Speakers
Updated 4/8/2010
Bill Adee, Editor for Digital Media, Chicago Tribune
Ty Ahmad-Taylor, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, FanFeedr, New York
Rick Allen, Chief Executive Officer, SnagFilms
Bill Allison, Editorial Director, Sunlight Foundation, Washington
Ken Auletta, Media Critic, The New Yorker, New York
David Barham, Editorial Writer, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Donna Barrett, President and CEO, Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.
Rich Beckman, Knight Chair in Visual Journalism, University of Miami School of Communciation
Nina Bernstein, Reporter, The New York Times
Frank A. Blethen, Publisher, The Seattle Times
LaBarbara Bowman, Diversity Consultant, ASNE
James M. Brady, Digital Editorial Consultant, Allbritton Communications, Great Falls, Va.
Elizabeth Brenner, Publisher, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Merrill Brown, Founder and Principal, MMB Media, LLC, New York
Barbara Bry, Associate Publisher, San Diego News Network
Stephen A. Buttry, Director of Community Engagement, Allbritton Communications
Christopher Callahan, Dean, Arizona State University, Phoenix
David Carr, Reporter/Columnist, The New York Times
Andy Carvin, Senior Strategist, Social Media Desk, National Public Radio
Bill Church, Executive Editor, Statesman Journal
Rebecca Coates Nee, Lecturer, School of Journalism & Media Studies, San Diego
Patrick Cooper, Innovation Manager, USA TODAY
Thomas Curley, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Associated Press, New York
Eric Deggans, Media Critic, St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times
Lane DeGregory, Features Writer, St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times
Susan S. DeSanti, Director, Office of Policy Planning, Federal Trade Commission, Washington
Kenneth J. Doctor, Affiliate Analyst, Outsell/Content Bridges, Burlingame, Calif.
Andrew Donohue, Editor, Voice of San Diego, San Diego
Joel Dreyfuss, Managing Editor, The Root, Washington
Karen Brown Dunlap, President, The Poynter Institute, St. Petersburg, Fla.
Dave Eggers, Founder and Editor, McSweeney's, San Francisco
Michael R. Fancher, Retired, Seattle
Katherine I. Funk, Partner, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, Washington
Megan Garber, Assistant Editor, Nieman Journalism Lab, Cambridge, Mass.
Timothy F. Geithner, Treasury Secretary
Brooke Gladstone, Host and Managing Editor, On the Media
Rich Gordon, Associate Professor, Director of Digital Innovation, Medill School, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.
Steve Gunn, editor for innovative and new products, The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer
Cory Haik, Director of Content, The Seattle Times
Charlotte H. Hall, Senior Vice President/Editor, Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel
Joshua Hatch, Interactive Director, USA TODAY, McLean, Va.
Eduardo Hauser, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, DailyMe, Inc.
Lorie Hearn, Executive Editor, Watchdog Institute
Amanda Hickman, Program Director, DocumentCloud
Rick Hirsch, Senior Editor/multimedia, The Miami Herald
Jane Hirt, Managing Editor News/Features, Chicago Tribune
Brant Houston, Knight Chair, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Arianna Huffington, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, The Huffington Post, Los Angeles
Walter E. Hussman, President and CEO, WEHCO Media, Little Rock, Ark.
Matthew Idema, V.P. for Local, Country Manager for Canada, Yahoo!
Martin Kaiser, Editor, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Joel Kramer, Editor and Chief Executive Officer, MinnPost.com, Minneapolis
Staci D. Kramer, Co-editor and EVP, ContentNext Media
Barbara Laker, Reporter, Philadelphia Daily News
Charles Lewis, Founder, Investigative News Network, Washington
Jeff Light, Editor, The San Diego Union-Tribune
Liz Lufkin, Senior Director, Yahoo!
Kelly McBride, Ethics Group Leader, The Poynter Institute
Alan C. Miller, Executive Director, The News Literacy Project, Bethesda, Md.
Anthony Moor, Lead Local Editor, Yahoo!
Martin Moore, Founder, hNews
Maggie Mulvihill, Associate Director and Senior Investigative Producer, New England Center for Investigative Reporting at Boston University
John Nichols, Washington Correspondent, The Nation, Washington
Michelle Nicolosi, Executive Producer, SeattlePI.com, Seattle
Geneva Overholser, Director, School of Journalism, USC Annenberg School of Journalism, Los Angeles
Dan Pacheco, Co-creator, Printcasting
Carol Pardun, Director, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of South Carolina, and president, AEJMC
Nora Paul, Director, Institute for New Media Studies, Minneapolis
Bob Payne, Director of Communities, Seattletimes.com, Seattle
Christoph Pleitgen, Managing Director, Reuters News Agency, Thomson Reuters, London
Jeff Reifman, Founder, NewsCloud
David Rohde, Reporter, The New York Times
Thomas B. Rosenstiel, Director, Project for Excellence in Journalism, Washington
Robert J. Rosenthal, Executive Director, Center for Investigative Reporting, Berkeley, Calif.
Wendy Ruderman, Reporter, Philadelphia Daily News
Alan Rusbridger, Editor-in-chief, Guardian Newspapers
Mark E. Russell, Print/News Manager, Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel
Ken Sands, digital consultant
Jan Schaffer, Executive Director, J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism, Washington
Eric Schmidt, chairman and CEO, Google Inc.
Howard S. Schneider, Dean, School of Journalism, SUNY, Stony Brook
Zachary Seward, Outreach Editor, The Wall Street Journal, New York
Jack Shafer, Senior Editor, Slate
Ted Sherman, Reporter, The Star-Ledger
Ann Silvio, The Boston Globe
William Dean Singleton, Vice Chairman and CEO, MediaNews Group, Denver
Evan Smith, Chief Executive Officer, Texas Tribune
Rex Smith, Editor, Times Union, Albany, N.Y.
Steven R. Swartz, President, Hearst Newspapers, New York
Matt Thompson, Editorial Product Manager, National Public Radio, Washington
Eric Umansky, Co-founder, DocumentCloud
Jose Antonio Vargas, Technology and Innovations Editor, The Huffington Post
Craig F. Walker, Staff Photographer, The Denver Post
Mark Walker, vice president, Yahoo! News
Butch Ward, Managing Director, The Poynter Institute, St. Petersburg, Fla.
Amy Webb, Founder, Webbmedia Group, Baltimore
David Wright, National Public Radio
Jose Zamora, Journalism Associate, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Miami
Michael Zimbalist, V.P., Research & Development Operations, The New York Times Co.