CW2001 Program - Computers and Writing

12:45 — 2:00 Lunch
Sree Sreenivasan:
“Quality Content Is (Still) King —
Lessons from the Online Journalism Award”
“The Retreat” in Noyer Complex
Sreenath Sreenivasan (www.sree.net) is associate professor of
Professional Practice and director of the Part-Time Program for
Working Professionals at the Columbia University Graduate School of
Journalism. He specializes in training journalists to speak the different
media “languages” of print, new media, and broadcast.
Sree is a freelance technology writer, a professional critiquer of Web
sites, and networking guru. He has recently written for publications and
companies like Time Digital, Business Week, The New York Times, India
Today, Rediff.com, Rolling Stone, and PBS. Sree cofounded SAJA, the
South Asian Journalists Association. He also serves as faculty adviser to
Columbia’s Society of Professional Journalists Chapter (he won the
group’s “National Faculty Adviser of the Year” award for 1998), and is
active with the Online News Association, which he helped co-found in
1998. Most recently Sree coordinated the Online Journalism Awards.
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