Guests will include Enrico Campitelli, Jr., founder and writer at the700level.com, Philadelphia Associated Press sports writer Dan Gelston, and John Miller, publisher and president of Philly Sports Daily.

We will be meeting in Tuttleman 105. The Tuttleman Learning Center is at the corner of 13th Street and Montgomery Avenue on Temple’s main campus. (Map) All events start promptly at noon.

Campitelli

Enrico Campitelli Jr., a native of the Philadelphia area, has been writing about Philly sports on the Internet since 2004 when he founded one of Philly’s most popular sports blogs, The700Level.com. The site grew over time from a one person blog to a website with half a dozen contributors. The site was acquired by Comcast SportsNet in March of 2010 and is currently part of the CSNPhilly.com team. In addition to acquiring The700Level.com, Comcast hired Enrico to run the site full time. Enrico was one of the original bloggers at AOL’s FanHouse and has also written for Deadspin.com. A Finance and Information Systems major at Boston College (’03), Enrico also spent 4+ years in the business consulting industry working for Accenture. He later graduated from George Washington University’s MBA program in May 2009 with a concentration in sports management. Philly Style Magazine ranked him No. 1 in Philadelphia of people whose “online posts keep us in the know.”

Gelston

Dan Gelston has been a sports writer with the Associated Press in Philadelphia for more than six years. He covers the Phillies, Flyers, 76ers, Jon Bon Jovi and the Philadelphia Soul, and travels to cover NASCAR races. Gelston grew up in upstate New York, studied at the University of Kansas, and previously worked for the AP in Indianapolis. He tweets from behind the scenes at @apgelston.

Miller

John Miller is the Publisher and President of Philly Sports Daily, which launched in August 2010. He has worked in local broadcasting for more than two decades, currently serving as the award-winning Pre- and Post-game radio host for Philadelphia Eagles football on WYSP-FM. He was a partner in a Philadelphia Public Relations firm for 11 years before leaving in Fall 2010. He holds a BS in Public Relations with a concentration in Psychology from Syracuse University (1986). He currently lives in Horsham with his family.

This event also celebrates the opening day of Philly Tech Week, the first annual week-long celebration of technology and innovation in Philadelphia. More info: http://www.phillytechweek.com/

PhIJI events are free and open to the public.

Doug Mitchell

Doug Mitchell is a nationally recognized trainer and coach for young people and early career professionals in multimedia while guiding them through life and work.

Mitchell is coming to visit PhIJI at Temple University next Monday, April 11, 2011 at noon, to present “The New U: Landing A Media Job In Today’s Climate.”

Please note the new time and location: This semester we will be meeting in Tuttleman 105. The Tuttleman Learning Center is at the corner of 13th Street and Montgomery Avenue on Temple’s main campus. (Map) All events start promptly at noon.

Currently, Mitchell is the Project Manager for African-American Public Radio Stations at the National Federation of Community Broadcasters, and the Co- Project Director of “The New U” Entrepreneur Fellowship Program at UNITY: Journalists of Color. Mitchell is also the Career Coach at Knowledgewebb.net, a member of the Advisory Board at West Virginia University School of Journalism, Chairman at the National Association of Black Journalists Media Institute, an Advisory Board Member at The Featherstone Foundation, and Board Member at RTDNA: Radio Television Digital News Association.

Previously, Mitchell was the Senior Project Manager, Recruiter and Multimedia Trainer at PRI’s “Living On Earth,” and adjunct instructor at the Graduate School of Journalism at City University of New York, Project Founder and Project Manager for “next generation radio” at NPR, a Fulbright Scholar-State Department-Knight Int’l Press Fellow at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, and Newsmagazine and Field Producer at National Public Radio.

PhIJI events are free and open to the public.

Rob Bole

Robert Bole, vice president of Digital Media Strategy at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, is coming to visit PhIJI at Temple University Monday, March 28 at noon.

Please note the new time and location: This semester we will be meeting in Tuttleman 105. The Tuttleman Learning Center is at the corner of 13th Street and Montgomery Avenue on Temple’s main campus. (Map) All events start promptly at noon.

Bole will present: Journalism through Digital Storytelling

Today reporters and editorial writers have a wide-range of tools to choose from to engage their audience in the journalistic experience.  The familiar words on paper or screen are being joined by data visualization, crowd-sourced information, animations, geo-locational information and the dynamism of increasingly sophisticated mash-ups of content.

In the past twelve to eighteen months there has been a broadening of creative methods by a new class of master story-tellers that utilize the capabilities of digital media to expand notions of journalism.  This talk will highlight some of the best journalistic digital story-telling on the web and discuss how these new forms are starting to change the way the public sees and participates in news gathering, distribution and applying it to their daily lives.

Highlights will include NYTimes and NPR’s data journalism, WYNC’s crowd-sourced mapping and perhaps what is coming in the future via HTML 5 video.

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Robert Bole is vice president of Digital Media Strategy at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. He leads the development and execution of CPB’s strategy for investing in digital media.

Previously, Bole served as the senior vice president of Media for One Economy Corporation, a global nonprofit organization that uses technology and online content to help low-income people improve their lives and enter the economic mainstream. Working at One Economy for nearly nine years, he helped launch the Beehive, an online platform that connected over 15 million low-income families to information to healthcare, financial services, education and workforce development. Serving in a variety of positions, Bole helped launch local programs in over 45 communities, as well as four additional media properties, most notably the Public Internet Channel.

Bole has over seventeen years of experience in managing nonprofit programs, including work for The Enterprise Foundation, the city of Portland, and the city of Philadelphia. He has an undergraduate degree from George Washington University and a Master’s from University of Pennsylvania.

At the Corporation for Public Broadcasting: Robert Bole

Bole’s blog: http://publicpurposemedia.blogspot.com/

On Twitter: http://twitter.com/rbole

Former washingtonpost.com and TBD exec Jim Brady stopped in to present at PhIJI recently. Brady brought advice for journalism students, discussed audience consumption, reflected on the TBD proeject, and much more.

Jim Brady at PhIJI

Former washingtonpost.com and TBD exec Jim Brady stopped in to present at PhIJI today. I will post more soon, but here are a few key takeaways.

Brady says journalism students entering the job market will need a strong understanding of audience consumption patterns to set themselves apart. Possessing multimedia skill such as video editing will just be expected along with the other fundamentals of journalism.

More advice: Everybody should read Clay Shirky’s “Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable.”

Looking back: TBD had a five-point strategy focusing on: engagement, curation, geocoding, social media and mobile distribution. TBD content focused on five niches they thought were not particularly well-covered in their market: transportation, sports, arts and entertainment, crime, and weather.

Come back soon for multimedia clippings from the event.

Jim Brady

Former TBD general manager and washingtonpost.com executive editor Jim Brady is coming to visit PhIJI at Temple University Monday, February 28 at noon.

Please note the new time and location: This semester we will be meeting in Tuttleman 105. The Tuttleman Learning Center is at the corner of 13th Street and Montgomery Avenue on Temple’s main campus. (Map) All events start promptly at noon.

Jim Brady most recently served as general manager of TBD, a new local news operation dedicated to comprehensive coverage of the Washington, D.C. region that combines the values of traditional journalism and the power of citizen journalism. Brady joined TBD after more than four years as executive editor of washingtonpost.com, where he led the site to numerous awards and accolades.

As general manager of TBD, Brady was responsible for the business operations and editorial oversight of both TBD.com and TBD TV, a 24-hour local cable news station. On both platforms, TBD’s original journalism is supplemented with strong partnerships with other local news organizations and more than 175 area bloggers. TBD has quickly gained a reputation for innovative ways of covering local news, and gained high marks for its commitment to social media and engaging with its community in meaningful ways. TBD has also displayed a strong commitment to mobile, with highly regarded applications for the iPhone and Droid.

During Brady’s tenure as executive editor of washingtonpost.com, the site won a national Emmy award for its Hurricane Katrina coverage, a Peabody Award for its “Being a Black Man” series, an Editor & Publisher award for Best Overall Newspaper-Affiliated Web Site, two Digital Edge awards for Best Overall News Site, a Knight-Batten Award for Innovations in Journalism, two Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Awards, four Edward R. Murrow Awards for Best Non-Broadcast Affiliated Web Site, and more than 100 White House News Photographers video awards. Brady also served as sports editor and assistant managing editor for news at washingtonpost.com from 1995 to 1999.

In between his stints at washingtonpost.com, Brady spent more than four years at America Online, serving as Group Programming Director, News & Sports; Executive Director, Editorial Operations; and Vice President, Production & Operations. During his time at AOL, Brady was in charge of the service’s coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the 2000 presidential election.

Brady earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Print Journalism from The American University in 1989.

Born in Queens, N.Y. and raised in Huntington, N.Y., Brady now lives with his wife, Joan, in Great Falls, Va.

C.W. Anderson at PhIJI

Anderson

C.W. Anderson

C.W. Anderson is an Assistant Professor of Media Culture at the City University of New York. His forthcoming book, Networking the News, chronicles the history of online journalism in Philadelphia from 1997 until the present, and discusses what the lessons of Philadelphia can teach us about journalism in the digital age.

At CUNY, Anderson teaches classes in both journalism and media studies. From 2009-2010, he was a Knight Media Policy Fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC. From 2009-2011, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. He has published in numerous academic journals and book collections, and writes occasionally at the Nieman Journalism Lab and the Atlantic Online. His website is at http://cwanderson.org.

Please note the new time and location: This semester we will be meeting in Tuttleman 105. The Tuttleman Learning Center is at the corner of 13th Street and Montgomery Avenue on Temple’s main campus. (Map) All events start promptly at noon.

Temple University

In an effort to attract even more students, we are moving PhIJI events to Monday afternoons this semester.

We are planning two events later this month and will be announcing guests very soon.

Stay tuned!

Things are brewing in Philadelphia, a city where the dominant local TV newscast featured smiley cartoon cloudsuntil a few years ago and the two main daily newspapers are owned by one company.

Here are just a few things that have happened over the past few months:

• The Inquirer, Daily News and philly.com are under new ownership, and they have big plans.

• Larry Platt, the former Philadelphia Magazine editor, will soon become the editor of the Daily News.

• The William Penn Foundation has given a grant of $2.4 million to Temple University to incubate anetworked journalism project (full disclosure: I am part of the Temple team working on the project).

• J-Lab doled out $5,000 awards to 14 Philly collaborative journalism projects. The awards were funded by the William Penn Foundation.

• The Journal Register company has big plans to launch a hyperlocal news portal in the region.

• WHYY launched Newsworks, a hyperlocal/ arts/ public affairs journalism site that has partner news organizations around the region.

• Patch.com has set up hyperlocal news outlets around the city and region.

• Fox29 changed their news format to be more like cable-news, featuring lots of commentary.

• Most of the local broadcast outlets have begun airing live newscasts at 4:30 am (Fox29 starts at 4:25 am).

• Rumors persist that ESPN will set up shop in Philadelphia (as it did in Chicago and elsewhere).

• The word on the street is that the New York Times wants to set up a regional hub in Philadelphia, as it did in San Francisco and elsewhere.

• Philly-based Comcast, which recently received FCC approval to acquire NBC Universal, is reportedly creating an interactive, web-friendly cable box that includes news options.

• Temple University launched a television station that will broadcast news, as well as other regular programming.

• Several other journalistic outlets have popped up: Flying Kite, Philly Sports Daily and Tek Lado, among others.

• Personally, I am working with a group of people to create a quarterly, print local-music magazinethat will debut in March, with 10,000 copies distributed around the city.

What happens next is as uncertain as ever. But Philadelphia is in play.