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• Journalism’s Got 99 Problems: Design Is #1

  by David Wright and Miranda Mulligan

  Will ________ save journalism? It’s a typical, and tired, question with everything from paywalls, iPads, programmers or hyperlocal, microlocal, over-aggregation filling in the blank. But the subject of design is often absent from these conversations. Why? Design is one of the most crucial ingredients; it’s the glue between intent and engagement, between content and comprehension. Yet news design on the web feels stagnant. From the perspective of designers in the newsroom trenches, where the headlines meet the HTML, we want to look at design’s successes and failures and examine what’s next for this still nascent field. We look forward to the input of many voices before, during and after this session. Let us know what you think.

  • Design
  • Journalism

  At 11:00am to 12:00pm, Tuesday 13th March

  In Capitol View North, Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol

• Digital Age Editing: A Magazine Editor’s View

  by Brandon Holley and Pam McCarthy

  For magazine editors today, the delivery of digital content is an undeniable reality, and a terrific opportunity. Digital platforms–the web, tablets, and mobile–allow editors to take their magazines to places they’ve never been before. In this conversation, Lucky Editor-in-Chief, Brandon Holley, and The New Yorker’s Deputy Editor, Pamela Maffei McCarthy, will explore the new magazine landscape. How do editors make the leap from print magazines to multi-platform brands? Holley and McCarthy will explore the evolution of the editorial process –from article choice and presentation to workflow issues to the role of social media—as well as the changes in their audiences’ expectations. Holley, formerly Editor-in-Chief of Jane magazine who also launched Yahoo! Shine, has extensive experience working primarily for younger brands as well as digital environments. McCarthy first worked on reconceiving iconic titles for new eras as Managing Editor of Vanity Fair and Executive Editor of Esquire.

  • Editing
  • Magazine Publishing

  At 12:30pm to 1:30pm, Tuesday 13th March

  In Capitol View North, Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol

• Making eBooks Smarter: Responsive Page Design

  by Peter Meyers

  Some ebooks are print edition replicas, some are overstuffed mediafests. Neither fulfill one of screen publishing’s biggest promises: adapting content to meet readers’ needs. The digital page can do much more than its “dumb” static counterpart. Possibilities range from memory-coaxing character summaries embedded “beneath” the digital canvas to continuously streamed in updates. Join author Pete Meyers (“Breaking the Page”, O’Reilly) for a lively group chat. He’ll kick off with a fast-paced tour of digital document design principles and best practices. From there he’ll help attendees compare modern readers’ most pressing needs to the kinds of just-in-time services digital books can deliver. Together we’ll swipe away the notion that digital book design is just about picking fonts or adding video. It’s about shaping content on an infinite canvas so that ebook readers become ebook lovers.

  • Content
  • eBooks
  • Libraries
  • Publishing
  • Responsive Design
  • sxswLAM

  At 3:30pm to 4:30pm, Tuesday 13th March

  In Capitol View North, Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol

• Death of Digital Downloads: MP3s the New 8-track?

  by Tom Perry and Rick Schwartz

  Over the past decade, we’ve seen consumers opt for digital downloads over the almost-extinct CD. In 2010, CD sales suffered a 20 percent decline for the fourth year in a row, with digital downloads garnering a 13 percent increase. With the proliferation of new cloud storage services and music streaming solutions (e.g., iCloud, Amazon, Pandora, etc.), we are now seeing another shift in the way music is consumed. With these new services that offer anytime, anywhere access to music content, will the once-revered digital download be the 8-track of the future?

  This “Core Conversation,” led by PacketVideo’s content manager, Tom Perry, will offer a platform for attendees to discuss the future of music consumption. Participants will be prompted to offer opinions and insight into how this shift away from digital downloads will impact the music industry as a whole, and how new music services will foster the consumer need for anytime, anywhere access to music.

  • Crowd Consumption
  • Digital
  • Music
  • streaming

  At 5:00pm to 6:00pm, Tuesday 13th March

  In Capitol View North, Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol