JANUARY 28: New media panel discussion
6:00 to 8:30 pm
Northern Kentucky University (University Center Rm. 238)
$12 for SPJ members and $16 for non-members

Updated 12/23 - Download the program here.

Program will tackle how journalists are navigating issues related to the Web as their job responsibilities change. What do online readers expect from their news sources? How much investigative news can and should be done online? What role does print media play in these changing times? Panelists include Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner David Umhoefer and Brad King of NKU's Media Informatics program (formerly a reporter for Wired Magazine).

Speakers:

Maria Schneider is the creator and editor of http://editorunleashed.com, a blog and forum devoted to writing and publishing. She’s the former Editor-in-Chief of Writer’s Digest magazine, where she helped develop a vibrant website and online community. Maria is also a frequent contributor to industry blogs, including the popular marketing blog Copyblogger. And just for fun, she reviews fiction for Publishers Weekly.

Jeff Syroney is the managing editor of the online magazine Soapbox Cincinnati. By day, he works as a market research specialist for Ipsos Understanding Unlimited, an international market research firm. In a previous life, Jeff spent the last 15 years working in the non-profit sector, most recently as the Executive Director of InkTank, an award winning writing and literacy center.

William Bullock is the director of new media at WCPO, Channel 9.
He is responsible for two Web sites (WCPO.com and KYPOST.com), and all other assigned new media platforms, including cell phones, podcasting, and digital channel applications. Prior to joining WCPO, he was the web director/systems administrator for CityBeat, where he spent six years overseeing the management and functionality of citybeat.com as well as creating graphical and multimedia content. William also has extensive experience in digital and print design and his clientele has included: bigg's Hypermarkets (nationwide), Wired Magazine, Metaphor Interactive, Miss USA, and Universal Music Group.

David Umhoefer is the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s local government investigative reporter. Before joining the Journal Sentinel’s Watchdog Team, Umhoefer covered Milwaukee County government for five years. He has covered governmental affairs and elections in Milwaukee for 21 years, also filing from Milwaukee city hall, the federal courthouse, and the suburbs for The Milwaukee Journal and Journal Sentinel. David recently won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting “for his stories on the skirting of tax laws to pad pensions of county employees, prompting change and possible prosecution of key figures.”

Gregory Korte is an enterprise and investigative reporter for the The Cincinnati Enquirer, where he is primarily responsible for database reporting and explanatory journalism. Gregory helped pioneered the Enquirer’s Data Center project, an ambitious effort to transform newspapers and their Web sites into to more useful, interactive sources of local information. Before that, he was the City Hall reporter for five years, covering the 2001 and 2005 mayoral elections and the 2004 presidential campaign in Ohio.

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