2017 People-Powered Publishing Conference Schedule #PPPC17

Overview

Wednesday, November 8 Thursday, November 9

  • Registration open; light breakfast available (8:30 AM)
    Conaway Center (1104 S. Wabash Ave., 1st floor)
  • Welcome and Opening Remarks (9:00 AM)
    Conaway Center (1104 S. Wabash Ave., 1st floor)
  • Sessions (9:45 - 10:45 AM)
    1104 S. Wabash Ave. and 600 S. Michigan Ave.
  • Clinic (9:45 - 11:45 AM)
    1104 S. Wabash Ave., Room 506
  • Sessions (11:00 AM - 12:00 PM)
    1104 S. Wabash Ave. and 600 S. Michigan Ave.
  • Lunch (12:00 - 1:30 PM)
    Conaway Center (1104 S. Wabash Ave., 1st floor)
  • Sessions (1:30 - 2:30 PM)
    1104 S. Wabash Ave. and 600 S. Michigan Ave.
  • Clinic (12:30 - 2:30 PM)
    1104 S. Wabash Ave., Room 506
  • Sessions (2:45 - 3:45 PM)
    1104 S. Wabash Ave. and 600 S. Michigan Ave.
  • Plenary Session (4:00 - 5:30 PM)
    Film Row Auditorium (1104 S. Wabash Ave., 8th floor)

  • Registration open; light breakfast available (8:30 AM)
    Film Row Conference Center (1104 S. Wabash Ave., 8th floor)
  • Clinic (9:00 - 11:00 AM)
    1104 S. Wabash Ave., Room 835
  • Sessions (9:00 - 10:00 AM)
    1104 S. Wabash Ave., Rooms 836 and 837
  • Sessions (10:15 - 11:15 AM)
    1104 S. Wabash Ave., Rooms 836 and 837
  • Lunch (11:30 AM - 1:00 PM)
    Film Row Conference Center (1104 S. Wabash Ave., 8th floor)
  • Clinic (12:00 - 2:00 PM)
    1104 S. Wabash Ave., Room 835
  • Sessions (1:00 - 2:00 PM)
    1104 S. Wabash Ave., Rooms 836 and 837
  • Closing (2:30 - 3:00 PM)
    Film Row Auditorium (1104 S. Wabash Ave., 8th floor)

Session Schedule (click session title for details)

Wednesday, November 8
9:45 AM -– 10:45 AM
Educational Impasse: Teaching and Learning Storytelling when You Are the Story

Edie Rubinowitz-Foutz
Associate Professor of Journalism, Northeastern Illinois University

Maria Xoy
Student, Northeastern Illinois University

Jason Merel
Alum, Northeastern Illinois University

Let’'s Start a Revolution: How To Get Your Newsroom to Invest in its Audience

Joy Mayer
Fellow, Reynolds Journalism Institute; Adjunct Faculty, Poynter

Andrew Losowsky
Project Lead, The Coral Project

11:00 AM -– 12:00 PM
Small Newsroom, Big Ag: How to Navigate the Nexus of Corporate Accountability Through Engagement

Pam Dempsey
Executive Director, The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting

Anna Casey
Illinois Humanities Engagement Fellow, The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting

A How-To for Using Deliberative Dialogue in Audience Engagement

Andrew Rockway
Program Director, The Jefferson Center

Kyle Bozentko
Executive Director, The Jefferson Center

1:30 PM –- 2:30 PM
Measure Your Civic Impact: New Tools for Open Assessment and Actionable Evaluation

Mindy Faber
Program Director, Convergence Design Lab, Columbia College Chicago

Natalia Smirnov
Doctoral Candidate, Northwestern University, Department of Learning Sciences

Shared Goal, Different Meanings: How Different News Organizations Pursue More Engaged Audiences

Jacob Nelson
PhD Candidate, Media, Technology and Society, Northwestern University

2:45 PM –- 3:45 PM
We'’re Funders. Ask Us Anything.

Lauren Pabst
Program Officer, Journalism and Media, MacArthur Foundation

Molly de Aguiar
Managing Director, News Integrity Initiative, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism

Beyond Red and Blue: collaborative engagement across echo chambers in rural and small-town media

Andrea Wenzel, Senior Research Fellow, Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia University

Sam Ford, Consultant and Fellow, Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia University and Western Kentucky University

You Need to Be There: Rebuilding Relevance Through Engagement

Dennis Anderson, Executive Editor, Peoria Journal Star

4:00 PM –- 5:30 PM
Plenary Session
Counter Narratives: Elevating youth voice through creative, community-based storytelling

Cole Goins, Director of Community Engagement, Reveal from CIR

Kevin Coval, Artistic Director, Young Chicago Authors

Susy Schultz, President, Public Narrative

Willa Taylor, Director of Education and Community Engagement, The Goodman Theater

Youth participants, Young Chicago Authors and The Goodman Theater

Thursday, November 9
9:00 AM -– 10:00 AM
How to collaborate with community: Work with the public to reveal truth, build trust and do great journalism

Fiona Morgan
Journalism Program Director, Free Press

Mike Rispoli
Director, News Voices: New Jersey

Michelle Gladden
Reporter, Asbury Park Sun

Vanessa Maria Graber PhillyCAM/WPPM

Creating Contact Zones: Civic Storytelling as Community-Engaged Journalism

Jesikah Maria Ross
Senior Community Engagement Strategist, Capitol Public Radio

10:15 AM -– 11:15 AM
"A Conspiracy of Good People": Building Public Media's Capacity Through Partnerships

Kelley Libby
Co-creator, Storefront Studio; Creator/producer, UnMonumental

Free Egunfemi
Historical Strategist, Untold RVA; Co-creator, Storefront Studio

Jackie Washington
Community Engagement Liaison, Storefront for Community Design; Site Coordinator, Six Points Innovation Center

Community-driven design: Using tools of organizing and media development to assess a community's information needs

Madeleine Bair
Founder, El Tímpano

Sol Aramendi
Developer, Journalero

Carolyn Powers
Media Development Specialist, Internews

Jorge Caraballo
Journalist and Founder, Postcard Journalism Project: "East Boston Nuestra Casa"

1:00 PM -– 2:00 PM
Me and My Scientist

Elaine Chen
Project Manager, WNYC

Amanda Aronczyk
Reporter, WNYC

Gather lightning talks

Andrew DeVigal
Chair in Journalism and Civic Engagement and Professor of Practice, University of Oregon

Ben DeJarnette
Project and Product Manager, Gather

2:30 PM –- 3:00 PM
Closing: What's Next?

Clinic Schedule

Wednesday, November 8 Thursday, November 9
9:30 AM – 11:30 AM

Researching and planning your engagement-driven project: who, how, why?
Facilitators:
Terry Parris, Jr.
Deputy Editor, Engagement, ProPublica

Adriana Gallardo
Engagement Reporter, ProPublica

Ariana Tobin
Engagement Reporter, ProPublica

Logan Jaffe
Engagement Reporter, ProPublica Illinois

9:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Leveraging tools for engagement: what’s out there, and how can you make it work for you?
Facilitator: Andrew Haeg
CEO, GroundSource

12:30 PM – 2:30 PM

Engaging with your audience before you hit “publish”
Facilitators:
Jennifer Brandel
CEO and Co-Founder, Hearken

Ellen Mayer
Engagement Consultant, Hearken

12:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Building a sustainable community: how can face-to-face engagement drive more responsive reporting?
Facilitators:
Darryl Holliday
Editorial Director, City Bureau

Andrea Hart
Community Director, City Bureau