The fifth MobileMe&You Conference, sponsored by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Journalism and Mass Communications and the University of Illinois College of Media, is Friday and Saturday, Oct. 25-26, at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Preconference Google tools training will be Thursday, Oct. 24.
MobileMe&You explores mobile media best practices with talks from top digital media experts. Speakers this year include
- Stephanie Clary, director of social publishing for CNN, discussing how CNN experiments and adapts to new mobile and social publishing platforms;
- Tamar Charney, managing director for personalization and curation at NPR, talking about how NPR is reinventing radio with apps and voice assistants;
- Ray Soto, director of emerging technology for the USA TODAY network, discussing virtual reality, augmented reality and immersive storytelling;
- Almudena Toral, head of the enterprise team at Univision News Digital, talking about using illustration, animation and video to enhance stories;
- Yusuf Omar, founder of Hashtag Our Stories, talking about building a newsroom around the camera in your phone;
- Robert Scheer, photographer at the Indianapolis Star, talking about the challenges of using mobile media to cover breaking news and sports events, and
- Kurt Gessler, director of editorial operations for the Chicago Tribune, talking about how to use mobile media data to find strategic and tactical insight.
Presentations will be live-streamed and archived for later use by faculty in classes. The streaming link will be available soon. Presentations are 45 minutes long, including Q&A. View the schedule here.
The MobileMe&You conference explores how to think differently about storytelling on mobile and social media platforms to better reach the audiences of today and tomorrow.
Launched in 2015, this conference highlights new and innovative techniques and best practices to look ahead at newsgathering in an ever-changing landscape.
MobileMe&You brings together leading experts and researchers to talk with professors, students and journalists about how to inform and engage new audiences in the mobile era.
MobileMe&You is funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
The 2020 conference will be on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus. Gary Kebbel, professor of journalism at the UNL College of Journalism and Mass Communications, is the conference organizer.