2016 Presentations
SUNDAY, September 11
Pre-conference workshop: Google Tools for Your Newsroom
Speakers:
Mike Reilley (Business director/trainer, MediaShift.org/Google News Lab)
Pre-conference workshop: Tools and Techniques for Digital Success: Lessons from the Knight-Temple "Table Stakes" Project
Moderator:
Douglas Smith (Project director, The Knight-Temple Table Stakes Project)
Speakers:
Suki Dardarian (Senior managing editor and vice president, Minneapolis Star Tribune)
Mindy Marqués (Executive editor, Miami Herald)
Robyn Tomlin (Managing editor, The Dallas Morning News)
Stan Wischnowski (Executive editor/Senior vice president, Philadelphia Media Network)
MONDAY, September 12
Presidents' welcome
Speakers:
Pam Fine (President/Knight Chair for News, Leadership and Community, ASNE/The University of Kansas)
Laura Sellers (President/Managing editor, APME/The Daily Astorian)
Patrick Traylor (Photo editor/incoming president, The Denver Post/APPM)
Keynote: Hold fast to the mission, innovate absolutely everything else
Speaker:
Kathleen Carroll (Executive editor and senior vice president, The Associated Press)
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Remaking legacy newsrooms
Moderator:
Jim Rutenberg (Media columnist, The New York Times)
Speakers:
David Boardman (Dean and professor, Temple University's School of Media and Communication)
Suki Dardarian (Senior managing editor and vice president, Minneapolis Star Tribune)
Mindy Marqués (Executive editor, Miami Herald)
Robyn Tomlin (Managing editor, The Dallas Morning News)
Stan Wischnowski (Executive editor/Senior vice president, Philadelphia Media Network)
Lunch & Awards presentations
Lunch keynote: A chat with Apple innovator Eddy Cue
Moderator:
Eric Ulken (Managing editor and vice president of digital content, Philadelphia Media Network)
Speaker:
Eddy Cue (Senior vice president of Internet Software and Services, Apple)
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Free digital tools all newsrooms should be using right now
Speakers:
Val Hoeppner (CEO, Val Hoeppner Media and Consulting LLC)
Jamie Stockwell (Managing editor, San Antonio Express-News)
How you can lead a community-driven, product-focused newsroom (part 1 of 2)
Speakers:
Marie Gilot (Director of professional development, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism)
Jeff Jarvis (Director, Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism)
Greg Osberg (CEO and founder, Revlyst)
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Innovator of the Year
Moderator:
Angie Muhs (Executive editor, The State Journal-Register)
Speakers:
Greg Borowski (Deputy managing editor for projects, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Tony Elkins Jr. (Deputy managing editor, Herald-Tribune Media Group)
Summer Moore (Digital and audience engagement editor, The Times of Northwest Indiana)
Video by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Video and presentation by the Herald-Tribune Media Group
Video by The Times of Northwest Indiana
How you can lead a community-driven, product-focused newsroom (part 2 of 2)
Speakers:
Marie Gilot (Director of professional development, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism)
Jeff Jarvis (Director, Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism)
Greg Osberg (CEO and founder, Revlyst)
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Using solutions reporting to increase accountability
Moderator:
Tina Rosenberg (Co-founder, Solutions Journalism Network)
Speakers:
Greg Borowski (Deputy managing editor for projects, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
George Rodrigue (Editor, The Plain Dealer)
Jim Simon (Senior editor for enterprise, projects and Sunday, The Seattle Times)
Startups and reboots
Moderator:
Sybril Brown (Professor and journalist, Belmont University)
Speakers:
Jay Allred (Publisher, Richland Source)
John Harris (Co-founder and publisher, POLITICO)
Kevin Merida (Senior vice president and editor-in-chief, The Undefeated)
Sharon Waxman (CEO/founder, The Wrap)
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TUESDAY, September 13
Coffee with counsel
Speakers:
Cate Barron (Vice president of content, PA Media Group)
Kevin Goldberg (Lawyer/Legal counsel, Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth, P.L.C./ASNE)
Terry Mutchler (Counsel, Pepper Hamilton LLP)
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Awards presentations
Keynote: Our Racial Moment of Truth
Speakers:
Isabel Wilkerson (Author, “The Warmth of Other Suns”)
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The minority newsroom experience
Moderators:
Ronnie Agnew (Executive director, Mississippi Public Broadcasting)
Speakers:
Juan González (Broadcast journalist)
Hollis R. Towns (Executive editor and vice president, Asbury Park Press)
Doris Truong (Weekend homepage editor, The Washington Post)
Tyler R. Tynes (Reporter, SB Nation, Vox Media Company)
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Changing demographics: New ways to use data to tell better stories on the race beat and beyond
Moderators:
Sarah Nordgren (Executive director/director of U.S. news operations, APME/The Associated Press)
Speakers:
Larry Fenn (Data journalist, The Associated Press)
Wesley Lowery (National reporter, The Washington Post)
Nichelle Smith (Features editor, USA TODAY NETWORK)
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Lunch & Awards presentations
Lunch Keynote: Embracing challenges
Speaker:
Marty Baron (Executive editor, The Washington Post)
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Lame ducks and dog whistles: Race, precedence and the presidency
Moderator:
Keith Woods (Vice president for diversity in news and operations, NPR)
Speakers:
Ian Haney López (John H. Boalt Professor of Law and author, University of California, Berkeley)
Mindy Marqués (Executive editor, Miami Herald)
Otis Sanford
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What we can learn from nonprofits on engaging audiences
Moderator:
Monica Guzman (2016 fellow, Nieman Fellowship)
Speakers:
Joaquin Alvarado (CEO, The Center for Investigative Reporting)
Jennifer Brandel (CEO and co-founder, Hearken)
Emily Ramshaw (Editor-in-chief, The Texas Tribune)
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Access and accountability: What the next presidency will bring
Speakers:
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar (Healthcare reporter, The Associated Press)
Ted Bridis (Investigative editor, The Associated Press)
Julie Pace (Chief White House correspondent, The Associated Press)
David Scott (U.S. political editor, The Associated Press)
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Analytics and audience
Moderator:
Penny Riordan (Director of digital content partnerships, GateHouse Media)
Speakers:
Sachin Kamdar (Co-founder and CEO, Parse.ly)
Stephanie Roos (Deputy editor of audience development, FiveThirtyEight.com)
Amy Vernon (Director of audience engagement, The Daily Dot)
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Pulitzer @ 100
Moderator:
David Boardman (Dean and professor, Temple University's School of Media and Communication)
Speakers:
Dana Banker (Managing editor, Sun Sentinel)
Michael Days (Editor, Philadelphia Daily News)
Mitch Pugh (Executive editor, The Post and Courier)
Presentation
WEDNESDAY, September 14
Awards presentations
Recipient:
David Armstrong (Georgia State University)
Going vertical with millennials
Moderator:
Tony Elkins Jr. (Deputy managing editor, Herald-Tribune Media Group)
Speakers:
Liz Nelson (Director of audience engagement strategy, USA TODAY NETWORK)
Alex Rosenberg (Vice president and general manager, Graphiq)
Angela Smith (Vice president of sales and events, Billy Penn)
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The rise of opinion journalism
Speakers:
David D. Haynes (Editorial Page Editor, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Andrew Julien (Publisher and editor-in-chief, Hartford Courant Media Group)
Andrew Rosenthal (Op-ed columnist, The New York Times)
Complete Presentation
PowerPoint Presentation
New York Times Video
The future of the modern news media
Moderator:
Mizell Stewart (Vice president for news operations, Gannett/USA TODAY NETWORK)
Speakers:
S. Mitra Kalita (Vice president for programming, CNN Digital)
Mike Klingensmith (Publisher and CEO, Star Tribune Company)
Joanne Lipman (Chief content officer, Gannett)
Mike Oreskes (Editorial director and senior vice president of news, NPR)
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APME Community Journalism presentations
Moderator:
Cate Barron (Vice president of content, PA Media Group)
Speakers:
Jill Duchnowski (Local news editor, The Journal-Standard of Freeport)
Dennis Lyons (Editor, The Daily Item/The Danville News)
Developing your VR strategy
Moderator:
Justin Hendrix (Executive director, NYC MediaLab)
Speakers:
Nathan Griffiths (Interactive editor, The Associated Press)
Mia Tramz (Senior multimedia editor/Managing editor, Time/LIFE VR)
Kate Wurzbacher (Head of camera, Here be Dragons)
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Where the freedom of information struggle is headed
Moderator:
Anders Gyllenhaal (Vice president of news and Washington editor, The McClatchy Company)
Speakers:
Mandy Jenkins (Head of news, Storyful)
Jeffrey Rosen (President and CEO, National Constitution Center)
Margaret Sullivan (Media columnist, The Washington Post)
Awards presentations
Why we need journalism now more than ever
Moderator:
Clair Lorell (Director, National Community and News Literacy Roundtables Project, ASNE)
Speakers:
Mark Baldwin (Executive editor, Rockford Register Star)
Katrice Hardy (Executive editor/Southeast regional editor, Greenville News/USA TODAY NETWORK)
Joyce Terhaar (Executive editor and senior vice president, The Sacramento Bee)
Joe Woolley (State coordinator, ASNE Tennessee Tough Issues Forums)
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How we did it: Behind the scenes of ProPublica/Marshall Project's "Unbelievable Story of Rape"
Speakers:
Ken Armstrong (Investigative reporter, The Marshall Project)
T. Christian Miller (Senior reporter, ProPublica)
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