South by Southwest Interactive
South by Southwest has announced its picks for the 2012 Interactive conference, to be held March 9-13 in Austin, Texas. Among the featured speakers: Baratunde Thurston, director of digital for The Onion; Arianna Huffington, whose talk is titled “Content as a Means for Social Change, and Nick Denton, speaking on the “Mediocrity of Comment.” The technology/gaming/Web/culture conference has a journalism track again with more than 50 panels. Several that look promising (the names in parentheses are the moderators; click the links to see who else is speaking):
- Journalism’s Got 99 Problems: Design is #1 (Tyson Evans, The New York Times)
- Vetting in the Age of Social: Who Do You Trust? (Tom Miale, PR Newswire)
- Skills & Bills: Can News Be a Product to Sell? (Justin Ellis, Nieman Journalism Lab)
- Reporters & Evangelists: Politics of Online News (Prajwal Ciryam, Partisans.org)
- 140 Characters Vs. 14000 Words: The New Long Form (Jocelyn Nubel, Slate)
- Content and Coding is Not a Commodity: How (Jennifer 8. Lee, Hacks/Hackers)
- The Hyperlocal Hoax: Where’s the Holy Grail? (Mike Orren, Orren Media)
- The Curators and the Curated (Max Linsky, longform.org)
- What Journalism Can Learn from Science (Matt Thompson)
- Audience-Centric Media: Wants and Needs in News (Gabriel Sama, Rest of the World Media)
- When Copyright Trolls Attack (Eva Galperin, Electronic Frontier Foundation)
- Bad Raps Revised: News Entrepreneurs Sweat Tough Stuff (Jan Schaffer, J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism)
In addition, Poynter’s Stephen Buckley will moderate a session called “Storytelling Beyond Words: New Forms of Journalism,” and I’ll do a panel with Sohaib Athar called “Tweeting Osama’s Death: From Citizen to Journalist,” inspired by this reporting and the reaction. Share your session recommendations in the comments.
