By: Jay DeFoore A how-to guide to blogging, the legal implications of user-created content, and a session discussing how news organizations turned to the Web during Hurricane Katrina are all on the agenda at the Online News Association's annual conference and trade show, which gets underway Friday at New York City's Hilton Hotel.
New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr., is set to give the keynote speech Friday morning, and will no doubt talk about TimesSelect, the paper's first major move to charge for online content.
ONA executive director Tom Regan told E&P in an interview that the conference organizers "tried to recognize that there is a new type of online journalism," including participatory journalism and bloggers. Much of the programming reflects the latest changes not only in technology but also in the ways users are consuming -- and contributing to -- the online news discussion.
The how-to guide to blogging will include bloggers Heather Green of Business Week and Mary Jo Foley, who blogs about Microsoft for Ziff Davis, as well as SpokesmanReview.com Online Producer Ryan Pitts. Another Friday panel, titled What's Still New in New Media, will offer four breakout session, each resulting in a live wiki.
For the Hurricane Katrina session, which Regan said he is most excited about, online journalists from Louisiana and Mississippi will talk about how they kept the news flowing at a time when most newspapers and TV stations were rendered inoperable. Panelists will include Steve Ibanez, of NOLA.com/Times Picayune; Sandy Breland, News Director, WWL-TV; Chris Norman, Director/Local Operations, Knight Ridder Digital; Keith Burton, Publisher/Editor, GulfCoastNews.com; and moderated by Denise Polverine, Editor-in-Chief, Cleveland.com.
The panels will continue on Saturday, with a "participatory journalism" discussion addressing the emergence of blogs, phlogs, wikis, Web casts, podcasts, and online forums. Other seminars will tackle topics such as visual storytelling techniques and the future of journalism.
Confirmed speakers include Gawker Media Managing Editor Lockhart Steele, Yahoo! News Director Neil Budde, Backfence President and CEO Susan DeFife, CityTools President Robert S. Cauthorn, Forbes.com Editor Paul Maidment, and New York Times Graphics Editor Archie Tse, among others.
Saturday night will conclude with a cocktail reception followed by the 2005 Online Journalism Awards and Banquet. Greg Mitchell, Editor & Publisher's editor-in-chief, is a finalist for the award for Online Commentary.
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register for the conference online. Tickets for Saturday's dinner should be purchased no later than Friday.
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