The forum was moderated by Dave Ross. Panelists included:
| Jay Rosen NYU | Rosen is a professor at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and a prominent voice in the national conversation about the future of the craft. In addition to writing Press Think, he blogs at the Huffington Post, sits on the advisory board of Wikipedia, and launched NewAssignment.Net, an experimental site for open source reporting projects in 2006. In 1999, he wrote What Are Journalists For? about the rise of the civic journalism movement. More on Rosen on his faculty bio [nyu] and "blogging" course syllabus. [pdf]. |
| Art Thiel Seattle P-I | Art grew up in Tacoma, went to college at PLU, has been at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer since 1980. There, he has been a sports columnist since 1987. In 2003, he wrote Out of Left Field, a book on the Seattle Mariners. His latest, The Great Book of Seattle Sports Lists, will appear in May 2009. |
| Kathy Gill UW |
Kathy Gill teaches digital media at the University of Washington, Department of Communication. Her focus is on digital social interaction and impact of these technologies on the news media and politics.
WiredPen supports her classes with tech news and commentary about convergence; it helps ease the itchy finger "must write!" gene. In 2004, her interest in e-voting and public policy threatened to shift her focus away from technology and toward politics. She resisted that switch by becoming the US Politics Guide at About.com. For more information, see her faculty bio [uw] |
| Cory Haik Seattle Times | Cory Tolbert Haik is an online journalist who has spent the last decade managing the disruption of web media - which she likes. From reporting, to editing, to multimedia, to production, Cory has had her hands in most things that make online journalism work. She truly cut her teeth following the storms of the Gulf Coast at NOLA.com, site of the Times-Picayune in New Orleans, where she was Managing Editor during Hurricane Katrina. She is currently the Director of Content for SeattleTimes.com, where she spends most of her day helping other folks make sense of the web and inventing words like "Weberprise" (ask her). More on Haik [linkedin]. |