Dan Pacheco
Founder and CEO, BookBrewer.com

Dan Pacheco is the founder of Printcasting.com, a 2008 Knight News Challenge project that democratizes the print publishing process, and senior manager of digital products at The Bakersfield Californian. He specializes in social media, the idea that anyone can and should participate in media rather than simply consume it. Dan’s work at the Californian has lead to numerous awards, including the National Association of Newspaper’s “20 Under 40” award in 2005; an “Edgie” award for Bakotopia.com in 2006; a Knight-Batten Award for Innovation in Journalism for the Bakomatic Social Media Platform; and a grant for $837,000 to develop Printcasting, which was one of 16 winners of the 2008 Knight News Challenge.

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10:45am Tuesday, 02/23/2010

Rewiring Journalism: Open Source Models, Software, and Workflows

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Location: Odets (4th Floor)

Matthew Bernius (Open Publishing Lab at the Rochester Institute of Technology), Michael Riordan (Open Publishing Lab at the Rochester Institute of Technology), David Cohn (Spot.Us), Dan Pacheco (BookBrewer.com)

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In order to survive in this time of radical change, research and development is becoming an integral part of the newspaper industry. This panel brings together the heads of three cutting-edge open source, news R&D projects (Spot.Us, Printcasting, and the Innovation News) to discuss their work and the alternative news publishing models they believe are the future of the news. Read more.

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