Registration - 4th INJO Conference

Written 03.05.2007 13:07 by Lina Bunis Print Send article

The fourth conference on Innovation Journalism will take place at Stanford University on May 21-23, 2007. Pre-register now in order to secure your place, 178 participants already registered and the conference is soon to be held.

The Innovation Journalism Initiative, lead by David Nordfors, arranges the event with the purpose to discuss the state-of-the-art on reporting on innovation, the interaction of news with the innovation ecosystem and how to address it in public innovation policy.

With the theme Journalism Driving Innovation - Innovation Driving Journalism, the conference aims to improve the understanding of how journalism and innovation drive each other and to identify the key components of innovation journalism.

During three days, journalists, professionals connected to the media/communications industry, innovation experts, students and researchers will gather to discuss the relation between innovation and journalism, how to cover innovation in the news and how journalism links innovation with society. Journalism is an important independent actor in innovation ecosystems today, but innovation is still under-represented in the news.

Participants will examine the innovation ecosystem as a playing field for journalism and new strategies that will allow media outlets to deliver quality news using the latest technology and to thrive in a competitive marketplace.

Douglas Engelbart (inventor of the mouse & a father of the concept of human-computer interaction) and Curtis Carlson (President SRI International) are invited as keynote speakers on the themes "Augmenting the collective IQ of writers and readers" (Engelbart) and "The discipline of innovation" (Carlson). Engelbart will be introduced by John Markoff, senior writer from the New York Times.

Visit www.innovationjournalism.org/conference for more information and to register.