{"id":40070,"date":"2015-09-03T18:53:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T18:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ona15.journalists.org\/?p=40070"},"modified":"2016-11-20T13:47:35","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T13:47:35","slug":"ona15-opening-keynote-a-deep-dive-into-google-with-richard-gingras-emily-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ona15.journalists.org\/2015\/09\/03\/ona15-opening-keynote-a-deep-dive-into-google-with-richard-gingras-emily-bell\/","title":{"rendered":"ONA15 Opening Keynote: A Deep Dive into Google with Richard Gingras & Emily Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"
We\u2019re delighted to announce the opening keynote<\/a> for the 2015 Online News Association Conference and Awards: a deep-dive chat with Richard Gingras, Google\u2019s Senior Director of News and Social Products, and Emily Bell, Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School.<\/p>\n Richard and Emily will join us Thursday, Sept. 24, in Los Angeles for a candid conversation on the symbiosis \u2014 and tensions \u2014 between the tech giant and media, covering the critical issues of traffic and search referral, and developing content and data tools for newsrooms, including simple tools to facilitate speedy content on the mobile web.<\/p>\n This fireside chat also will touch on the need to rethink media business models, restrictions on an open internet, privacy concerns overseas and the lack of diversity in Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n Of note is Google\u2019s growing role in shaping the new economy. Just in the past two weeks alone, it\u2019s garnered headlines for restructuring into a new holding company, Alphabet; stepping up its mobile game by providing Android on iPhones; introducing diabetes monitoring and treatment; challenging Amazon.com in the home improvement market, and exiting the Chinese market because of the country\u2019s censorship issues.<\/p>\n If you work in a newsroom, whether a start-up or a major brand, there will be valuable takeaways on how Google works \u2014 and possibly a breaking news item or two. And, of course, the logo.<\/p>\nEmily Bell<\/strong>, @emilybell<\/a>,\u00a0is founding director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia\u2019s Graduate School of Journalism and a leading thinker, commentator and strategist on digital journalism. Established in 2010, the Tow Center has rapidly built an international reputation for research into the intersection of technology and journalism. The majority of Emily\u2019s career was spent at Guardian News and Media in London working as an award-winning writer and editor both in print and online. As editor-in-chief across Guardian websites and director of digital content for Guardian News and Media, Emily led the web team in pioneering live blogging, multimedia formats, data and social media ahead, making the Guardian a recognized pioneer in the field. She is co-author of \u201cPost Industrial Journalism: Adapting to the Present\u201d (2012) with CW Anderson and Clay Shirky. Emily is a trustee on the board of the Scott Trust, the owners of The Guardian, a member of Columbia Journalism Review\u2019s board of overseers, an adviser to Tamedia Group in Switzerland, chair of the World Economic Forum\u2019s Global Advisory Council on social media, and a member of Poynter\u2019s National Advisory Board. She lives in New York City with her husband and children.<\/p>\n