How will the newsroom of tomorrow look? Join the discussion
The audience for local news is rapidly changing its habits, and newsrooms must be nimble in order to get the right information to the right people at the right time. Rather than structure themselves around old print newspaper sections or around the latest digital publishing technologies, successful newsrooms of the future will remove obstacles and invest resources in meeting the audience where it is.
Ryan Thornburg and Robyn Tomlin will debate just how to do that, and invite participants at this Chapel Hill conference to join in the discussion.
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Our presenters:
Robyn Tomlin is vice president of digital and communications at Pew Research Center. She is responsible for the center's overall research dissemination and communications strategy and operations.
Before joining Pew Research Center, she served as the founding editor of Digital First Media's Project Thunderdome, a national digital news hub in New York producing content, news applications and interactives for more than 75 daily newspapers. Tomlin also served as the top editor of three daily news operations: the StarNews in Wilmington, N.C., the Ocala (Fla.) Star-Banner and the TimesDaily in Florence, Ala. During part of that time, she was also the director of editorial innovation for The New York Times Regional Media Group, leading digital innovation and audience growth strategies for 16 daily news operations located in six states.
A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Tomlin started her career as a reporter at the North Hills News Record in suburban Pittsburgh and later at the Asheville (N.C.) Citizen-Times before moving into editing roles. She currently sits on the board of directors for the American Society of News Editors.
Ryan Thornburg is an associate professor at UNC with a special interest in online news and the future of journalism. He is the director of the Open N.C. project, which is funded by a Knight News Challenge grant and Google. The project aims to make public records more digitally accessible for citizens and journalists, and to develop sustainable revenue models for public affairs journalism. Thornburg, author of "Producing Online News," is a former editor at USNews.com, CQ.com and Washingtonpost.com.
A few places still remain at the conference; register today to guarantee your spot.
Follow Robyn Tomlin and Ryan Thornburg on Twitter: @robyntomlin and @rtburg
Keywords
SNPA, UNC, digital, Thornburg, Tomlin
