Prof, two students at Online News conference
October 7, 2009
Thom Lieb, professor of journalism and new media, and students Nicole Fallek and Melissa Hale were among the sold-out crowd at the 2009 Online News Association conference in San Francisco.Lieb was there to act as a mentor in the student newsroom and also to begin interviews for a joint project between ONA and the Newseum in Washington, D.C. The project will archive some of the great online journalism that has won ONA’s Online Journalism Awards in the last decade and will be featured in a kiosk at the Newseum as well as on the Web sites of both organizations. More details are here.Nicole and Melissa worked as multimedia student reporters in the student newsroom. Melissa worked with Austin Fast on a Word on the Street slide show. She also reported on the Outwit the Algorithms session.Nicole worked with Noah Buhayar on Five news startups in 60 minutes. In addition, Nicole and Armand Emamdjomeh took photos of the winners of the Online Journalism Awards for a slide show. In addition, Nicole created a graphic commemorating the ONA’s 10th anniversary.
