18th International Symposium on Online Journalism

16 Feb 2017

A unique conference of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, at the University of Texas at Austin, that bridges the gap between academia and the news industry.

Registration is open for the 18th International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ), which takes place in Austin, Texas on April 21 and 22, 2017.

Date: April 21-22, 2017

Venue: Auditorium of the University of Texas at Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art

Speakers: Nancy Barnes, Melissa Bell, Joshua Benton, Jim Brady, R. B. Brenner, McKay Coppins, Sopan Deb, Ethar El- Katatney, Micah Gelman, Arminda (Mandy) Marqués Gonzalez, Tom Grundy, Robert Hernandez, Angie Holan, Clara Jeffery, John Keefe, Kathleen Kingsbury, Matt Lewis, Alexios Mantzarlis, Joey Marburger, Eric Nuzum, Andrew Phelps, Aron Pilhofer, Lydia Polgneen, Shaheryar Popalzai, Nicholas Quah, Maria Teresa Ronderos, Juan Luis Sánchez, Andrea Silenzi, Craig Silverman, Evan Smith, Sanette Tanaka, Jim VandeHei, Janine Warner, Mike Wilson, Stan Wischnowski, Laura Zommer.

About ISOJ:

The ISOJ is an annual gathering of editors, producers, executives and academics from around the world who convene at the University of Texas at Austin to discuss the evolution of online journalism. ISOJ started in 1999 as a small, but very intense one-day conference but became international in 2003. Since then, ISOJ has had participants from Africa, Asia, Oceania, Europe and Latin America.

ISOJ is organized by the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas. Major Support to ISOJ comes from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Other sponsors of ISOJ 2017 include Google, The Dallas Morning News, Open Society Foundations and Univision News. ISOJ was created and is still organized by Professor Rosental Calmon Alves, Knight Chair in International Journalism and UNESCO Chair in Communication at the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Journalism at the Moody College of Communication.

Top journalists, media executives, researchers and academics from around the U.S. and the globe will attend the conference to discuss the latest trends, issues and innovations in online journalism. ISOJ consistently brings in expert speakers who talk about the transformational impact of digital technology on journalism. Topics of previous symposia have included changing business models, news formats, audience development and engagement, reporting tools, ethics, mobile and more.

More than 400 people from 41 countries registered for the conference last year.

To know more about the 18th International Symposium on Online Journalism please visit:
http://www.isoj.org/