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AUDIO: Ramana Rao, iCurrent founder, at Denver "Individuated News" event

Listen as Ramana Rao, founder of iCurrent.com, explains how his news personalization service works for consumers. Rao spoke at the Individuated News conference hosted by MediaNews Group Inc., at the Denver Post on June 22, 2010.  Click on the carat of the bar to the right to stream audio of the 43-minute discussion, or download an MP3 podcast for offline listening. (10.47MB)  Rao's slide deck can also be viewed here.

AUDIO: Tech tools, trials and tradeoffs for trust, identity

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- What are the technology tools, trails and tradeoffs for trust, identity and commerce on the web? Listen as Clickshare Service Corp. CEO Richard Lerner leads the discussion at a breakout session June 24, 2010 during the event: "From Blueprint to Building: Making the Market for Digital Information," at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, Missouri School of Journalism. Click on the carat to the left of the bar below to launch streaming audio (1 hour, 24 mins.), or download an MP3 podcast for offline listening. (20.29MB) 

AUDIO: Building revenue/readership in digital ecosystem

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- What are some ideas for building revenue and readership in the evolving digital-media ecosystem? CircLabs Inc. executive Martin Langeveld, and Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) felow Stephanie Padgett lead on June 24, 2010 a breakout session to answer that question during the symposium, "From Blueprint to Building: Making the Market for Digital Information," at RJI. Click on the carat to the left of the bar below to launch streaming audio (1 hour, 14 mins.), or download an MP3 podcast for offline listening. (17.74MB) 

AUDIO: The Newspapers Matter Project

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Do newspapers matter to their civic life of their communities? Esther Thorson, research director at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, Missouri School of Journalism, wants to answer that question with facts. Thorson outlines a proposed research project: "Newspapers and Community: Documenting the Connection -- the Newspapers Matter Project," during a June 24, 2010, talk to editors and publishers at the institute. With Thorson is Univ. of Missouri economist Jeff Milyo. (See: http://www.infotrust.org) Click on the carat to the left of the bar below to launch streaming audio (50 minutes), or download an MP3 podcast for offline listening. (12.0MB) 

AUDIO: Antitrust and collective action: A matter of intent

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- In this 40-minute summary and Q&A, University of Missouri law professor Thomas Lambert describes the basis of U.S. antitrust law and enforcement, in the context of potential collaboration amount newspapers. (VIEW LAMBERT'S SLIDES) Lambert addressed approximately 30 publishers, industry executives, researchers and academics on June 24, 2010, during the conference, "From Blueprint to Building: Making the Market for Digital Information," at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, at the Missouri School of Journalism. (see: http://www.infotrust.org) Click on the carat of the bar below to launch the audio stream (40 mins., 31 secs.), or download an MP3 podcast for offline listening. (9.7MB)  Also see: "From Paper to Persona," (Aug. 4, 2011 white paper about formation of the Information Trust Assocation).

AUDIO: Charging for content: A discussion among editors at ASNE April 13

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A sober discussion about a hot topic -- should news organizations charge for online content -- played out April 13, 2010 in Washington, D.C. The occasion was the annual meeting of the American Society of News Editors. The title of a one-hour session: "Charging for Digital Content: Fix or Folly?" Moderator was James M. Brady, digital editorial consultant, Allbritton Communications, Great Falls, Va.; Merrill Brown, founder and Principal, MMB Media, LLC (and a consultant to Journalism Online LLC), New York; Kenneth J. Doctor, Affiliate Analyst, Outsell/Content Bridges, Burlingame, Calif.; and Walter E. Hussman Jr., President and CEO, WEHCO Media, Little Rock, Ark. Click on the carat to the left of the bar below to stream the audio (1 hour, 3 minutes, 25 seconds), or download an MP3 podcast  (15.22MB) for offline listening. 
 

AUDIO: Transitioning "Assignment Detroit" -- the JTM pitch

Juanta Anderson teaches at Wayne State University in Detroit and is a former TV documentary producer at WGBH-TV and elsewhere. She is among three people proposing that Time Inc. transition its "Assignment Detroit" project to a local non-profit that would do ongoing reporting on the city. Listen to his pitch at Journalism That Matters-Detroit on June 20, 2010 at Wayne State University. Click on the carat on the right of the bar below to launch at the audio stream or download an MP3 audio file for offline listening. (Audio recording courtesy of Annie Shreffler. )