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 tend to do some form of public speaking several times a month. I have done a poor job of keeping track of every speaking occasion, even the more notable ones. I have also been a “judge” in various journalism related contests.

These first three videos are indicative of other speaking events.

Journalism Week at West Virginia University

SXSW

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• Resource for Poynter’s Playground: 200 Moments that Transformed Journalism
• 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
• 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

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)