Começa amanhã em Austin a 9ª edição do Simpósio Internacional sobre Jornalismo Online, uma promoção da Cátedra Knight de Jornalismo e da Cátedra Unesco de Comunicação da University of Texas, e que tem por trás o brasileiro Rosenthal Calmon Alves.

A programação vai até sábado, e resumidamente, envolve essas temáticas:

• Newspapers in the Time of Cholera: A Healthy Prescription for an Ailing Industry
• Hybrid Newsroom for the Digital Age: Journalists are reorganizing their routines, learning new skills and doing their best to work for multiplatform, multimedia operations. How are integrated newsrooms (i.e., print + digital) working so far?
• Emerging Business Models: Traditional media are struggling to adapt their old business models to respond to the devastating effects of disruptive, digital technologies, while a new generation of media companies is creating fresh, innovative new models. Will those efforts result in profitable businesses that would finance journalism as it happened during the last century?
• Communities: The old, passive audiences are increasingly becoming clusters of new, active communities that still read, listen and watch the media, but demand to be read, listened and watched. Engaging those communities has become high priority for the media, but are their efforts succeeding?
• Multimedia and Interactivity: Faster Internet connections and cheaper network and storage space have paved the way to more video and audio and more database journalism projects on the Web. Are online journalists finally taking advantage of the multimedia and interactive capabilities of the Internet?
• News Games: Video games have become serious games and started playing an increasingly important role in education and professional training. Can video games now become a more common tool to help journalists to tell the story?
• All for One and One for All? A Spanish Experience of Research About Media Convergence
• Managing the Production of Online Journalism
• Social Networking and User-Generated Content
• Citizen Producers, Bloggers and the Evolution of Journalism
• Issues in Online Journalism Research

Como tenho que dar aula nesta sexta à noite e tenho compromissos familiares no sábado, vou acompanhar os debates e falações por quatro canais:

O site oficial do evento, aqui.

O blog do evento, que conta com nada mais, nada menos que 15 repórteres (!)

O blog e o Twitter do António Granado, que está lá e participa do simpósio.

Ah! Dá pra assistir por um canal de vídeo em tempo real também: aqui

Dois brasileiros estão entre os convidados das mesas, a professora Elisabeth Saad (USP) e o jornalista Fernando Rodrigues (Folha de S.Paulo).