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1 April 4-5 2O14 A PROGRAM OF THE KNIGHT CENTER FOR JOURNALISM IN THE AMERICAS THE AUDITORIUM OF THE BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

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3 2O14 TABLE OF CONTENTS Thanks to our generous sponsors....4 Welcome to ISOJ!....5 Schedule...8 Participant biographies....14

4 15 th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ONLINE JOURNALISM Organized by the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin thanks to the generosity of our sponsors: 4

5 WELCOME TO ISOJ! Rosental Calmon Alves here to make it possible. We have done it again. With an impressive lineup of speakers, relevant topics and multinational attendees, ISOJ makes Austin once again the World Capital of Online Journalism. At least for the next two days, this will be the center of digital journalism discussion. We are glad you are Enjoy the ISOJ experience! Be aware that you are participating in a unique conference, with amazing people on both sides, as speakers and attendees. No other conference offers this blend of journalists, media executives and scholars from all over the world. I counted more than 36 countries represented here, but the correct number must be much bigger, as we don t keep records of the origin of attendees. We are proud of bridging the industry and the academia, but also of bringing together researchers and professionals from so many countries, cultures and languages. That diversity will be represented, for example, in the Global Roundup breakfast session on Saturday at 8 a.m., with presenters from places like South Sudan, Ukraine, Myanmar and Nepal. They are part of a group brought to ISOJ by Open Society Foundations Program on Independent Journalism. There are also delegations from South Korea and Latin American countries among the attendees. The global aspect of ISOJ is even more impressive when you consider the live video streaming and the quick upload of the videos that will become immediately available to the general public. As we did last year, we are offering two live video feeds, including one with simultaneous translation to Spanish. ISOJ is celebrating its 15th anniversary! When we hosted the first symposium, in 1999, Google was a six-month old small startup in Palo Alto and many of the other big names of the Internet nowadays, such as Facebook or Twitter, did not exist even in their founders dreams. I still had to explain to some people what online journalism was, despite the fact that we were immersed in the dotcom boom (the burst would come a year later). The news industry was still reluctant in adapting to the ongoing Digital Revolution, and our cell phones were not smart yet. Throughout these 15 years, we have collected invaluable testimonials that will help the next generations to understand how journalism has 5

6 evolved to adapt to the revolutionary changes imposed by the advent of the Internet and digital technologies. All those testimonials are available online at ISOJ s website ( in videos, transcripts and other materials. It is our modest contribution to the history of journalism in the new century. We are grateful to our supporters, especially the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation that gave us a major grant for ISOJ. Other ISOJ sponsors are The Dallas Morning News, Omidyar Network, Univision Noticias, Google and our own Moody College of Communication. Without them, it would not be possible to host this global conference. Thank you to all who came from far away, from Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Oceania and the Americas, flying very long hours just to attend our conference. My gratitude also to all the researchers who submitted papers to the rigorous, competitive blind review process led by my colleague from San Diego State University, Dr. Amy Schmitz Weiss. Amy has contributed to the Knight Center and ISOJ since she was a graduate student here at our School of Journalism (see her note below). Congratulations to the researchers selected to present their papers at the conference, especially those who have their articles published in Volume 4 of #ISOJ The official research journal of the International Symposium on Online Journalism. Another unique aspect of ISOJ: researchers can immediately publish in a reputable, peer-reviewed journal instead of the long gap between conference and publication. Amy and I are extremely grateful to the reviewers who generously judge the papers. Finally, I want to thank all the volunteers who are helping us during this weekend. My very special thanks to the Knight Center team, especially Clare Boyle, Alejandro Martínez-Cabrera, Oscar Gomez, Ian Tennant, Mengwen Cao and Amy. Now, please enjoy the ISOJ experience and don t forget to report the sessions on social media as much as possible, using the hashtag #ISOJ. Cheers, Professor Rosental Calmon Alves Knight Chair in Journalism & UNESCO Chair in Communication Director, Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas Founder & Chair of the International Symposium on Online Journalism 6

7 Amy Schmitz Weiss Welcome everyone! This year, ISOJ continues its tradition of being innovative and different than years past. We have a robust twoday program with an amazing lineup of speakers along with additional programming including a special Saturday researcher breakfast featuring What s next in digital journalism scholarship? This year we have research presentations covering the topics of digital content preservation, social media, news curation tools, journalistic culture change, native advertising, locative media and much more. We are also happy to announce that all digital issues, including this year s issue of the #ISOJ journal, will now be available for free from the Symposium website. If you are interested in a print copy of the current journal, or past editions, see our registration staff to get a copy. There is a small cost for the print version. In addition, the #ISOJ journal will be indexed in the latest EBSCO database, Communication Source, that will launch this fall. You will be able to search and find journal articles from #ISOJ dating back to our first issue in 2011! We hope you will enjoy these next two days of the Symposium and come away inspired and excited with new ideas in the area of online journalism! Cheers, Amy Schmitz Weiss ISOJ Research Chair Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Media Studies, San Diego State University 7

8 THURSDAY, APRIL 3 SCHEDULE 5:30-7:30 P.M. Welcome reception: Texas Tribune/MediaShift Mixer sponsored by Digital First Media, KLRU and KUT Hole in the Wall Guadalupe Street FRIDAY, APRIL 4 7:30-8:30 a.m. Registration and breakfast 8:30-8:45 a.m. Opening Session Rosental Calmon Alves, professor, Knight Chair in Journalism and UNESCO Chair in Communication, School of Journalism, University of Texas at Austin (Symposium Chair) Glenn Frankel, director and professor at the School of Journalism, University of Texas at Austin Amy Schmitz Weiss, associate professor, San Diego State University (Symposium Research Chair) 8:45-9:30 a.m. Building a media company for the digital age: Lessons from the field Keynote speaker: Jim Bankoff, chairman and CEO at Vox Media (The Verge, SBNation, Polygon, Eater, etc.) Chair: R.B. Brenner, deputy director of the journalism program at Stanford University, upcoming (fall 2014) director of the School of Journalism, University of Texas at Austin 9:30-11:00 a.m. Bots, drones, sensors, wearables, etc.: The new tools for journalists Chair and presenter: Janine Warner, journalist turned geek, author and teacher Larry Birnbaum, professor of computer science and journalism at Northwestern University; chief scientific advisor at Narrative Science John Keefe, senior editor for Data News & Journalism Technology at WNYC Tim Pool, producer at Vice Media Matt Waite, professor of practice at University of Nebraska-Lincoln and founder of Journalism Drone Lab Nicholas Whitaker, media outreach lead at Google 8

9 11:00-11:30 a.m. Coffee Break 11:30-1:00 p.m. Journalism ethics and values: Challenges in the digital age Chair and presenter: Tom Rosenstiel, executive director at American Press Institute John Cook, editor-in-chief at First Look Media s digital magazine Intercept, former editor-in-chief at Gawker Jane Singer, professor at City University London/University of Iowa Sylvia Stead, public editor at The Globe and Mail, Canada Edward Wasserman, dean at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism 1:00-2:00 p.m. Lunch Google for Media office hours - learn tools and ask questions - Capitol Room 2:00-3:30 p.m. Life beyond the newspaper as a paper-only product: Strategies for the newspaper as a hybrid of atoms and bits Chair and presenter: Jim Moroney, CEO at A.H. Belo, publisher and CEO at The Dallas Morning News Penelope Muse Abernathy, Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Jim Brady, editor-in-chief at Digital First Media, past president at Online News Association Valtteri Halla, CTO at Leia Media, Finland Caroline Little, president and CEO at Newspaper Association of America 3:30-4:15 p.m. Pushing the frontier of journalism in China: The digital and global challenges Keynote speaker: Ying Chan, director and professor at The University of Hong Kong Journalism and Media Studies Centre Chair: Glenn Frankel, director and professor at the School of Journalism, University of Texas at Austin 4:15-4:30 p.m. Coffee Break 9

10 4:30-6:00 p.m. New research pathways in digital news content: From preservation to curation (Research session) Chair and discussant: Amy Schmitz Weiss, associate professor, San Diego State University (Symposium Research Chair) Juliette De Maeyer, Université de Montréal, Canada: All the News That s Fit to Link: An Exhaustive Analysis of Links in Their Editorial Context Patrick Howe and Brady Teufel, California Polytechnic State University: Native Advertising And Digital Natives: The Effects of Age and Advertisement Format on News Website Credibility Judgments Lisa Lynch, Concordia University, Canada, and Paul Fontaine, McGill University, Canada: Preserving the Unpreservable: Form, Content, Copyright and the Archiving of Born-Digital Newspapers Claudia Silva, Nova de Lisboa University, Portugal: Back to the Future of News: Looking at Locative Media Principles in the Pre-News Era Vittoria Sacco, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland, and Yanjun Zhao, Cameron University: The Impact of Curation On Stories Objectivity: Audience Criteria of Perceived Objectivity of Storify Alex Avila, University of Texas at Austin: Bienvenido a Miami y Más: Immigration Frames In English and Spanish Newspapers During the 2012 Florida Republican Primary 6:00-7:30 P.M. NiemanLab Happy Hour: A traditional Friday meetup of Harvard University s Nieman Journalism Lab & ISOJ Dog & Duck Pub W. 17th Street SATURDAY, APRIL 5 8:00-9:00 a.m. Registration Extra, simultaneous breakfast sessions 8:00-8:50 a.m. Global Roundup Breakfast: Online journalism during political transitions and conflict Chair: Jane McElhone, senior manager at Open Society Foundations Independent Journalism Program Jacob Akol, editor at Gurtong Trust Peace and Media Project, South Sudan Nataliya Gumenyuk, co-founder of Hronadste.tv, Ukraine Soe Myint, founder and managing director at Mizzima News, Myanmar Aunohita Mojumdar, associate editor at Himal Southasian, Nepal/ SouthAsia 10

11 8:00-8:50 a.m. Research Breakfast: What s next in digital journalism scholarship? Chair: Jane Singer, professor at City University London/University of Iowa The Lean Newsroom: A Manifesto for Risk: Carrie Brown-Smith, assistant professor at University of Memphis, and Jonathan Groves, assistant professor at Drury University Meeting New Readers Through a Digital Transition: Lessons from Entertainment: Loreto Corredoira, visiting scholar at Media and Entertainment Center at University of California Los Angeles, and professor at Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) Reciprocal Journalism: Avery Holton, University of Utah, Seth Lewis, University of Minnesota, and Mark Coddington, University of Texas at Austin Lessons From a Year in Silicon Valley: Toward a More Innovative Research Program: Cindy Royal, Knight Fellow at Stanford University, and associate professor at Texas State University The Engaging News Project: Using A/B Testing for Democratic and Business Goals: Talia Stroud, associate professor at University of Texas at Austin 9:00-9:45 a.m. Giving good advice: Reflections of an academic on 25 years of advising journalists and media companies Keynote speaker: Jay Rosen, associate professor at New York University and blogger at PressThink.org Chair: Paula Poindexter, president at Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) 9:45-11:15 a.m. Journalism star startups: Building innovative media outlets for the digital age Chair and presenter: Michael Maness, vice president for journalism and media innovation at Knight Foundation Laura Amico, CEO, editor and founder at Homicide Watch D.C. Joey Chung, CEO and co-founder at The News Lens, Taipei, Taiwan Jake Horowitz, editor-in-chief and co-founder at PolicyMic Juanita León, director and founder at La Silla Vacía, Bogotá, Colombia Emily Ramshaw, editor at The Texas Tribune 11:15-11:30 a.m. Coffee Break 11

12 11:30-12:45 p.m. Emerging journalistic practices in the digital age (Research session) Chair and discussant: Jane Singer, professor at City University London/ University of Iowa Lisa Lynch, Concordia University, Canada: A Huge Culture Change: Newsrooms at La Presse and The Montreal Gazette Reflect on the Shift to Digital-First Avery Holton, University of Utah and Logan Molyneux, University of Texas at Austin: Branding (Health) Journalism: Perceptions, Practices, and Emerging Norms Adriana Barsotti, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Two Screens, Two Paths: News Production For Smartphones and Tablets on the Brazilian Newspaper Scene Matthew Powers, University of Washington-Seattle: Can NGOs Do Journalism? Do They Even Want To? Understanding the Information Work of Leading Humanitarian and Human Rights NGOs Edward Kian and Ray Murray, Oklahoma State University: Curmudgeons But Yet Adapters: Impact of Web 2.0 and Twitter on Newspaper Sport Journalists Jobs, Responsibilities, and Routines 12:45-2:00 p.m. Lunch 2:00-2:45 p.m. The untold story: Why we should be optimistic about journalism Keynote speaker: Martin Baron, executive editor at The Washington Post Chair: Evan Smith, CEO and executive editor at The Texas Tribune 2:45-4:15 p.m. Life after television news? The boom of video on the Web and Web video on TV sets Chair: Robert Hernandez, assistant professor of professional practice at Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at USC Rahul Chopra, senior vice president video at News Corp. Daniel Eilemberg, senior vice president, chief digital officer at Fusion Rebecca Howard, general manager video, The New York Times Riyaad Minty, project lead of AJ+ at Al Jazeera Katharine Zaleski, managing editor at NowThis News 4:15-4:30 p.m. Coffee Break 12

13 4:30-6:00 p.m. Knowing your audience: Readership analytics and editorial strategies for online news Chair: Joshua Benton, director at Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University Todd Cunningham, director at Media Impact Project, the Norman Lear Center at University of Southern California Melody Kramer, digital strategist and associate editor at NPR Higinio O. Maycotte, CEO and founder at Umbel James G. Robinson, director for news analytics at The New York Times Nicholas White, CEO and founder at The Daily Dot 13

14 Participant Biographies PENELOPE (PENNY) MUSE ABERNATHY is a journalism professional with more than 30 years of experience as a reporter, editor and media executive. She became the Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics at the University of North Carolina July 1, Abernathy, a former executive at The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, specializes in preserving quality journalism by helping the news business succeed economically in the digital media environment. At UNC, Abernathy focuses her expertise on 21st-century economic models that will improve the ability of journalists to produce news in the public interest. Her book, Saving Community Journalism: The Path to Profitability, will be published by UNC Press in spring 2014 and is based on five years of research, involving more than two dozen newspapers around the country. As a senior executive, Abernathy oversaw the launch of new enterprises and helped increase revenue at some of the nation s most prominent news organizations and publishing companies, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and the Harvard Business Review. Prior to joining the school, she was vice president and executive director of industry programs at the Paley Center for Media in New York City. ROSENTAL CALMON ALVES is a professor and holds the Knight Chair in Journalism and the UNESCO Chair in Communication at the School of Journalism, where he is also the director of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas. He began his academic career in the U.S. in 1996, after 27 years as a professional journalist, including seven years as a journalism professor in Brazil. He spent most of his career at Jornal do Brasil, which was then a leading newspaper in Rio de Janeiro, where worked as a reporter, foreign correspondent, executive editor and director. In early 1995, he managed the creation of Jornal do Brasil s online edition, making it the first Brazilian newspaper available on the Web. At the University of Texas, Alves created in the first course on online journalism and since then he has been teaching classes related to digital media. In 2011, he created a class on entrepreneurial journalism. He also teaches courses on international reporting and Latin American journalism. 14

15 LAURA AMICO is founder of the award-winning Homicide Watch enterprise and is a core member of digital journalism s Structured Journalism movement. A 2013 Nieman-Berkman fellow in journalism innovation at Harvard, she s now working with WBUR to launch a structured journalism education reform beat covering Massachusetts. She is a 2011 MJ Bear Fellow with the Online News Association, a fellow at the 6th Annual Harry Frank Guggenheim Symposium on Crime in America, a Knight News Entrepreneur Boot Camp alum, and a New York Times Chairman s award winner. A.J. ALEX AVILA is a Ph.D. candidate in journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. From 1998 to 2010, Avila was a producer for the NPR program Latino USA. His journalistic experience also includes work as an assistant editor for Hispanic Magazine, managing editor for the National Hispanic Journal, and managing editor for Arriba Art & Business News. He has taught journalism and media communications at St. Edward s University in Austin, at San Antonio College, and at Texas A&M- Commerce. Avila s Master s thesis, Exploring a New Radio Audience, analyzed the podcast audience for the NPR program where he worked. As an award-winning national journalist, Avila has spoken frequently on ethnic media and immigration issues. His current research focus is on digital media audiences and issues of identity. Avila is the author of Bienvenido a Miami y Más: Immigration Frames In English and Spanish Newspapers During the 2012 Florida Republican Primary, accepted into the peer-reviewed #ISOJ journal. JIM BANKOFF runs all aspects of Vox Media, one of the fastest growing online publishers, focused on sports, personal technology and gaming categories. Vox has enjoyed remarkable growth by delivering the most valuable digital storytelling, online communities, advertising and audiences. SB Nation, its sports brand, boasts over 30 million users per month across 300 individually branded, fan-centric sports communities, each covering a specific professional or college team, league or sport. In November 2011, Vox Media launched The Verge, which has quickly established itself as a category leader and the fastest growing site that covers technology. In Oct. 2012, 15

16 Vox launched Polygon, a site dedicated to news and community for fans of gaming, anchored by an all-star roster of writers. All Vox Media sites are built upon its worldclass proprietary publishing platform, Chorus. The company enjoys support from leading investors including Accel Partners, Comcast Interactive Capital and Khosla Ventures. A veteran of the online industry, Bankoff developed and led dozens of the most popular websites on the Internet including AOL, Mapquest, Moviefone, AOL Music, TMZ and Engadget as an executive vice president at AOL. Bankoff also oversaw AOL s industry-leading instant messaging services, AIM and ICQ, and social networking and community applications including Blogsmith and Netscape. His accomplishments have earned him wide recognition, most notably the first Emmy ever awarded to a webcast, for his role as executive producer of the Live 8 concerts online. MARTIN MARTY BARON became executive editor of The Washington Post on Jan. 2, He oversees the Post s print and digital news operations. Previously, Baron had been editor of The Boston Globe since During his tenure, The Globe won six Pulitzer Prizes for public service, explanatory journalism, national reporting and criticism. The Pulitzer Prize for Public Service was awarded in 2003 for a Globe Spotlight Team investigation into clergy sex abuse in the Catholic Church. Prior to the Globe, he held top editing positions at The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and The Miami Herald. Under his leadership, The Miami Herald won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Coverage in 2001 for its coverage of the raid to recover Elián González, the Cuban boy at the center of a fierce immigration and custody dispute. Baron was named Editor of the Year by Editor & Publisher magazine in 2001, and Editor of the Year by the National Press Foundation in He began his journalism career at The Miami Herald in 1976, serving as a state reporter and later as a business writer. In 1979, he moved to The Los Angeles Times, where he became business editor in 1983; assistant managing editor for page-one special reports, public opinion polling and special projects in 1991; and, in 1993, editor of the newspaper s Orange County Edition, which then had about 165 staffers. In 1996, Baron moved to The New York Times; he became associate managing editor responsible 16

17 for the nighttime news operations of the newspaper in He was named executive editor at The Miami Herald at the start of Born in 1954 and raised in Tampa, FL, Baron speaks fluent Spanish. He graduated from Lehigh University in 1976 with both BA and MBA degrees. ADRIANA BARSOTTI is a journalist and professor of digital journalism at Ibmec University in Rio de Janeiro. Currently undertaking doctoral studies in Social Communication at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, she holds a Master s in Social Communication from the same institution and an undergraduate degree from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She has 25 years of professional experience, having worked in both print and digital journalism in newsrooms for the papers O Estado de S. Paulo and O Globo, and the magazine IstoÉ, where she held the posts of reporter and editor. She was awarded two Esso de Jornalismo prizes and the Prêmio Compós de Dissertação 2013 prize, for her work Contemporary Transformations in Journalistic Practices: Online Journalists as Audience Mobilizers, awarded by the National Association for Postgraduate Programs in Communication Programs. Barsotti is currently a columnist at O Globo and an editorial digital planning consultant for the editorial market. Barsotti is the author of Two Screens, Two Paths: News Production For Smartphones and Tablets on the Brazilian Newspaper Scene, accepted into the peer-reviewed #ISOJ journal. JOSHUA BENTON is director of the Nieman Journalism Lab. Before spending a year at Harvard as a 2008 Nieman Fellow, he spent 10 years in newspapers, most recently at The Dallas Morning News. His reports on cheating on standardized tests in the Texas public schools led to the permanent shutdown of a school district and won the Philip Meyer Journalism Award from Investigative Reporters and Editors. He has reported from 10 countries, been a Pew Fellow in International Journalism, and a three-time finalist for the Livingston Award for International Reporting. Before Dallas, Benton was a reporter and rock critic for The Toledo Blade. He is a big nerd who started blogging when Bill Clinton was still president. 17

18 LARRY BIRNBAUM is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and of journalism, at Northwestern University. He is a founder of the Knight Lab, an interdisciplinary center for innovation in news and media technology at Northwestern, as well as co-director of the Intelligent Information Laboratory there. Larry is also a founder and chief scientific advisor of Narrative Science Inc. His research encompasses artificial intelligence, natural language processing, machine learning, human-computer interaction, and intelligent information systems. He has authored or co-authored more than 130 articles and holds 17 patents. Birnbaum received his B.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from Yale University (the latter in 1986) and joined the Northwestern faculty in JIM BRADY is the editor-in-chief of Digital First Media and oversees the editorial strategy and operations of its 75 daily newspapers, 292 non-daily publications and 341 online sites. Before joining DFM, Brady served as general manager of TBD, a local startup that combined the values of traditional journalism and the power of citizen journalism. Brady joined TBD after more than four years as executive editor of washingtonpost.com, where he led the site to numerous awards and accolades. Brady was also part of washingtonpost.com s launch team in 1996, and served in various roles there from 1995 to In between his stints at washingtonpost.com, Brady spent more than four years at America Online, serving as group programming director, news & sports; executive director, editorial operations; and vice president, production & operations. During his time at AOL, Brady was in charge of the service s coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the 2000 presidential election. R.B. BRENNER is the deputy director of Stanford University s Journalism Program and a former Washington Post editor. Recently, he was appointed as director of the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, effective Aug. 1, The appointment marks a return to the School of Journalism, where he was a visiting lecturer in the spring of His editing roles at The Washington Post included Maryland editor, metropolitan editor, Sunday editor, and deputy universal news editor. He was one of the primary editors of the newspaper s coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings, which was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in

19 The following year he helped lead the merger of The Post digital and print newsrooms. At Stanford University, his professional home since September 2010, Brenner is both the deputy director of the Journalism Program and a lecturer in the Department of Communication. He teaches public issues reporting, digital journalism, and long-form feature writing. A graduate of Oberlin College, he began his reporting career at the Winston-Salem Journal in North Carolina and then worked as a reporter and editor at newspapers in California and Florida before joining The Washington Post. He is an adjunct faculty member at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, FL. YING CHAN is a writer, educator, and the founding director of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre. As an academic unit of The University of Hong Kong, the JMSC offers professional graduate and undergraduate degrees in journalism, M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees. She was the founding dean ( ) of the journalism school at Shantou University in China. Prior to joining HKU in 1998, Chan spent 23 years working as a journalist in New York City, where she reported for the Daily News, NBC News, and a number of Chinese-language dailies. Chan s honors include a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University, a George Polk Award for journalistic excellence and an International Press Freedom Award by the Committee to Protect Journalists. She is a Public Lead of Creative Commons Hong Kong, a board member of the Media Development Loan Fund, and the chair of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Informed Societies. RAHUL CHOPRA is the senior vice president of video for News Corporation, where he is responsible for video expansion across all of the company s properties worldwide. He is now part of the executive team of the recently acquired Storyful, as chief revenue officer. Prior to joining News Corp., Chopra oversaw video globally across Dow Jones, including WSJ Live, The Wall Street Journal s video initiative, which generates more than four hours of live video per day and is available on more than 30 platforms, including Apple TV, Roku and YouTube. Chopra held multiple roles within business development at Dow Jones, primarily focusing on the Journal s video, mobile 19

20 and tablet expansion strategy, as well as developing external strategic partnerships to expand reach and distribution. Before joining Dow Jones, he worked in investment banking for several years with Morgan Stanley and the Bank of New York. Chopra holds an M.B.A. from the HEC School of Management in Paris and a B.S. in economics from Rutgers University. JOEY CHUNG is the co-founder and CEO of The New Lens, one of the fastest growing digital news sites in Asia, which was started in mid Before starting The News Lens, he was with the Japanese multinational character and media company Sanrio, first starting out in San Francisco and Los Angeles as its business development manager. He then became president of its China operations in Shanghai between Before that, he worked for Polo Ralph Lauren in New York, the Equity Research Department of thr investment bank UBS, and was a reporter and columnist for The Taipei Times. He graduated from Harvard Business School with an M.B.A. in 2009, and has published six books in the Greater China markets, where he is also a columnist for Business Weekly Taiwan. He was raised in the U.S. and Taiwan. JOHN COOK is the editor-in-chief of The Intercept, a digital magazine launched by First Look Media in concert with Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Jeremy Scahill to cover national security, surveillance, criminal justice, and politics. Prior to that, he was the editor-in-chief of Gawker, where, among other things, he broke the story of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford s crack cocaine abuse. Before joining Gawker, Cook served in a variety of reporting and editorial positions at Radar Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, Mother Jones, Yahoo! News, and Brill s Content. He has also written for The New York Times Magazine, Slate, the Columbia Journalism Review, BookForum, The Los Angeles Times, and a variety of other outlets. He has taught magazine writing at Northwestern University s Medill School of Journalism and is the co-author of Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records. TODD CUNNINGHAM oversees USC Annenberg s Media Impact Project at the Norman Lear Center. While at MTV and Viacom, Cunningham was nationally recognized for 20