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This blog launched by the Society of Professional Journalists Digital Media Committee (DMC) aims to help news professionals wanting to learn more — in a hurry — about technology.
Net Worked will offer informative and instructional training on how to use digital media to make your reporting more interactive, and keep abreast of the ever-changing media tech industry. Our mission is to better prepare you for journalism in the 21st century newsroom, fill you in on the new stuff coming on the horizon, and to foster conversations about the evolution of media.
Contact us via email: spj_dmc@yahoo.com
Contact us via Twitter: @spj_dmc
Digital Media Committee Members
Gil Asakawa
Gil is the current Chair of the SPJ’s Digital Media Committee. He’s the Manager of Student Media at the University of Colorado’s Journalism and Mass Communications program, and he has a long and circuitous career path that led to the position. He was the music editor of Denver’s alt-weekly newspaper Westword through the 1980s, then the entertainment editor at the Colorado Springs Gazette. In 1996 he left dead trees and has worked online ever since, starting as content editor for AOL’s Digital City Denver (an early “hyperlocal” network), then a series of startups through the dotcom crash, during which he did a lot of freelance writing. He was hired by The Denver Post to manage its denverpost.com website in 2003, then left for Advance Internet in 2006 as managing editor of product development. Later that year he returned to Denver and was managing editor for Examiner.com, then manager of audience development for MediaNews Group (the Denver Post’s parent company).
He’s also active in the Asian American blogosphere, and a founding organizer of Banana (now renamed V3 starting Aug. 2012), the national conference of Asian American bloggers and digital media. He writes about pop culture and politics from an Asian American perspective on his Nikkei View blog, and covers Colorado’s Asian community on Huffington Post Denver.
He’s a champion of emerging technology and the future of digital media, and has trained newsrooms on SEO and social media, and embraces all the changes that are causing the industry to evolve — because hell, you can’t stop the changes.
Gil was a founding member of the Denver chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association and current Editorial Board member (and former Editorial Board Chair) for the Pacific Citizen
Contact me Email: gilasakawa@gmail.com
Twitter: @gilasakawa
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/gil.asakawa
Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/gilasakawa/
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/gilasakawa
Personal blog: Nikkeiview.com
Tumblr: http://gilasakawa.tumblr.com
Posterous: http://gilasakawa.posterous.com
Danielle Cervantes
Danielle Cervantes is a California-based independent journalist currently on contract with Investigative Newsource, a non-profit based at San Diego State University. She teaches computer assisted reporting and investigative journalism at National University and her alma mater, Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego.
Until February 2011, Danielle was the CAR specialist and open records expert on the watchdog team at The San Diego Union-Tribune. Her award-winning work on public land assets, government contracts, disaster recovery and mortgage fraud have inspired federal and local criminal and civil investigations. Danielle has been a Livingston Award Finalist and nominated for Pulitzer prizes in investigative journalism and explanatory writing.
Danielle has been a member of the San Diego Chapter of SPJ, the San Diego Press Club, Investigative Reporters & Editors/National Institute for Computer Assisted Reporting and the California Chicano News Media Association.
Contact me
Emails: sddatadiva@gmail.com, DanielleCervantes@pointloma.edu, DanielleCervantes@inewsource.org
Twitter: @sddatadiva
Mobile: 619.895.4285
Andrew Chavez
Andrew Chavez is the director of digital media for the TCU Schieffer School of Journalism. He teaches a class on new media Web tools, is the adviser for TCU 360 and the109, a hyperlocal news site that covers the 76109 ZIP code, and oversees the digital operations of the school’s student media.
Before joining the Schieffer School, he worked at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram as a part-time night police reporter. Chavez is also the associate director of the Texas Center for Community Journalism, a TCU-based center that focuses on helping small rural and suburban newspapers in Texas.
He is a former editor of the TCU Daily Skiff and a graduate of the Schieffer School.
Contact me
Facebook: facebook.com/andrew.chavez
Twitter: @adchavez
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/andrewchavez
Quora: quora.com/Andrew-Chavez
Jodie Mozdzer
Jodie Mozdzer is a multimedia reporter for the Valley Independent Sentinel, an online-only newspaper that covers five towns in Connecticut. Jodie has also worked at the Hartford Courant and the Waterbury Republican American, covering education and community news.
Jodie has volunteered for the Connecticut Pro Chapter of SPJ since 2008, where she currently serves as the group’s treasurer and contest coordinator.
Jodie has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Southern Connecticut State University, and she is pursuing her master’s in interactive communications from Quinnipiac University.
Contact me
Email: jmozdzer@ctspj.org
Twitter: @mozactly
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jodie-mozdzer/35/522/40a
Blog: http://mozactly.wordpress.com
Tumblr: http://www.tumblr.com/blog/mozactly
Jennifer Peebles
Jennifer Peebles, data editor at the Washington (D.C.) Examiner newspaper, is the 2009 winner of the John Aubuchon Freedom of Information Award from Capitolbeat and the 2009 winner of the Open Doors Award given by the Fort Worth Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
She was a July 2011 fellow at the Knight Digital Media Center at the University of California-Berkeley. She is the president of the Houston Pro Chapter of SPJ and is a past president of the Middle Tennessee Pro Chapter of SPJ.
She is a board member of the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas and a former board member of the Tennessee Coalition for Open Government.
Prior to joining the Examiner staff in April 2012, she was one of the founders of Texas Watchdog, a Houston-based online news site.
Before joining Texas Watchdog, Jennifer served as the government editor of The Tennessean, leading a team that uncovered a rash of sexual harassment in Tennessee state government, prompting state leaders to change the way harassment cases are reported. She also oversaw an investigation into the Tennessee Highway Patrol that unearthed deep-seated cronyism and a scheme in which troopers were promoted after making campaign contributions to connected politicians.
Jennifer is a graduate of Vanderbilt University, majoring in history. She is also a member of SPJ, Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc., the Online News Association, the Radio Television Digital News Association and the Media Bloggers Association.
Contact me
Twitter: @jpeebles
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jennifer.peebles
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/jenniferpeebles
Delicious: jlpeebles
Digg: LostMyPen
NewsVine: http://jpeebles.newsvine.com/
Mike Reilley
Mike teaches several classes at DePaul University, including Online Journalism I and II, News Editing, Multiplatform News Editing News Now, Reporting for Converged Newsrooms, Online Sports Reporting and Intro to Journalism.
In January 2010, he and his Online II class launched The Red Line Project, a community news website that focuses on neighborhoods along Chicago’s Red Line El stops. Students in his other classes continue to update the site. The site has won several SPJ Region 5 awards, as well as an Editor & Publisher EPPY award.
Mike also serves as DePaul’s Society of Professional Journalists faculty adviser. The student group, which has 61 members, was named SPJ’s National and Region 5 Campus Chapter of the Year in its first year.
Mike is a former reporter and copy editor at the Los Angeles Times and was one of the founding editors of ChicagoTribune.com. He’s a former news editor at WashingtonPost.com and ran the 2000 Summer Olympics copy desk for AOL. Mike also founded the journalism research site, The Journalist’s Toolbox, that he sold to the Society of Professional Journalists in 2007 and continues to update for SPJ.
Mike has a master’s degree in journalism/newspaper-media management from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. He graduated at the top of his class at Medill and received the Harrington Award, the school’s highest academic honor. He taught full-time at Medill from 1997 to 2000 and laid the groundwork for the school’s online journalism curriculum. He has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he was editor of his college newspaper, The Daily Nebraskan.
In March 2012, Mike’s Twitter account, @journtoolbox, was named one of “Nine Twitter Accounts Every Journalism Student Should Follow” by USA Today.
Contact me
Twitter: @journtoolbox
Delicious: http://www.delicious.com/mreilley
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mikereilley
Website: http://www.redlineproject.org
The Journalist’s Toolbox: http://www.journaliststoolbox.org
David Sheets
David Sheets is a sports content editor for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and its electronic alter ego, STLtoday.com. He is currently president of the St. Louis Pro Chapter, member of SPJ’s national freelance, digital media and membership committees, a regular contributor to SPJ’s NetWorked and Independent Journalist blogs, and editor of EPJ’s forthcoming freelancing guide. He is also a candidate for the Region 7 directorship in September.
Contact me
Email: dsheets@post-dispatch.com
Twitter: @DKSheets
Facebook: Facebook.com/david.sheets