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A Conference about Digital Journalism in the Americas and Iberian Peninsula



Journalists and Researchers Discuss Digital Journalism about the Americas, Spain and Portugal

Welcome to the page of the Ibero-American Colloquium on Digital Journalism organized by the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas! Click here to read news about the first colloquium.

This section of the Knight Center website contains the discussions of the first colloquium, held in Austin, Texas, April 5-6, 2008, held immediately after the 9th International Symposium on Online Journalism that was supported by the Knight Chair in Journalism and by the UNESCO Chair in Communication at the University of Texas at Austin.

Here are several videos and PowerPoint presentations by journalism scholars and editors of some of the most important publications in Latin America, Spain and Portugal. Unlike the symposium, which is conducted in English, the colloquium was predominantly in Spanish and dealt with specific issues and concerns of journalists and scholars who deal with digital journalism in Spanish and Portuguese.

We hope this first colloquium is the beginning of a new dialogue between journalists of the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula interested in the evolution of digital journalism. We are planning for the second colloquium here in Austin for April 18-19, 2009, which will once again follow the long-established symposium of online journalism (which should occur between April 17th and 18th).

There is no need to wait until the next meeting in Austin to continue the dialogue initiated here. Our idea is to create initiatives to stimulate dialogue in Spanish and Portuguese, among journalists, scholars of Latin America, Spain and Portugal interested in digital journalism. Look forward to it! Meanwhile you can already enjoy the content of this page.


Colloquium Powerpoint Presentations


Digital Journalism: Proposal for a Language by João Canavilhas



Trends in Digital Journalism in the United States by Andres Cavelier



Current State of Digital Journalism and
News Websites in Latin America 2007 by Guillermo Franco



User Participation on Globo Online by Cilene Guedes



The Multimedia Newsroom at Infobae by Patricia Santa Marina



Trends in Digital Journalism in Spain and Europe by Mario Tascón



Colloquium Participants

• Alejandra Rodríguez – El Diario de Hoy (El Salvador)
• Alberto Cairo – University of North Carolina (USA)
• Amy Schmitz Weiss – Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas
• Andrés Cavelier – El Nuevo Herald (USA)
• António Granado – Público (Portugal)
• Caroline Venetzou – University of Texas at Austin
• Cecilia Alvear
• Christian Marra – Master em Jornalismo (Brazil)
• Cilene Guedes – O Globo Online (Brazil)
• Cristina Aby–Azar – Wall Street Journal Americas (USA)
• Dean Graber– Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas
• Denis Burgeiman – Abril (Brazil)
• Elizabeth Saad – Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil)
• Ezequiel Abiú – Clave Digital (Dominican Republic) • Fernando Esquivel – Autonomous University of Nuevo León (UNAL)
• Fernando Rodrigues – Folha de São Paulo (Brazil)
• Fernando Zamith – Universidade do Porto (Portugal)
• Guillermo Franco – El Tiempo (Colombia)
• Hernando Álvarez – BBC Mundo (United Kingdom)
• Ignacio Catalán – El Universal (Mexico)
• João Canavilhas – Universidade da Beira Interior (Portugal)
• José Zamora - John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (USA)
• Lidia Maropo – Universidade Nova Lisboa (Portugal)
• Liza Gross – Miami Herald (USA)
• Margarita Funes – La Prensa Gráfica (El Salvador)
• Mario Tascón – PRISA / El País (Spain)
• Mireya Garcia – University of Texas at Austin
• Patricia Santa Marina – Infobae (Argentina)
• Paul Alonso – Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas
• Paulo Motta – O Globo (Brazil)
• Ramón Salaverría – Universidad de Navarra (Spain)
• Rosental Calmon Alves – Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas
• Sandra Crucianelli – Canal 7 de Bahía Blanca (Argentina)
• Telma Luzzani – El Clarín (Argentina)

Colloquium Videos
from YouTube


Video of Andres Cavelier
of The Miami Herald (US)


Video of Guillermo Franco of El Tiempo (Colombia)


Video of Mario Tascón of PRISA/El Pais (Spain)


Video of Hernando Alvarez of BBC World (UK)

Video of Ignacio Catalan of El Universal (Mexico)

Video of Cilene Guedes of O Globo Online (Brazil)

Video of Patricia Santa Maria of Infobae (Argentina)

Video of João Canavilhas of Universidade da Beira Interior (Portugal)



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