Most of Newsgeist is made up of unconference-y sessions that are off the record. But there is one part of the event that is recorded and rendered public: a series of Ignite sessions featuring some of the smartest people in digital media. Those have been posted to YouTube, but seeing as none of them have even 200 views at this writing, they could use a little more publicity. So here’s a selection of videos of the Ignite talks held at the most recent Newsgeist in November — lots of smart thinking embedded in each.
Marie Gilot of CUNY on continuing education for journalists
Mizell Stewart of Journal Media Group on local journalism, advertising, value creation
Moiz Syed of Wikimedia on the power of small projects
John Keefe of WNYC on the appeal of simple sensor journalism
Robert Hernandez of USC on what Drake can teach journalism
Maryanne Reed of West Virginia University on building a startup culture in a journalism school
Sharon Chan of The Seattle Times on the curse of expertise
Bill Adair of Duke (and PolitiFact) on falling in love with journalism
Katie Zhu of Medium on personal media
Andrew Losowsky of The Coral Project on journalists as trolls
Justin Kosslyn of Google on structured journalism
David Bornstein of the Solutions Journalism Network on journalism’s theory of change
Tracie Powell of All Digitocracy on winning as journalists
Michelle Ferrier of Ohio University on fighting harassment
Jeff Jarvis of CUNY on the death of the mass media business model
Photo via Arizona State University.
