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Continuing Education

Hearst Digital Media Programs

The William Randolph Hearst Foundation has generously underwritten two major new media initiatives at the Journalism School. They bring working professionals to the school multiple times a year in various settings to interact with our students.

Columbia Journalism Dialogues

The Journalism School examines the changing media industry, with an emphasis on digital media and online journalism. This is meant to be a different kind of panel, with a real conversation among the participants and no Powerpoint in sight. This annual program will invite new speakers each year to assess - and track - the changes taking place all around us.

Hearst Digital Media Professional-in-Residence

The Hearst Digital Media Professional-in-Residence is appointed each calendar year to participate in the educational activities of the school. The Hearst Professional is typically a senior journalist who works at the highest levels of the industry. He or she participates in classes and programs, critiques student work, and delivers an annual lecture to the school and the New York digital media community in April. The appointment has been made possible by a generous gift from the William Randolph Hearst Foundation. Columbia welcomes nominations for this position. Please contact Prof. Sreenath Sreenivasan.


 
 
The Changing Media Landscape 2009
November 16, 2009
The 2009 panel included:
  • Julia Angwin, Wall Street Journal technology editor and columnist; author, "Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America"
  • John Borthwick, CEO of Betaworks, a new media company that builds, and invests in real-time Web companies, including bit.ly, Twitter, TweetDeck, Tumblr, Outside.in and gdgt
  • Alan Levy, founder, BlogTalkRadio.com, an internet-radio network offering free call-in talk shows, and Cinchcast.com, a new tool for micro-podcasting
  • David Mathison, author, "Be The Media: How to Create and Accelerate Your Message... Your Way" and former vice president for global syndication for Reuters
  • Jennifer Preston, first (and current) social media editor of New York Times and former New York Times reporter, editor and newsroom manager

Tweet about this event using #columbiajh


 
 
"How We Got Here and How We Get Out of Here"
By Ken Lerer

April 23, 2009
Read the transcript
Ken Lerer is the co-founder and chairman of The Huffington Post and the 2008-09 Hearst New Media Professional-in-Residence at the school.


Video by Alan Haburchak '09, Karn Dhingra '09 and Chris Kieffer '09
 
 
The Changing Media Landscape 2008
November 11, 2008
Columbia J-school's annual look at the media revolution, with several media influencers - and no Powerpoint! Columbia-Hearst Journalism Dialogues and the Columbia Journalism Alumni Association present:
• Sewell Chan, blogger/editor, The New York Times "City Room" blog (from midtown)
• Adriano Farano, executive editor, CafeBabel.com (from Paris)
• Erica Smith, news designer, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and "Paper Cuts" blog (from St. Louis)
• Jacob Weisberg, chairman, Slate (from midtown)

 
 
The Changing Media Landscape 2007
November 13, 2007
A panel discussion addressed the current state of the news industry. Speakers included:

  • Josh Cohen, business product manager, Google News
  • Hossein "Hoder" Derakhshan, an Iranian-born blogger, journalist, and Internet activist
  • Jonathan Dube '97, director of digital programming, CBC, Toronto, www.jondube.com
  • Andrew Lih, author of a new book on Wikipedia and an expert on Chinese media, www.andrewlih.com
  • Mindy McAdams, new media education pioneer and Knight professor at the University of Florida, www.mindymcadams.com
  • Michael Rogers, resident futurist, The New York Times, michaelrogers.com
  • Sreenath Sreenivasan, dean of students, Columbia Journalism School and WNBC-EV tech reporter

View the Webcast produced by GroundReport.com

 
 
Adrian Holovaty
April 19, 2007
Adrian Holovaty, editor of editorial innovations at washingtonpost.com, 2007 Hearst New Media Lecturer at Columbia and one of the most exciting and influential young minds in journalism (bio).
 
 
The Changing Media Landscape 2006
November 14, 2006

Panelists: Bill Grueskin, editor, WSJ.com; Michelle Leder of Footnoted.org; Kevin Sites, correspondent, Yahoo's Kevin Sites in the Hotzone; Rex Smith, editor of the Albany Times Union; and Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia.
Read more...
E&P's Anna Crane
NewAssignment.net's Ahmed Eldin
Poynter.org's Adam Glenn
Former NBC producer Mark Westin's audio blog
Reports and get podcasts from Poynter.org
Footnoted.org


 
 
Dan Gillmor - Trends in New Media
April 27, 2006
Read more and listen on the Poynter.org site
 
 
The Changing Media Landscape 2005
November 06, 2005
Panel Discussion with Craig Newmark and four veteran journalists included Len Apcar, editor in chief, NYTimes.com; Craig Newmark, founder, craigslist; Andrea Panciera, editor, ProJo.com; Jeff Gralnick, NBC News special consultant; and James Taranto. The discussion was moderated by Professor Sree Sreenivasan, dean of students, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
Read more on the Poynter.org site and download the podcast
 
 
Neal Scarbrough - Lessons from the Cutting Edge
May 10, 2005
Neal Neal Scarbrough, ESPN News Editor
Former editor-in-chief, ESPN.com (2001-2005)
2005 Hearst New Media Professional-in-Residence at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
 
 
Jack Shafer - Spinning Into Control: The Good News About the Second Generation of Web Journalism
April 29, 2004
Jack Shafer, press critic and editor at large for Slate; 2004 Hearst New Media Professional-in-Residence at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Listen
(RealPlayer required)
 
 
Michael Moran - War Coverage in the Internet Age
April 22, 2003
Michael Moran Senior producer, special reports and international news, MSNBC Hearst New Media Professional in Residence, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
Listen
(RealPlayer required)
 
 
Rich Jaroslovsky - The Net and the Pendulum: Lessons Learned with the Benefit of 20-20 Hindsight
December 12, 2000
Rich Jaroslovsky Managing Editor, Wall Street Journal Online Executive Director, Editorial, Dow Jones Interactive Publishing Hearst New Media Professional in Residence, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
Listen
(RealPlayer required)
 
 
Dan Okrent - The Death of Print
December 14, 1999
The Death of Print is going to happen, sooner than you may think. The word "Internet" was all but unknown in the U.S. six years ago, and Time Inc., which had not yet even imagined its potential impact, had no one working in the Internet arena. Today, the Internet is inescapable; through the advent of Email, it is ubiquitous. In the financial markets, it as essential as dollars. Throughout Time Warner, more than 1,000 people are developing copyrighted internet product, or marketing it to consumers. Someday, we may even make money at it.