Nonprofit journalism discussion and analysis at the Online Journalism Symposium
The 11th International Symposium on Online Journalism took place in Austin two days before the nonprofit journalism gathering and showed what several non-profit media outlets are doing online. The panel “Non-Profit Journalism: Models of non-commercial journalism online and their sustainability challenge,” on April 24, 2010, included presentations by Scott Lewis (Voice of San Diego), Jim O’Shea (Chicago News Cooperative), Evan Smith (Texas Tribune), and Matt Thompson (NPR).
You can see the slides used by each presenter on the symposium website: http://online.journalism.utexas.edu/slides.php
Here is some coverage and commentary on the panel discussion:
- Robert Rich provides key quotes from their presentations in the official symposium blog.
- Interviews with NPR’s Matt Thompson on Epic 2014 (An eight-minute movie depicting a fictional “museum of media history”) and Project Argo (an NPR project to help combine context and community engagement with news) are also on the official blog.
- Digital media scholar Alfred Hermida’s blog post on the panel.
For more information about the symposium as a whole, see this story on the Knight Center homepage and more posts from the symposium blog. Videos of the panel will be avaiable shortly on the symposium website.
