My keynote speech to incoming Masters Degree students, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University, July 6, 2009.
I’ve overwhelmingly tempted to quote words written for the Michael Corleone character by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola in their 1990 movie and novel The Godfather III:
“Just when I thought I was out… they pull me back in.”
Except that I’m no gangster, and I’ve somehow always expected to get back into blogging.
During 2008, however, I’d [...]
Ian Alexander Davies, 49, of Topcroft, Norfolk, U.K., a husband, father of two, newspaper and magazine New Media expert, and an ardent private pilot, died Wednesday when the two-person aerobatic biplane he was aboard collided with a crop-spraying tractor as the biplane was approaching the runway at an airfield near his hometown.
Syracuse University’s Newhouse Schools has an opening for a Multimedia Newspaper Professor.
Why I’m late posting the third part of my essay ‘Transforming American Newspapers’; my plans to teach a graduate school course about Using New Media to Circumvent Censorship; and a brief thought about gPhones.
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Speaking Engagement
Dare to DRM?, Publishing Business & Conference Expo, New York City, March 8, 2010.
Business of Emerging Media: Research and Practices, East-Asia Research Institute of Media Management and Transformation Center, School of Journalism and Communications, Tsinghua University, Beijing, April 21-23, 2010.
The MOB (Media Online Business) Conference, New York City, May 6-7, 2010.
Media Development Loan Fund Media Forum 2010, Bratislava, Slovakia, May 13-14, 2010.
Recent Engagements
Essentials of Managing Newspaper Convergence, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, August 3-7. Digital Entrepreneur Bootcamp, Knight Digital Media Center, Los Angeles, May 18-22, 2009
Mail & Guardian Strategic Retreat, Johannesburg, South Africa, March 12-15, 2009
The Art of Storytelling Workshop, Johnson & Johnson Beauty Care Story Laboratory, San Francisco, March 4-6, 2009
Media Development Loan Fund Designshop, Podgorica, Montenegro, November 19-24, 2008
University Courses
New Media Business, Spring 2010 Semester, S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
Coming Conferences of Note
Publishing Business Conference & Expo, New York City, March 8-10, 2010.
Monetizing Online Media, New York City, May 6-7, 2010.
4th Annual Individuated News conference, Denver, Colorado, June 21-23, 2010.
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