Video has
been the Wild Wild West of the Web. Are things starting to settle down when it
comes to standards, knowing what works and what doesn't, and how online sites
can focus their video strategies?
Sponsored
by the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation
Produced by
Kathleen Graham, executive director, RTNDF, Washington
Moderator
Chip Mahaney, director of digital content, E.W. Scripps Company, Cincinnati, Ohio
Chip directs content initiatives for Scripps' 10 television stations, and his mission is to grow their online audience. Chip is a former local TV news director (WTVR Richmond) and a longtime TV news manager, much of that time with the FOX O&O station group. He has years of experience covering local sports and extreme weather, and managing newsroom technology. Chip is a former member of the RTNDA Board of Directors and has participated in RTNDF leadership programs, as a student and a leader, for more than a decade. Chip is an active blogger and is now living with an extreme addiction to social media.
Panelists
Olivia Ma, News & Politics, YouTube,
San Francisco
Olivia Ma is the News Manager and a member of the News & Politics team at YouTube. She manages the news programming on the site, working with professional news organizations, amateur journalists, and citizen reporters documenting the events happening in the world around them. Prior to joining YouTube, Olivia worked for Plum, a social media-sharing website where she was the product manager and community specialist. Originally from Washington D.C., Olivia attended Harvard and earned her B.A. degree in American History & Literature while overseeing the production of Current, a national student newsmagazine published in partnership with Newsweek.
Kevin Roach, director
of U.S. Broadcast News, Associated Press,
Washington,
D.C.
Roach
is responsible for all US-based news operations, including AP Radio, AP
Television News, the Online Video Network and other services. Previously, Roach
was Executive Producer, Online Video. He joined the AP in
2007. He began his career at ABC News in
New York, where he worked his way up from
production assistant to producer. His responsibilities included line producing,
field producing and managing assignments. Roach worked as the regional director
of IBS (Internet Broadcast Systems) where he oversaw 17 station Web sites
including those of WNBC in
New York, WCVB in
Boston and WDIV in
Detroit. He helped started up New England
Cable News. He was news director at WDTN-TV in
Dayton, Assistant News Director at WCPO-TV in
Cincinnati and executive producer at WFSB-TV in
Hartford.
Andrew
Fitzgerald - Online
Producer, News – Current TV
Andrew
Fitzgerald oversees Current’s online news efforts including daily editorial
curation and news video production. He joined Current in August of 2005, quickly
making his mark producing Current’s award-winning Hurricane Katrina coverage. In
2007 Andrew launched Collective Journalism, Current’s citizen journalism
program. Collective Journalism invites contributors around the world to submit
documentary elements and personal stories to collaborative reports and group
investigations on the issues that shape the world we live in. Prior to Current,
Andrew worked for Channel One News, where he co-produced Channel One’s first
user-generated project around the 2004 elections.
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