John Donley, web site editor for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Times-Picayune of New Orleans, has been added as a participant in "Democracy & Independence: Sharing News & Politics in a Connected World," the first Media Giraffe Project roundtable summit June 28-July 1 at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
At the Times-Picayune, Donley edits both the paper's main affiliate, and other sites operated by Advance Internet in the Crescent City devastated by Hurricane Katrina. He came from San Antonio's Express-News to launch the site eight years ago, after more than 20 years in the newspaper business. He has been a professional journalist for almost 30 years, at newspapers and newspaper websites in Iowa, Texas and Louisiana.
Donley will discuss the lessons learned by journalists about the power of the Internet post-Katrina, and the ways technology and many-to-many communication is changing the news buisiness. His participation is sponsored by MassLive and The Republican newspaper of Springfield, Mass., an sister website and publication in the Advance Internet group.
A combination roundtable summit, workshop and conference on how the web and multimedia are redefining journalism and participatory democracy. For media, politics, education and technology visionaries and practitioners. Organized by The Media Giraffe Project and sponsored in part by the university, The Boston Globe, MassLive/Advance Internet the New England Press Association
and Omidyar Network.
Participants will include Boston Globe Editor Marty Baron, Boston.com Editor Teresa Hanafin, White House columnist Helen Common Cause's Chellie Pingree, veteran political strategic Richard Viguerie, Free Press' Josh Silver, and other visionaries and practitioners in journalism, politics, education and technolgy.
Links to: WHO'S COMING . . . LATEST NEWS . . . PROGRAM / REGISTRATION.
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