Born in the Philippines, Jose immigrated to the United States at age 12. Stunning the media and political circles, Vargas wrote the essay “My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” for the New York Times Magazine in the summer of 2011. He is the founder of Define American, a new campaign that seeks to elevate the conversation around immigration, and the author — and subject — of a June cover story in Time. For his ONA12 opener, Jose will talk about his part in the evolution of news media.
Join Dick Costolo, Chief Executive Officer of Twitter and Emily Bell, Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia Journalism School and Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, for a luncheon conversation exploring the social media giant’s financial and cultural impact on digital media and plans for the 2012 U.S. Presidential election in November.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory leads the $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory mission, which dropped the 1-ton Curiosity rover on the Red Planet's surface Aug. 5. It's an institution of 5,000 people studying theories and science often too complicated to pronounce, making it all the more impressive that its inventive social media team managed to explode the Internet, building 1.1 million Twitter followers for the mission. Join us for a conversation with team members to see how they crafted a personality for their brands — plus some cool memes and videos from landing night.
Settle in with your boxed lunch and hear the winners of the Knight News Challenge: Data -- announced on Thursday at the conference -- give Ignite-style rundowns of their projects, focused on making the vast amounts of information produced each day available, understandable and actionable. Moderated by the Knight Foundation's Michael Maness.
