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Goldberg

Kevin M. Goldberg is a member of the law firm of Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth, P.L.C., will focus on some of the legal problems accompanying the increasing use of social media by editors, reporters and other employees of media entities that are making this a regular part of their jobs, as well as some of the measures you can take to limit your potential liability.

The first half of the presentation will focus on some of the early lawsuits or legal controversies involving social media that generally lacks editorial oversight.  Whether it’s a blog, an official Twitter account, a personal Facebook page (or vice-versa), your publication might be held liable for any number of issues, including defamation, copyright or trademark infringement or even things you might generally not consider to be problems, like violation of the FTC’s endorsement guidelines. 

The second half will focus on what you can do to protect yourself.  Learn about language you can include on your website to limit liability from content posted by 3rd parties  and what actions you might be able to take – and, more importantly, actions you cannot take – against an employee who threatens your company’s image via a caustic Tweet or Facebook post.

Specifically, you will learn about:

• The current legal controversy over “ownership” of a Twitter feed.
• The very simple way to protect yourself from copyright infringement liability for content posted by commenters to your blogs or website.
• How you might be able to amend or edit your employee procedure manual or handbook to make sure that Tweeting employees don’t tarnish the company’s image.

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, share their assessments of the new content and delivery strategy and what knowledge and lessons can be shared by other news organizations. Moderated by Linda Grist Cunningham.

Presenters: Charlotte Hall, ASNE president; senior vice president/editor, The Orlando Sentinel; Pam Fine, Knight Chair on the Press, Leadership and Community, University of Kansas and Bobbi Bowman, ASNE diversity/membership director.

ASNE unveils the findings of its 2009 newsroom census.

Jasper

Hubbard

This session gets you up to speed on the rapidly changing digital landscape – covering not just the new tools but the new approaches you need to create powerful messages that capture attention. It covers what it means to work in a massive communications world, the rise of data visualizations and the influence of the back channel. Also provides insights into new monitoring techniques and how you can use them to track what people are saying online about you, your beat and issues relevant to your work.

During this webinar, you will learn:

• How to better understand the complexity of the digital media landscape
• How to recognize how a new tone, new tools and new strategies are needed to connect to an audience and share key messages
• How cutting edge technologies are being used to monitor what people are saying about you and your beat

Cuslidge

Gauger

Zaltsberg

While paid content initiatives at The New York Times and metropolitan newspapers such as The Dallas Morning News are garnering attention, small and mid-size newspapers have been at the vanguard of charging readers for access to digital content.

A conversation with a panel of editors that includes Bob Zaltsberg, editor of the Herald-Times in Bloomington, Ind., Jeff Gauger, editor, The Repository in Canton, and Tara Cuslidge, online editor, Record.net. This session will be moderated by Mizell Stewart III, editor of the Evansville (Ind.) Courier & Press and chair of the ASNE Leadership Development Committee.

This session is the recording of a live chat. Panelists share ideas about business models and respond to questions and comments from attendees. This discussion focuses on avenues revenue beyond the paywall issue.

Journalism 2.0 author/blogger, Mark Briggs, is former assistant managing editor for interactive news at The News Tribune in Tacoma, Wash. Mark left the newsroom to start Serra Media, which has developed Newsgarden, a tool to let users find the news and deals in their neighborhoods and to help journalists, community members and businesses organize news and advertising by location. He will discuss the hyperlocal opportunities that most news companies are missing.

Charlotte-Anne Lucas, is a Web veteran who has been managing editor of TheStreet.com and content director of MySanAntonio.com, both of which became profitable during her tenure. She is project manager for NOWCast SA, a nonprofit citizen journalism startup.  Charlotte-Anne has clear and insightful views on how to succeed in the digital world. Her blog post Choosing the digital printing press provides a thoughtful look at the tools we need to serve a digital audience and Newspapers don’t own journalism helps us understand how digital journalism is growing and thriving even as newspapers struggle.

Digital journalism pioneer Steve Outing, is Stop the Presses! columnist for Editor & Publisher Online. He was a senior editor for the Poynter Institute and started his own web-media company that closed in 2007. Steve’s column, Getting Money from Readers Who Won’t Pay for Online News, was an important contribution to the paid-content discussion. He suggested that a news organization could keep a large audience by offering its basic content free, but develop a membership model providing high-value to people who choose to pay for the extra benefits, such as exclusive discounts from advertisers. Steve had some interesting observations on the future of news business models from last week’s conference at the Aspen Institute.

Dan Conover, has filled newsroom roles ranging from city editor to Web editor to cartoonist. Last year, just three years after being named South Carolina’s Journalist of the Year, Dan took a buyout last year from the Post and Courier in Charleston, S.C. He now freelances and writes for the Xark blog. Dan’s post 2020 vision: What’s next for news? was one of the most thoughtful things I’ve read about where journalism and our business may be heading.

Steve Buttry, innovation coach at Gazette Communications, co-chair of the ASNE Innovation Committee and author of A Blueprint for the Complete Community Connection. Steve will join these four in Thursday’s live chat. He will address his belief that we need a new revenue approach, based on facilitating transactions, rather than just showing ads to lots of people.

Presenters: Saundra Keyes, journalism professor, University of Nevada, Reno and Kurt Greenbaum, online news director, St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Readers' comments are here to stay, whether we like them or not. And while the research is mixed about its affect on the credibility of our news organizations, the latest generation of readers expects to be able to participate. Our challenge as journalists: How can we provide a welcoming and safe place for the conversation that does honor to the work of our colleagues and invites candid discussion?

Thea Breite, senior multimedia editor/video for The Boston Globe, will lead the discussion.

During this seminar, you will learn:

• The ingredients of strong web video: Visuals, audio, storytelling and editing.
• How to find the people in the newsroom who have skills that convert to great video storytelling.
• What senior editors can do to support video.
• How to tell what your audience watches and when they stop watching.

Mark Cardwell, managing editor, The Denver Post, is the presenter for this nuts-and-bolts session on social media:

• 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.

Charlotte Hall, 2008-09 ASNE president and senior vice president/editor, Orlando Sentinel, moderates a wide-ranging conversation about the future of Tribune and the industry with Lee Abrams, Tribune Company's chief innovation officer.

Is Leonard Downie Jr. right when he says that designating FCC fees and funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting are acceptable means to strengthen local journalism and accountability reporting?

Marty Kaiser, 2009-10 ASNE president and editor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel moderates a candid discussion with Len Downie about The Reconstruction of American Journalism report.

Downie is 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. Downie co-wrote the report with Michael Schudson, a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. The report, commissioned by the j-school, says journalism is being reinvented in promising ways.

The report here.

That question are addressed during an hourlong ASNE webinar on the basics of newsgathering law, with a special focus on issues related to the Internet.

What you learn:

• What is a copyright and when can I use a photo I found on the Web?
• What do I need to worry about when a user posts something defamatory on my site?

This webinar will be conducted by David M. Giles, deputy general counsel and chief ethics officer for The E. W. Scripps Company.

Russell

Cutter

When a local story becomes fodder for a nonstop gabfest on cable television, how do you keep your newsroom focused on the real story?

Editor Mark Russell and the staff of the Orlando Sentinel have found themselves in just such a situation with Caylee Anthony’s disappearance and the trial of her mother, Casey, on murder charges.

Russell and digital editor John Cutter lead this discussion of how a combination of old-fashioned reporting, social media, live chats and continuous updates have helped the Sentinel drive audience on a story that is literally unfolding outside the newsroom’s front door.

Bowman

Cohn

Overberg

Stewart

The unveiling of the historic 2010 Census begins Christmas week with a huge story about power, money and politics.

The U.S. Census Bureau must report to the president by the end of the year the nation's population and apportionment of seats to each state in the U.S. House of Representatives.

ASNE Diversity consultant Bobbi Bowman will moderate this session about how the country is really breaking apart North and South and about the huge stakes involved in dividing up the power in Congress and the state legislatures. She will be joined by D'Vera Cohn, senior writer at the Pew Research Center, Washington; Paul Overberg, database editor at USA TODAY, McLean, Va.; and Mizell Stewart, editor of the Evansville (Ill.) Courier & Press.

During this webinar, you will learn:

• How your readers understand exactly what the census means to them.
• How to identify new emerging political centers – for instance, immigrant communities.
• How to map demographic changes.

Bowman

Cohn

Doig

Hargrove

The U.S. Census Bureau has begun issuing state figures — which are fodder for good news stories. But, how do you sort through the data and make sense of it all?

This is the third installment of the ASNE webinar series on interpreting and covering the U.S. Census numbers. Presenters: D'Vera Cohn, Stephen Doig, Thomas Hargrove. Moderated by Bobbi Bowman.

Anger

Wolman

Cunningham

Six months after the launch of Detroit's new publication plan, Linda Grist Cunningham leads a discussion with Detroit editors Paul Anger and Jon Wolman about what lessons other news organizations can learn from their experience.

Boardman

Chan

Fladung

Goldberg

Lunzer

We're working in tough economic times, and newsrooms across America have downsized, some repeatedly. Newsroom diversity has stalled. In union newsrooms with strict seniority layoff clauses, people of color (and many younger employees of all races), often the most recently hired, are the first let go. Other newsrooms have seen diversity fall sharply as talented minorities flee for more stable fields. This webinar will explore how editors can try to retain diversity in an age of budget cuts, rebuild a diverse staff and work with the union on this important issue.

Moderator by Susan Goldberg with panelists David Boardman, Sharon Chan, Thom Fladung, and Bernard Lunzer

Peck

Stewart

A more detailed look, analysis and discussion about the recent ASNE technology survey which showed that editors spend fewer hours on planning and discussing news coverage or working directly with their staffs because of the time they spend learning about new technology. Editors are encouraged to join in this lively, interactive conversation. Presenters: Chris Peck and Mizell Stewart III.

Even with staff reductions and increasing demands for websites, 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 share ideas and solutions to address this key need. 

One of a series of webinars led by David Stoeffler focusing on small newspapers.

Bessen

Hussman

Seaton

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?

Lovely

Christofferson

Saunders

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. The Arizona Republic through content, marketing, advertising sales, and circulation sales has seen success.

Hear about some of their efforts from key news, marketing and circulation executives — Randy Lovely, Brooke Christofferson, Jack Saunders and Michael Gorman.

• Research to understand consumers' wants and needs on Sunday.
• Watchdog journalism efforts focused on key topics.
• Cross-departmental special projects.
• Marketing messaging and tactics.
• Circulation sales and retention efforts.

Led by Editor Michael Days and his staff, this ASNE webinar delved into the editing and reporting process behind Tainted Justice, which exposed corruption among members of an elite narcotics squad on the Philadelphia police force. Over a period of 10 months, the paper uncovered allegations against officers that included committing sexual assaults, disabling surveillance cameras during drug raids to hide their theft and other misdeeds, and filing fraudulent warrants.

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.

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.

One of a series of webinars led by David Stoeffler focusing on small newspapers.

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.

Steve Buttry, information content conductor, Gazette Communications, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 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.

Steve Buttry, information content conductor, Gazette Communications, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 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 leads a panel discussion using CoverItLive and invites other newsroom leaders to share their liveblogging experience.

Having more sleepless nights lately worrying about mistakes getting into the paper or on the website? David Stoeffler leads this webinar about key techniques for setting and maintaining high expectations for quality and productivity in your newsroom. Participants share ideas and discuss some of the tradeoffs involved in staffing decisions while balancing the increasing demands of print and digital publishing.

One of a series of webinars focusing on small newspapers.

Mike Fancher leads the discussion on how editors can better serve readers with new technologies, while transfering key journalistic values to online and leveraging them to separate us from competitors.

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.

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. Moderated by Scott Anderson

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?

• Case Study: A look at how the Detroit Free Press handled the corporate mandate of a new entertainment website, 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.
  • Panelist: Managing Editor Digital Media Nancy Andrews with Metromix Editor BJ Hammerstein and Metromix Web Producer Ese Esan.
  • Brand: Our brand is everything to us, but should it be? What does your brand mean in your market to different audiences and advertisers? How do you get the newsroom to embrace another brand?
  • Different Content Type: Rich in data and utility, this is not your regular 15-inch story or 10-picture photo gallery. What are the different ways to evaluate the quality and value of your staff’s work? How do you motivate staff to do different work than they are accustomed to producing?
    Making someone else’s idea your own: How do you motivate the historically newspaper newsroom to see the connection to their core values in something like an Entertainment Web site.
• Case Study: Can’t we just do it? We all want change fast but we sometimes operate at a snail’s pace. We’ll look at the San Jose Mercury News and what happened when some photography staffers took matters in their own hands and created a multimedia website, mercurynewsphoto.com. This is actually somewhat typical of how many news organizations started online. How do we tap into that innovation again some 10 years later?
  • Panelist: Director of Photography Geri Migielicz and staff at the San Jose Mercury News.
  • How to handle great ideas and doers in the newsroom: How do you tap into the doers in your newsroom and let them run with it? What are the benefits and pitfalls? We walk through this case study. How do you reward breaking the rules?
  • Bringing innovation into the fold: In 2008, the main Mercury News Web site started housing multimedia. What has that change done for the site and the audience? How is innovation still working?

Howry

Meese

Could your staff use a little help in improving its use of the iPhone in story coverage?

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.

During this webinar, you will learn: 

• Tips, tricks and accessories to maximize the video, audio and photo capabilities of the iPhone.
• The best apps for editing in the field — fine tune your photos, create your audio slideshows and edit your videos wherever you are.
• Quality and timeliness — transmitting speed comes at the cost of image-quality reduction. We'll explore a variety of options for uploading content.

Four months ago, The New York Times launched its new digital subscription plan, which generated widespread, international interest.

Now, everyone wants to know how it's going.

In this ASNE webinar Paul Smurl, vice president, NYTimes.com Paid Products, talks about the plan and takes questions about its impact. The discussion is moderated by Mizell Stewart III, editor of the Evansville (Ind.) Courier & Press and co-chair of the 2011-12 ASNE Leadership Development Committee.

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. Mark Silverman, editor and vp/content and audience development, The Tennessean, leads the webinar. 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.

Presenter Ken Doctor talks about ...

• The Aggregation Push: How Less Can Create a Lot More.
• What Games the Tablet Changes.
• The New Social-News Link.
• How the “Paid Content” Landscape is Sorting Itself Out — and Why.

The 2010 census is one of the most historic in U.S. history. Editors from around the country talk about their coverage plans. These editors represent 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.

Panelists: Julie Martin, managing editor, The Star News, Wilmington, N.C. ; Charlotte Hall, editor, The Orlando Sentinel, and Jeff Taylor, senior managing editor, Detroit Free Press. Moderator: Bobbi Bowman, ASNE diversity consultant

David Stoeffler will lead 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 discuss the role these pages play, especially in smaller communities, and share ideas about key issues, such as the value of endorsements and where to find a steady stream of good topics for editorials.

This is the fourth in an ASNE series focusing on small newspapers. Stoeffler is former vice president for news of Lee Enterprises and now principal of Touchstone News Consulting.

Moderator: Susan Goldberg, editor, The Plain Dealer
Presenters: David Shribman, executive editor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Neil Brown, executive editor, St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times.

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.

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.

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

Cherwa

Franklin

Goldberg

Tomlin

Faced with restrictive sports credentials?

Hear from the experts what you can do to fight back. Join John Cherwa of The Los Angeles Times; ASNE Legal Counsel Kevin M. Goldberg and David Tomlin, Associate General Counsel of the Associated Press. The session will be moderated by Tim Franklin, ASNE Freedom of Information Committee Co-Chair and the Louis A. Weil Jr. Endowed Chair at the Indiana University School of Journalism.

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.

Roger Fidler, the leading industry visionary and pioneer in digital publishing, shares insights and trends from this spring’s update to the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute and Digital Publishing Alliance national iPad survey. The survey included a look at how iPad users consume news content. Fidler is RJI’s program director for digital publishing and director of the DPA.

This webinar gives news-organization leaders valuable, actionable information and strategies to move forward with a tablet strategy.

What you will learn:

• Who is using the iPad and how they are using it.
• Projections for tablet news and adoption rates now through the end of 2012.
• Recommendations on news apps and how to get started.
• What opportunities exist for news organizations.