Public Speaking or In the News

Through my experience in participatory journalism I am often asked to speak at conferences. This list is not exhaustive. Between journalism schools and conferences I have done more public speaking than I can really keep track of. I have done a poor job of noting every speaking occasion, even the more notable ones. I have also been a “judge” in various journalism related contests.

These first few videos are indicative of other speaking events.

Journalism Week at West Virginia University

Reynolds Journalism Institute Talking about Circa

For Reynolds Journalism Institute

and

A roundtable conversation

• Mobile Me & You – Lincoln Nebraska
• How to Succeed as a Media Entrepreneur – Stanford

• ONA15 – A Conversation on Failure
• AAJA 2015 – Engaging and Measuring a Fickle Online Audience
• AEJCM 2015 panel: Silicon Valley meets Journalism
• Resource for Poynter’s Playground: 200 Moments that Transformed Journalism
• Keynote Speaker at RIT’s School of Communication Knight series and Career week
• Guest co-host of Al Jazeera’s The Stream: June 6th and 7th.
• Investigative Reporters and Editors: I’ve spoken at 2008, 2010 and 2011 conferences
• Journalism Interactive Festival in Gainesville Florida 2013 (Video)
• Street Fight Summit West Coast – 2012
• Free Press: National Conference of Media Reform 2011
• AP Midwest Conference – Speaker on new business models
• International Journalism Symposium – University of Texas – On Participatory Journalism
• 17th World Editors in Hamburg
• Tools of Change Conference (O’Rielly) 2010

• International Journalism Festival – Alternative Business Models
• Tools of Change – Rewiring Journalism – Open Tools for Media
• Knight Digital Media Center – How to start a startup. University of Southern California – “Journalism in a Changing World,” presented to the entire USC journalism staff.
• SPJ Event – 2009 – “Communities and crowdfunding.” Networked Journalism Summit 2009

• Nieman Review – Creating a new platform to support reporting
• ForaTV

• Ithaca University – “Symposium of Independent Media“
• Alaskan Press Club – Keynote 2009
• WeMedia 08, Miami: A Pro-Am World – While some fear the change, others see the enormous potential in
  bringing the work of professional and amateur journalists together.
• Symposium on Computational Journalism – Social computing and Journalism Panel – How can journalists harness their networks of sources and of readers to enhance the value of information?
• Wissenswerte 2007, Bremen Germany: Science journalism and Web 2.0
• Playing Well with Others: Community Journalism & Social Networking
  Speaker at the 2007 Spring College Media advisers Conference.
• Guest Moderator at The Drill Down
  Wired & NewAssignment.net columnist (and top Digg & Propeller submitter himself) David Cohn turns the tables on Andy Mu & Reg (the three top Digg contributors) as he asks them the social news questions you wanted answered in this 75-minute Q&A.
• Panelist at Vibe Wire‘s 2006 e-Festival of ideas.
• 2006 National conference on student media explaining NewAssignment.Net
• 2006 – Spoke at SXSW and again in 2011 and in 2015 “For Media, It’s Platform or Perish.”

Recognition from Peers

• Professional accolades from Jeff Howe – Wired Magazine Editor and Crowdsourcing.com
  “Any crowdsourcing project must install one go-to guy (or girl) who will
  thanklessly toil day and night to keep the project on the rails. At a
  magazine this person is called the Production Manager. On Assignment
  Zero he was called David Cohn.”

• Martin Stabe – Looking for journalism student heroes?
  “Dave Cohn a student at Columbia University and editor of NewAssignment.net, is certainly a good example to point out.”

• Jay Rosen
  “David Cohn (miraculously, half geek, half journalist).”

• Mathew Ingram “Jay and his team “led by the indefatigable David ‘DigiDave’ Cohn” want to…”

In The News

• New York Times: Spot Us would give a new sense of editorial power to the public, said David Cohn, a 26-year-old Web journalist who received a $340,000,
  two-year grant from the Knight Foundation to test his idea.”

• Rising stars: 10 under 30 – Folio Magazine

• NowPublic’s Most Public Index: David Cohn ranked 26th in the Silicon Valley.

• Marin Independent Journal: Speaking on NewsTrust.Net “What drew me to it originally was the fact that there was a rubric to
  the voting process,” said David Cohn, an editor at NewAssignment.net.

• Media and the Law Seminar, Calgary – “Bans, Blogs and Boundaries”
  Third Panel: Who Let the Blogs Out?” Citizen Journalism and the Rise of Internet Reporting.

• MediaShift’s Mark Glaser – Gives Me Credit for Inventing my own Syndrome.
  CBS News follows it up.

• My Media Diet – Journalism Hope.

• New York Times loves my reporting: “Its important to create a system that has a balance of accountability
  and free form,â? Ryan Mickle, the siteâ??s founder, told David Cohn of Newassignment.net.

• New York Times “Top Digg Users Revolt Against Algorithm Change on Site” â?? In an open letter to Digg’s executives posted this morning, four of the
  site’s so-called top users Andy Sorcini, David Cohn , Muhammad Saleem
  and Reg Saddler said that they planned to stop submitting to Digg.

• Online Journalism Review – Cooperation, not conflict, the goal at the Networked Journalism Summit

(This list is not meant to be exhaustive – but just the highlights)