Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Media Summit 2008 Wednesday, March 12 10:45 AM - Noon Session A: The Changing Face of News: The Power, The Influence and the Challenge of the Technologies Every morning, the national conversation is started and disseminated by the editorial voices at the major news organizations across the globe. The tradition of great print and broadcast journalism remains at the core of our democracy – in fact – it could be argued that with the rise of “new media” distribution, more individuals have access to news than ever before. Nevertheless, with the growing power of broadband, mobile, IPTV, social networks, blogs and other non-traditional news sourcing, the role, the path of the future and the general understanding of how to structure a national news gathering and distribution organization is the ongoing question for our industry. The power and voice of news continues, but the role of our great institutions is in flux. In this session, we are pleased to bring together a group of leading voices in the news media industry. Julia Wallace, editor, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Kinsey Wilson, Executive Editor, USA Today Howell Raines, Media Columnist, Conde Nast Portfolio, former Executive Editor, New York Times David Westin, President, ABC News Jon Klein, President, CNN/US Jon Fine, Columnist, BusinessWeek, Moderator Julia Wallace is the editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, directing a team of more than 400 talented and creative journalists. In 2007, she developed and launched a major reorganization of the newsroom to better position it for a future of print and online journalism. She became editor in July of 2002 after serving as managing editor for 18 months. In 1977, Julia was an intern in the features section of the Atlanta Journal. She began her career in Norfolk, VA at the Ledger-Star and then the Dallas Times-Herald. In 1982, she joined USA Today as a reporter and worked her way up to managing editor/special projects. During that time, she worked in news, sports and special projects. She joined the Chicago Sun-Times in 1992 as managing editor. She left in 1996 and joined the Salem (OR) Statesman Journal as executive editor. In 1998, she became managing editor at the Arizona Republic and served two years before moving to Atlanta. She is a member of the board of directors of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Kinsey Wilson is executive editor of USA TODAY and usatoday.com, with shared responsibility for strategic planning and day to-to-day editorial management of one of the nation’s most widely read news publications. A veteran reporter and editor, he has played a leadership role in digital media for more than a decade. He was named to his current position in December 2005 upon the merger of USA TODAY’s print and online newsrooms. Prior to the merger he was vice president and editor-in-chief of usatoday.com, overseeing the editorial operations and strategic development of a news and information website that reaches more than 1.5 million readers a day. He began his journalism career at City News Bureau of Chicago and from 1988-1995 was a reporter at Newsday. For the last 12 years he has been involved in online journalism, first at Congressional Quarterly, where he helped spearhead that company’s digital publishing strategy, and since April 2000 at USATODAY. He is past president of the Online News Association (2007), chaired the national advisory board of the Poynter Institute from 2006-2008. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago. David Westin, President, ABC News: As president of ABC News, David Westin oversees all aspects of the news division, including: “World News with Charles Gibson,” “Nightline,” “Good Morning America,” “20/20” “Primetime,” “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” “World News Now,” and “America This Morning.” In addition, Mr. Westin is responsible for ABC News Radio, the nation’s largest radio news service; ABCNEWS.com; ABC News’ satellite service, NewsOne; and ABC News Now, the groundbreaking 24/7 multi-media news channel. Under Mr. Westin’s leadership, ABC News continues to distinguish itself from the competition. The world-beating Investigative Team, a unit that Westin built, regularly breaks major stories at home and abroad. Recent reports include: the Mark Foley/congressional page scandal, new details on Iran’s nuclear program, and an investigation into secret CIA prisons in Eastern Europe. Mr. Westin has also guided a number of division-wide reporting efforts, including the Emmy award-winning series “Iraq: Where Things Stand,” now in its sixth installment. The series, born from discussions about how best to assess the situation on the ground, has provided crucial benchmarks for ABC’s continuing war coverage. Led by Mr. Westin, ABC News also differentiates itself in primetime with serious documentary hours. Recent broadcasts include Diane Sawyer’s exclusive report “North Korea: Inside the Shadows,” Bob Woodruff’s compelling look at traumatic brain injuries and his recovery after being injured in Iraq, George Stephanopoulos’ examination of the political divide in the US, and Terry Moran’s Peabody-winning look at AIDS in black America. Westin has also overseen the successful re-launch of “Nightline” with a multi-topic format and three anchors; the program is consistently up double digits compared to 2005. Additionally, “World News with Charles Gibson” is the #1 evening newscast in 2007, as well as the only broadcast to grow its Total Viewing audience in the 2006-2007 season. In the digital space, ABCNEWS.com ranks among the top news sites and showcases the news division’s first-class reporting 24/7. During Mr. Westin’s tenure, the news division has won numerous honors. In 2007, ABC News received two George Foster Peabody Awards, more than any other cable or network news division, as well as seven Edward R. Murrow Awards and an Emmy Award. In 2006, ABC News received an Alfred I. DuPont Award for its division-wide coverage of the death of Pope John Paul II. Also that year, ABC News’ Investigative Unit won a George Polk Award for its work on exposing secret CIA prisons abroad. “World News” was awarded three Emmys, more than any other evening newscast, and the news division was honored with five Murrow Awards. In 2005, ABC News garnered 29 Emmy nominations, more than any other news organization. That year, ABC News received four Murrow Awards and “World News Tonight with Peter Jennings” was recognized as Best Newscast for the second consecutive year. From September 1994 until being named to his current position, Mr. Westin served as president, ABC Television Network. Previously he was president, production, ABC Television Network Group, since 1993. He joined Capital Cities/ABC (now ABC, Inc.) as vice president and general counsel in February 1991, responsible for all legal affairs of the company, including labor and government relations. Before joining ABC, Mr. Westin was a partner in Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. He joined that firm in 1979 and was resident in the firm’s London office from 1982-83. He had previously served as a law clerk to The Honorable Justice Lewis F. Powell of the Supreme Court of the United States, during the 1978 term. He also served as a law clerk to The Honorable J. Edward Lumbard of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1977-78. Mr. Westin taught as an adjunct law professor at Harvard and Georgetown Universities, teaching international civil litigation. He is co-author of International Civil Litigation in U.S. Courts and International Law. Mr. Westin serves on the board of The Associated Press as its sole outside director from a broadcast news division; the board of the Newseum; the Advisory Board of the Peter Jennings Project for Journalists and the Constitution at the National Constitution Center, and the board of the Yonkers Partners in Education. He received a BA degree with honors and distinction from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and a JD degree, summa cum laude, from the Law School of the University of Michigan. Mr. Westin is married to Sherrie Rollins Westin. He has two daughters, Victoria and Elizabeth, two sons, Matthew and David, and a stepdaughter, Lily. Jon Fine writes BusinessWeek’s weekly column, “Media Centric.” Prior to BusinessWeek, Fine was the media reporter for Advertising Age. His freelance articles have appeared in GQ, Spin, ESPN: The Magazine, and Columbia Journalism Review. Between 1995 and 1998 he wrote the “Pushing 30” column for Newsday. Fine graduated from Oberlin College. Jon Klein is president of CNN/U.S., responsible for management oversight of all programming, editorial tone and strategic direction of the network. He reports to Jim Walton, president of CNN Worldwide. Named to this position in November 2004, Klein previously served as president and chief executive officer of The FeedRoom, a broadband video company he founded in 1999. Under his direction, The FeedRoom became one of the leading online broadcasters in the world, delivering more than 1 million video clips each day to customers including CBS, NBC, ESPN, Reuters, Tribune television stations and newspapers, USA Today, Business Week, General Motors, Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems, General Mills and the U.S. Department of Defense. Before founding The FeedRoom, Klein was an executive vice president at CBS News, where he oversaw prime-time programming including 60 Minutes, 48 Hours and Public Eye With Bryant Gumbel. Klein also oversaw off-network production, guest booking, investigative reporting and strategic planning. Klein began his television career in 1980 as a news producer at WLNE in Providence, R.I., and the following year moved to a similar position at WPIX-TV/Independent Network News in New York. In 1982, he joined CBS News as a writer and news editor on the overnight broadcast Nightwatch. He subsequently served as broadcast producer on CBS Morning News and then CBS Evening News Weekend Edition, where he won an Emmy Award for live coverage of the 1986 Reagan/Gorbachev summit in Reykjavik, Iceland. In 1988, Klein joined the fledgling prime-time magazine series 48 Hours as a field producer, eventually winning an Emmy Award for coverage of Hurricane Hugo and a Peabody Award for an hour he produced on the anti-abortion movement. Klein served as senior producer for CBS’s 1990 late-night series America Tonight with Charles Kuralt and Lesley Stahl, as senior producer for the network’s coverage of the 1991 Gulf War and later for the documentary Back to Baghdad, in which foreign correspondent Bob Simon returned to the Middle East following his imprisonment by the Iraqis during the war. In 1993, Klein launched a unique prime-time documentary series, Before Your Eyes, two-hour movies-of-the-week that explored social issues such as child abuse, AIDS and juvenile delinquency through the eyes of real people living through dramatic moments in their lives with the cameras rolling. The series, for which Klein served as executive producer and director, was acclaimed for pioneering new forms of storytelling and received numerous national awards. In 1997, Klein conceived and executive produced the CBS documentary Inside the Jury Room, in which network television cameras were permitted for the first time to observe deliberations in a criminal trial. The documentary won a Columbia-DuPont Silver Baton. Klein also wrote the story for the TNT Original film Buffalo Soldiers, a 1997 historical drama starring Danny Glover. Klein graduated magna cum laude from Brown University in 1980 with a degree in history