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How Social Media are Changing Journalism

Monday, November 7, 2011 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (PT)

Vancouver, British Columbia

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Doors open at 6:30pm. Reserved spaces will be released at 6:50pm. Please be sure to arrive early for seating.
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Panelists:

Liz Heron is a Social Media Editor at The New York Times, where she taps into social networks for newsgathering, creative distribution and community engagement. Previously, she was on ABCNews.com's audience development team, increasing traffic, interactivity and engagement through SEO, social media and blogs. Before that, she spent five years at the Washington Post, developing web strategies for the Foreign, National Security and Local desks that included social media, curation and interactivity; running multimedia projects, live-blogging major international news events, and developing new blogs and partnerships. www.facebook.com/LHeron and Twitter @lheron

Alfred Hermida is an associate professor at the UBC Graduate School of Journalism, a digital media scholar, journalism educator and online news pioneer. He is a co-author of Participatory Journalism: Guarding Open Gates at Online Newspapers (2011), and is currently working on a book about social media and journalism. An award-winning journalist, Hermida was a founding news editor of the BBC News website in 1997. He writes on developments in digital journalism at his award-winning blog Reportr.net.

Karen Pinchin has worked as a reporter, researcher and editor, in print and online, for Maclean’s, The Canadian Press and Newsweek International. The founding editor of OpenFile Vancouver, Karen is on the vanguard of old media methods used in a Web 2.0 world. With as much interest in ethics and fact-checking as in Twitter and Facebook, she still occasionally freelances for publications including The Walrus. www.karenpinchin.com

Steve Pratt is the Director of CBC Radio 3 and CBC Radio Digital Programming.  The CBC Radio 3 website has been nominated for a Webby Award two years in a row for Best Online Radio Station. In the past, he’s also worked for MuchMusic, AOL Canada, CTV, and YTV. He’s a regular speaker on the subjects of the future of music, the future of media, training traditional media in using new media, and the power and proper execution of social networking. www.stevepratt.com

This event is presented by UBC Continuing Studies and the UBC Graduate School of Journalism.