Program

1:00-1:40 p.m.: Designing the Digital-First Newsroom

How can TV newsrooms better organize and budget for multimedia and multiplatform production?
What are the skillsets, staffing and tech requirements that let news organizations adapt more easily
to rapid changes in audience behavior?

1:40-2:00 p.m.: Q&A: Newsy’s Blake Sabatinelli on Monetizing News with OTT
How will escalating competition among OTT programmers and apps affect the news industry? What are the best monetization strategies for news apps? How can news services and/or apps get discovered by OTT audiences?

2:00-2:30 p.m.: Keynote Interview: Andrew Morse, EVP Editorial, CNN U.S. and GM, CNN Digital Worldwide

2:30-2:45 p.m.: Networking Break

2:45-3:30 p.m.: TV Graphics – State of the Art
Increasingly, reporters are creating graphics for their stories and controlling how augmented reality enhances them. This panel will explore the real-world experience of more deeply integrating news graphics into the newsroom workflow.

3:30-3:45 p.m.: Case Study 1

3:45-4:15 p.m.: Distributed Content: Beyond the Usual Strategies
Distributed content offers a critically important outlet — and potential competitor — for reaching
news consumers not tuned into traditional media. What are the indispensable platforms? What does a robust distributed content strategy cost?

4:15-4:30 p.m.: Case Study 2

4:30-5:15 p.m.: Chasing Millennials with Streaming Media, Mobile & OTT
They don’t want linear, but they love video and they watch the news on many different platforms. How can traditional news organizations produce and deliver news that builds audience among tomorrow’s more important consumers?

5:15-7:00 p.m.: Cocktails with SVG Summit