Nelson Rodriguez, The Illustrated Press
Darryl Holliday has written for the Chicago Sun-Times, GapersBlock, The Columbia Chronicle and currently works with the McCormick Foundation's journalism program. He's also writer/reporter of The Illustrated Press: Chicago, an upcoming collection of comics journalism short stories with illustrator Erik Nelson Rodriguez. In addition to his work with comics journalism, Darryl is interested in data journalism, including the use of GIS to illustrate stories, and the use of new media tools to broaden the reach of community reporting. Both Darryl and fellow panelist Erik Nelson Rodriguez can be found on 
Erik Nelson Rodriguez is a graphic designer for The Columbia Chronicle and has directed the art in various city publications, including R_Wurd, a youth-journalism magazine based out of Columbia College Chicago. Erik has been drawing, literally, longer than he can remember. He's currently the illustrator for the The Illustrated Press: Chicago, an upcoming comics journalism book, with reporter Darryl Holliday. Both Darryl and Erik can be found on
The 10 best moneymaking event ideas that we haven't heard before (Best Of, Earth Day Festival, Music Festival) and that you can do in almost any market (No Amateur Porno or Weiner Dog Races).
Moderator:
Josh Gross, Boise Weekly
Panelists:
Don Eggert, Seven Days and Jeff Lawrence, Dig Publishing
Don Eggert is creative director and associate publisher of Seven Days. Although he spends most of his time designing and project-managing web projects and marketing initiatives, Don still finds some time to oversee five designers and manage the office IT. When he's not working, he likes to build things and watch Bravo with his partner and pet dachshunds, Edna & Trixie.
Telling great stories on the web doesn't need to be complicated. Meet responsive design, a way of building websites that can conform to any screen -- no mobile app or tablet version necessary. It's the next step in presenting great stories in a simpler, more beautiful way -- for all your readers. Dan Oshinsky of Stry.us and Ben Callahan of Sparkbox will walk you through the building of a responsive site, and explain how the magic of responsive design can change your web strategy forever.
Speakers:
Ben Callahan, Sparkbox and Dan Oshinsky, Stry.us
Ben Callahan is president of Sparkbox and co-founder of the Build Responsively workshop series. Ben is a thought leader on front-end development sharing his ideas about the web on the Sparkbox Foundry and industry blogs like Smashing Magazine. His leadership at Sparkbox has driven the organization to be a leading provider of responsive web design and he continues to push for better user and content experiences outside the context of specific devices.
Dan Oshinsky is the founder of
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Newsroom staffing levels, freelance pay rates, page counts -- this session is about the nitty gritty. In advance of this third-annual editors-only session, AAN editors will have had the opportunity to fill out a survey that addresses various benchmarks, as well as queries about how they deploy their resources. The survey will ultimately be collated and available in the AAN resource library as an editorial standards document. The session will consist of a lively free-wheeling discussion about how editors are using their budgets and staffs with the goal of generating new ideas and inspiration.
Moderator:
Rachael Daigle, Boise Weekly
Fran Zankowski will moderate discussion of this year's annual benchmarking survey. (Closed session, open only to AAN members who participated in the annual survey.)
Moderator:
Fran Zankowski, Colorado Springs Independent
Join esteemed author and Detroit-native Thomas Sugrue as he discusses
his latest research on American politics, urban history, civil rights,
and race.
Speaker:
Thomas Sugrue, University of Pennsylvania
Thomas Sugrue -- A native of Detroit, Thomas J. Sugrue is David Boies Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He teaches courses on race, civil rights, American cities, and twentieth-century American politics. His many books include "The Origins of the Urban Crisis," which won the prestigious Bancroft Prize in American History and several other awards; "Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North," which was a finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book Award; and "Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race." His essays, op-eds, and reviews have appeared in The Nation, London Review of Books, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal; and in the Motor City’s Metro Times and Detroit Free Press. Sugrue is an award-winning teacher who has given hundreds of lectures worldwide.
Consultant Tina Barnes will answer key questions about the mobile opportunity: Is mobile considered an advertising medium? What are users doing on mobile devices and how do I target them? When and how do I advertise to mobile users? And most important -- how can I sell it?
Speaker:
Tina Barnes
Tina Barnes With over 20 years of experience in digital and mobile advertising,
A hands-on guide to developing ideas with energy, executing them with touch and grabbing eyeballs. Including how it's done at Red Eye and a tour of winning illustration from around the world.
Presented by The Society for News Design (SND).
Speakers:
Jonathon Berlin, Chicago Tribune and Mike Rich, Redeye
Jonathon Berlin is the graphics editor of the Chicago Tribune and the president of the Society for News Design. He has worked at the San Jose Mercury News, Rocky Mountain News and The Times of Northwest Indiana, in addition to the Tribune. He's been a design director and designer, a graphics editor and artist. He's worked days and nights, sports, features and news. He's rolled out Web sites and redesigns. Invented new publications and fixed old ones. He lives in downtown Chicago with his wife, two boys and dog, and he tries to do one marathon a year.
Mike Rich is the art director at Redeye, a sib of the Trib and the official Jersey Shore/Dance Moms paper of record. Since joining the team in 2006 he has designed hundreds of covers, photographed hundreds of bands and been personally told off by Edward Norton. He's a huge fan of delicious sandwiches, biking and biking for delicious sandwiches.
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