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Alumni, Students Discuss Digital Media

(from left to right) Chris Wilson, Mary Catherine Wellons, Marty Kady and Jim Prosser at the Digital Media Forum
(from left to right) Chris Wilson, Mary Catherine Wellons, Marty Kady and Jim Prosser at the Digital Media Forum

On April 20, the Cavalier Daily Alumni Association and The Cavalier Daily hosted a day-long series of workshops and panels with digital media experts intended to explore the critical business and editorial decisions that will define America’s news organizations in the coming decades. Alumni guests speakers included:

  • Marty Kady (Col ’93; news editor), editor at Politico Pro
  • Jim Prosser (Col ’05; opinion writer), senior communications manager at Twitter
  • Mary Catherine Wellons (Col ’04; news associate editor), social media director at CNBC
  • Chris Wilson (Col ’05; editor-in-chief), director of interactives at Yahoo! News

The slides from the presentation by Prosser and Wellons, “Social Media in the Digital Age,” are also available for review. They contain numerous resources for journalists.