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Thursday, June 07
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1:15 pm
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2:15 pm
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
Friday, June 08
9 am
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10:15 am
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.
11:30 am
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12:30 pm
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
1:45 pm
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2:45 pm
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
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.
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.
3:15 pm
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4 pm
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.
4 pm
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5:30 pm
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
10:15 am
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11 am
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.
11:15 am
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12:15 pm
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
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.
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
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
12:15 pm
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1:45 pm
2 pm
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3:15 pm
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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5 pm
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