Webinar recordings

Liveblogging As Stories Unfold

Presenter: Steve Buttry, information content conductor, Gazette Communications, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Steve Buttry will show how his organization and others are telling stories as they unfold, from federal trials to sports events to government meetings to Black Friday shopping. Steve will lead a panel discussion using CoverItLive, inviting other newsroom leaders to share their liveblogging experience.
April 21, 2009 Size: 73.59 MB

Maintaining journalistic values online

Presenter: Mike Fancher
How can we better serve our readers with new technologies, transfer our key journalistic values to online and leverage them to separate us from competitors?
June 23, 2009 Size: 52.76 MB

Leading your staff into the Twitterverse

Presenter: Steve Buttry, information content conductor, Gazette Communications, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
This session provides help for editors who are new to Twitter (or know they should start) get up to speed. Steve will lead a virtual panel discussion of newsroom leaders using Twitter.
April 7, 2009 Size: 83.89 MB

Detroit's new publication plan: How's it going?

Presenters: Paul Anger, Jon Wolman
Moderator: Linda Cunningham
It's been over six months since the launch of Detroit's new publication plan. How's it going? What lessons can other news organizations learn?
December 2, 2009 Size: 89.07 MB

Journalism, Audience and Advertising on the Web

Presenters: Anthony Moor, deputy managing editor/Interactive, The Dallas Morning News
This big-picture presentation updates you on the relationship between the news media and news consumers. Things are changing rapidly, with readers choosing not to simply reside at the receiving end of a monologue. We'll review news consumption trends among old and new media, including some less-known cautionary trends; explain how news organizations are reacting to the trends; and explore how the digital business is fragmenting into distribution channels, each with the need for different content strategies. It helps journalists understand the need to have a newsroom innovation strategy for developing new information products and managing them for new and existing audiences.
April 23, 2009 Size: 117.49 MB

From free to fee

Join a conversation with executives who are at various stages of charging for online content: David M. Bessen, vice president of MediaNews Group; Walter Hussman, president and CEO of WEHCO Media, Little Rock, Ark., and Edward L. Seaton, editor-in-chief, The Manhattan (Kan.) Mercury.

The webinar will address a number of questions, including:

  • Why have a pay wall?
  • What form might it take?
  • What goes behind the pay wall?
  • How much to charge?
July 29, 2009 Size: 57.42 MB

Monetizing the Web

Presenter: Mike Silver, Newspaper Consortiums
Moderator: Scott Anderson
Mike Silver of the Newspaper Consortiums tells editors, point blank, what readers and advertisers want from our digital products and in local markets, and what our products need to do to successfully compete for the dollars.
May 5, 2009 Size: 56.18 MB
 

Journalism, Audience and Advertising on the Web

Presenter: Anthony Moor, deputy managing editor/Interactive, The Dallas Morning News
This big-picture presentation updates you on the relationship between the news media and news consumers. Things are changing rapidly, with readers choosing not to simply reside at the receiving end of a monologue. We'll review news consumption trends among old and new media, including some less-known cautionary trends; explain how news organizations are reacting to the trends; and explore how the digital business is fragmenting into distribution channels, each with the need for different content strategies. It helps journalists understand the need to have a newsroom innovation strategy for developing new information products and managing them for new and existing audiences.
October 28, 2008 Size: 34.10 MB

Motivating and leading for innovation

Case Study: A look at how the Detroit Free Press handled the corporate mandate of a new entertainment web site, Metromix.com. Launched in late March, Detroit Metromix.com is well ahead of all audience projections and is now the second largest site in the Metromix network.
Innovation can come from anywhere, how do you nurture it and get buy-in? How do you rally people behind a change when the idea comes from the top editors or your corporate parent? Conversely, what do you do with renegades? How do you let just one or two staffers that are not newsroom leaders make drastic change in the newsroom?
September 30, 2008 Size: 11.26 MB

Passion Sites -
Niche Web sites that focus on a narrow but passionate subject area

Niche Web sites that focus on a narrow but passionate subject area. These can draw a consistent and loyal audience and they are sometimes easier to monetize than broader sites. Examples in Nashville include a Tennessee environmental site, a local shopping site, a high school sports site, and a music site that's different from our broader entertainment site.
December 9, 2008 Size: 28.53 MB

Unlocking the mystery of sports credentials

Presenters: John Cherwa, Kevin Goldberg, Dave Tomlin
Moderator: Tim Franklin

Faced with restrictive sports credentials?

ASNE can help. Hear from the experts what you can do to fight back . You will learn:

  • What rights you and other news organizations really have
  • The "gotcha" phrases to look out for
  • Ways around the restrictions
  • Long-term solutions
September 3, 2009 Size: 52.24 MB

Sharing content

Presenters: David Shribman, executive editor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Neil Brown, executive editor, St. Petersburg Times.
Moderator: Susan Goldberg, editor, The Plain Dealer
A look at new sharing initiatives in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida as papers cut costs by putting aside past competition and capitalizing on one another´s strengths.
May 13, 2009 Size: 53.73 MB

The continuous news desk of the future

Presenters: Pam Johnson, executive director, Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, Missouri School of Journalism and Ken Fleming, associate director of research, The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Insititute, Missouri School of Journalism.
The Reynolds Institute reveals the findings of its indepth newsroom survey on the 24-hour news cycle.
April 29, 2009 Size: 62.45 MB

Unlocking the mystery of sports credentials

Presenter: John Cherwa, Kevin Goldberg and Tim Franklin explore sports credentialing.
Learn:
  • What rights do news organizations really have
  • What are the "gotcha" phrases to look out for
  • Ways around the restrictions
  • Fighting back and long-term solutions
January 13, 2009 Size: 29.39 MB

Conversation with Leonard Downie

Presenter: JLeonard Downie, vice president at large at The Washington Post and Weil Family Professor of Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University; Marty Kaiser, 2009-10 ASNE president; editor, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Marty Kaiser moderates a discussion about "The Reconstruction of American Journalism" report. It says that designating FCC fees and funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting are acceptable means to strengthen local journalism and accountability reporting.
November 2, 2009 Size: 43.29 MB

Leadership in a Time of Transition

Presenter: David Stoeffler
Participants will discuss the special challenges faced by newsroom leaders in these times, with a focus on the success stories, how to maintain strong journalism in print and digital and how to keep employees motivated and positive. We'll share practical tips and inspirational advice.
January 21, 2010 Size: 48.31 MB

Leading a mobile-first newsroom

Presenter: Steve Buttry
Do you find yourself spending more and more time on your BlackBerry, iPhone or Droid? So are people throughout your community. Today’s newsroom needs to change processes, priorities and culture to connect effectively with your mobile community. Steve Buttry, Director of Community Engagement for TBD, explains how newsroom leaders need to pursue a mobile-first strategy.
June 23, 2010 Size: 68.98 MB

Maintaining High Standards While Stretching Your Staff

Presenter: David Stoeffler
As newsrooms are stretched, editors often feel caught in a bind, compromising standards as they try to do more with less. Former Lee news executive David Stoeffler focused on what editors at small news organizations could do to maintain high standards. Participants shared ideas and discussed leadership and management habits to produce strong results through setting measurable and attainable goals.
March 10, 2010 Size: 41.97 MB

Journalism That Makes
a Difference in the Community

Presenter: DMichael Days, Philadelphia Daily News and staff
The seminar focused on "Tainted Justice," the Pulitzer Prize and ASNE award-winning series and how editors can create journalism that makes a difference in their communities. The Daily News won the awards this year for its series is about a rogue squad of Philadelphia narcotics cops that systematically looted mom and pop stores under the guise of busting them for selling drug paraphernalia. The series prompted an FBI investigation, new police policies and a number of civil rights lawsuits.
May 19, 2010 Size: 47.94 MB

Diversity and Downsizing: Can the Two Coexist?

Moderator: Susan Goldberg, editor, The Plain Dealer, Cleveland
Panelists: Bernard Lunzer, president, The Newspaper Guild; Thom Fladung, editor, St. Paul Pioneer Press; David Boardman, executive editor, The Seattle Times; Debra Adams Simmons, managing editor, The Plain Dealer, Cleveland; and Sharon Chan, technology reporter, The Seattle Times and AAJA president.

Discussion on how editors can try to retain diversity in an age of budget cuts, rebuild a diverse staff and work with unions on this important issue.
January 26, 2010 Size: 34.70 MB

Enterprise and Watchdog Reporting in Smaller News

Presenter: David Stoeffler
This is the second in a new series of ASNE webinars focusing on small newspapers. Even with staff reductions and the increasing demands of electronic media, many smaller news organizations are continuing to fulfill their missions for watchdog journalism and enterprise reporting that makes a difference in their communities. Using current examples, participants in the webinar shared ideas and solutions to address this key need.
February 9, 2010 Size: 50.58 MB

Growing the Sunday paper

Presenter: Randy Lovely, Brooke Christofferson, Jack Saunders, Michael Gorman
Trying to grow your Sunday paper?

The Arizona Republic has seen circulation and readership growth for the last two years after focusing the entire organization around growing Sunday. Sunday is the key day of the week for readers and advertisers. Hear about some of their efforts from key news, marketing and circulation executives.
October 6, 2010 Size: 63.56 MB

Making international coverage
compelling for a local audience

Presenter: David Rohde
David Rohde of The New York Times will draw on his experience covering conflicts in the Balkans, Israel-Palestine, Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan to suggest ways editors can promote international understanding through their journalism. Whether they edit a small or large newspaper and irrespective of whether they have international reporters, editors can make events abroad compelling, understandable and relevant to readers by combining classic storytelling techniques and new technologies. Rohde will describe how he did this in a five-part series he wrote for The New York Times last year on his seven month abduction by the Taliban.
June 8, 2010 Size: 3.94 MB

ASNE survey results

avid Rohde of The New York Times will draw on his experience covering conflicts in the Balkans, Israel-Palestine, Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan to suggest ways editors can promote international understanding through their journalism. Whether they edit a small or large newspaper and irrespective of whether they have international reporters, editors can make events abroad compelling, understandable and relevant to readers by combining classic storytelling techniques and new technologies. Rohde will describe how he did this in a five-part series he wrote for The New York Times last year on his seven month abduction by the Taliban.
ASNE unveils the findings of its latest newsroom census.
April 16, 2009 Size: 54.00 MB

Connecting With Your Community

Mark Cardwell on Connecting with Your Community.
In this nuts and bolts presentation, you'll learn:
  • How to get your readers connected with your newspaper.
  • How to shape the culture and the technology to build loyalty to your print and online products.
  • How a tighter community connection improves your journalism.
  • Tactics to deal with troublemakers and why it is worth the hassle.
February 4, 2009 Size: 31.10 MB

Conversation with Lee Abrams

Presenters: Lee Abrams, chief innovations officer, Tribune Company; Charlotte Hall, 2008-09 ASNE president; senior vice president/editor, Orlando Sentinel
Charlotte Hall moderates a wide-ranging conversation about the future of Tribune and the industry with the Tribune Company's chief innovation officer.
April 28, 2009 Size: 142.40 MB

After the launch - A candid
assessment of Detroit's new publication plan

Presenters: Paul Anger, Jon Wolman
Moderator: Linda Cunningham
A week after the launch of Detroit's new publication plan, Paul Anger, editor and vice president/News for the Detroit Free Press, and Jon Wolman, editor and publisher of The Detroit News, will share their assessments of the new content and delivery strategy and what knowledge and lessons can be shared by other news organizations.
April 8, 2009 Size: 81.68 MB

Newsgathering with iPhone

Presenters: Joe Howry and Ray Meese Ventura County Star, Camarillo, Calif.
California’s Ventura County Star has pioneered the use of iPhones as a mobile newsroom, training most of the staff in using the device for basic video and audio capture, editing and transmission.

Editor Joe Howry and Visuals Editor Ray Meese and his staff have developed a kit of accessories and software enabling them to produce Web-quality packages in the field without the need for a laptop computer. Howry and Meese will lead the discussion.
August 26, 2010 Size: 62.93 MB

Preparing to Cover the Best Story of Our Lives: The 2010 Census

Panelists: Julie Martin, Charlotte Hall, and Jeff Taylor
Moderator: Bobbi Bowman
We are four months from one of the most historic censuses in U.S. history. The major theme of this census: major racial changes in 21st Century America. Join us as we talk to editors from around the country about their coverage plans for this historic Census.These editors represent the three major themes of this Census:the shriveling Northeast and Midwest; the burgeoning West and the challenges of taking the census in an area reeling from a bloated real estate market and the New South growing from retirees and immigrants.
January 20, 2010 Size: 48.62 MB

Re-Energizing your Editorial pages

Presenter: David Stoeffler
In the era of the blogosphere and 24-hour cable networks filled with talking heads, what's the role of the editorial pages in print and online -- and how can smaller newspapers manage those pages? Former Lee news executive David Stoeffler led a webinar on bringing new life to your editorial pages and creating that print and virtual town square to gather your community for debate. Participants discussed the role these pages play, especially in smaller communities, and shared ideas about key issues, such as the value of endorsements and where to find a steady stream of good topics for editorials.
April 22, 2010 Size: 54.43 MB

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