Ownership and Access Issues | Newspaper Archive Summit

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Ownership and Access Issues Brian Steffens Director of Communications, RJI Brian Steffens is a veteran communicator with executive-level experience in newspapers, magazines, digital media, public relations and news association management. Over four decades, he’s led change and innovation in photojournalism, color, typography, design, packaging and editing, information graphics, new media/digital initiatives, new product development and new business models. Mizell Stewart III Editor, Evansville Courier & Press Mizell Stewart III is the editor of the Evansville Courier & Press and courierpress.com. His team is responsible for the region's leading daily newspaper and web site as well as magazines, weekly publications and programming for public television and radio. Stewart also co-chairs a team for the E.W. Scripps Co. charged with evaluating new content business models, including content syndication and archiving. He is the former managing editor of the Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal and the former editor of the Tallahassee (Fla.) Democrat. Christopher Gill Christopher Gill is the founder of Heritage Microfilm and NewspaperArchive.com. Online since 1999 NewspaperArchive.com has more than 5,000 newspaper titles indexed and now digitizes and indexes more than 4 million pages per month under contracts with hundreds of publishers and thousands of libraries. His company runs the online archives of 480 institutions and has content online from more than 10 countries. Prior to creating the world's foremost digital archiving company Mr. Gill obtained his MBA from the University of Chicago and directed advertising and product development for Gatorade Sports Beverages, Science Diet Pet Food, and a leading natural food manufacturer, Frontier Herbs. Today Mr. Gill's companies provide content archiving services to a broad array of international libraries, newspaper chains, and increasingly provide content to the largest websites in the world including, among others, Google, Ancestry.com, Archives.com, Classmates.com, and Topix.com. In 2011 Mr. Gill's companies expect to announce signed contracts to archive the newspaper history of entire nations. His company's mission is to digitize, index, and organize the World's History – including every nation and every language on earth. Mr. Gill's expertise is in cost effectively digitizing historical documents and monetizing that content. Many times institutions have no cost to digitize their entire microfilm archive and to have long-term online access to that content. To discuss the digital archiving of more than 1 million images you may reach Mr. Gill at christophergill@live.com. Randall F. Weissman News Administration Editor, Chicago Tribune Randall Weissman is a genuine journalism "lifer." He has spent nearly 50 years in the profession, with more than 40 of those in various assignments for the Chicago Tribune. He has been a reporter, copy editor, photo editor, news editor, national editor and associate managing editor before assuming his current position. Along the way, he also served as an adjunct professor at the Medill School of Journalism. In his four decades at the Tribune, he has seen vast changes not only in news gathering and production, but also in the form and function of "the morgue." As News Administration Editor, the Tribune's Archive and Research staffs report up to him. One of his tasks is to find ways to preserve and then optimize the value of the Tribune's archives, including from such assets as glass negatives, original newspaper pages from the 1860s forward and unique photos from Chicago's infamous gangster era.