Featured Session by Daniel Terdiman, Rose Gottemoeller on Friday 8th March
As the nature of diplomacy has changed since the Cold War, the Department of State has embraced new tools and is reaching out to those behind these new tools. Rose ...
Solo / Dual / Panel by Edmund Lee, Greg Galant, Joe Ciarallo, Mike Isaac on Saturday 9th March
As social media destroys previous conceptions of reporters, their sources and the "audience," journalism is being re-defined by the minute. It's also letting people on all sides of the equation ...
Future15 by Ted Rall on Saturday 9th March
Political cartooning has been around since ancient Rome and is more popular with readers than ever before. Now that print media is being replaced with online distribution channels, however, they're ...
Solo / Dual / Panel by Adam Rogers, Dylan Byers, Maria Streshinsky, Scott Stossel, Nicole Allan on Saturday 9th March
The unspoken consensus in media is that in order to “make it,” it's necessary to spend some time in the East. Because, of course, the financial and governing epicenters are ...
Mentor Session by Helen Klein Ross on Saturday 9th March
A new addition to SXSW Interactive in 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more ...
At Hilton Garden Inn Austin Downtown, 10th Floor Atrium (map)
Solo / Dual / Panel by Cherilyn Parsons, Jonathan McNamara, Meghann Farnsworth, Tanya Erlach on Saturday 9th March
As for-profit news organizations struggle to maintain previous levels of reporting, nonprofit news organizations are proliferating to fill the gap in coverage. These new nonprofit media outlets are experiencing the ...
Future15 by Zanab Hussain on Saturday 9th March
In many ways, data science is a natural extension of journalism. Traditionally, reporters would conduct a number of interviews and use a qualitative approach to craft a story. Similarly, data ...
Featured Session by Clay Johnson on Saturday 9th March
The industrialization of food brought upon mass obesity. The industrialization of media brings about a new kind of mass-ignorance that comes not from the lack of information but from the ...
on Saturday 9th March
Knight Foundation and the MIT Media Lab are sponsoring a gathering that includes a demo fair and live music!
At The Parish (map)
Solo / Dual / Panel by John Boyer, Katie Pritchard on Sunday 10th March
Enough of caped crusaders, crazed criminals and post-apocalyptic kooks! Despite talk of graphic novels as a maturing, alternative art form, most of the genre is still dedicated to elementary entertainment...but ...
At Omni Downtown, Longhorn (map)
Solo / Dual / Panel by James Grimaldi, Kevin Helliker, Laura Sturaitis, Liv Buli on Sunday 10th March
The advent of the Web marked the best and worst of times for journalism: Hyper-local and citizen news, the decline of print and rise of pay walls, reporters learning new ...
At Wanderlust, Wanderlust (map)
Solo / Dual / Panel by Garrett Goodman, Paul Egglestone, Tom Metcalfe on Sunday 10th March
Print is dead. Long live print. Tom Pain's 21st century pamphlet connects to the internet to showcase user generated content from activists in Syria and bloggers in Preston (UK). The ...
Future15 by Shauna Dillavou on Sunday 10th March
Citizen journalism through social media platforms helps deliver truth into mainstream reporting and ensure community safety in places with oppressive regimes. But what happens when, as in Mexico today, truth ...
Solo / Dual / Panel by Amy O'Leary, Matthew Danzico on Sunday 10th March
This presentation by BBC reporter and video jouranlist Matt Danzico will discuss the neurological and evolutionary underpinnings of storytelling, i.e. what parts of the brain are affected when a narrative ...
Solo / Dual / Panel by Burt Herman, Justin Arenstein, Mariano Blejman on Sunday 10th March
Hacker journalism is going global. The Hacks/Hackers movement has spread around the world, and this panel will bring together organizers from Africa, South America, the Middle East and the U.S. ...
At Omni Downtown, Longhorn (map)
Solo / Dual / Panel by Chris Anderson, Erin Rapacki, Nabiha Syed, Ryan Calo on Sunday 10th March
Drones often get cast as dystopian killing machines, or Big Brother's newest eyes-in-the-sky. But drones are here to stay -- and coming to a sky near you as soon as ...
At Omni Downtown, Longhorn (map)
Solo / Dual / Panel by Andy Carvin, Ayman Mohyeldin, Jim Frederick, Meredith Artley on Sunday 10th March
What arguably started with the Arab Spring (witnesses participating in the "news" process directly via Twitter and Facebook has only intensified--and evolved, now employing Instagram and social video). This is ...
Featured Session by Craig Newmark, Kelly McBride on Sunday 10th March
Trust in traditional news sources is at an all-time low. Trust in new start-up newsrooms is even lower. Why is this? Craig Newmark (yes, that Craig Newmark) and Kelly McBride ...
Solo / Dual / Panel by Pete Cashmore on Monday 11th March
The Internet has grown exponentially throughout the years. It has gone from a place that no one understood to a world that no one can take their eyes off of. ...
At Long Center, Dell Hall (map)
Accelerator by Tony Conrad, John Cantarella, Vivian Schiller, Andrew Rasiej on Monday 11th March
News Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges. Emcee: Tony Conrad Judges: John Cantarella, Vivian Schiller, Andrew Rasiej Finalist: Meograph, ...
At Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon B (map)
Keynote by Joshua Topolsky, Julie Uhrman on Monday 11th March
Indie developers and open source principles provide the power and the passion for the SXSW Interactive Festival. With this core value of community collaboration in mind, we are very pleased ...
Solo / Dual / Panel by John Keefe, Matt Waite, Nadav Aharony, Sarah Williams on Monday 11th March
The vast majority of data journalism is based on data collected by the government. What if the government doesn't keep the data you need? What if that data is incomplete ...
At Omni Downtown, Longhorn (map)
Solo / Dual / Panel by Eric Price, Margaret Sullivan on Monday 11th March
In the age of constantly evolving news, newsrooms are confronted by the dilemma of how to archive their content for posterity. This is especially true in the case of breaking ...
Solo / Dual / Panel by Bill Adair, Steve Myers on Monday 11th March
After the Tampa Bay Times won a Pulitzer Prize for PolitiFact, its groundbreaking fact-checking operation, other newspapers wanted to get in the game and start their own PolitiFact sites. Editor ...
Future15 by Mando Rayo on Monday 11th March
Join Mando Rayo, a self-appointed Taco Journalist as he shares his unique perspective on the niche food blog, TacoJournalism.com. Mando and the Taco Mafia canvas Austin and beyond to explore ...
on Monday 11th March
Geeks from Gangnam is an event with an International flavor. We invite anyone who wants to network and build connections with people from all across the world, while enjoying live ...
At Moonshine Grill (map)
Solo / Dual / Panel by Ahmed Ghappour, Jillian York, Sahar Sabet, Trevor Timm on Tuesday 12th March
We now know that technology plays an important role in activism, allowing for ease of communication and the rallying of support, among other things. In the 2009 Iran protests and ...
Accelerator by Bob Metcalfe, Brad King, Robert Capps, Sue Gardner, Alberto Ibarguen on Tuesday 12th March
News Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges. Emcees: Bob Metcalfe, Brad King Judges: Rob Capps, Sue Gardner, Alberto Ibarguen ...
Core Conversation by Mark Briggs, Mandy Jenkins on Tuesday 12th March
It's well-known that publishing and/or broadcasting news has gone from a one-way lecture to a multi-directional conversation. This core conversation will discuss the many ways that journalists and news companies ...
At Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol, Capitol View South (map)
Featured Session by Jane Pratt on Tuesday 12th March
Jane Pratt, founder of Jane and Sassy magazines, reveals what went on behind the scenes as she burnt bridges, said things she shouldn't say out loud, and built a platform ...
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