Articles by Dale Peskin

Dale Peskin is the Co-Director of The Media Center. Peskin was the Exeutive Director of NDN and, which merged with The Media Center in September 2003. Prior to joining NDN, he was a vice president of Belo, the Dallas-based media company, where he launched the company's initiatives in new media and media convergence. At Belo, Peskin served as editor of Dallasnews.com and as an assistant managing editor of The Dallas Morning News. He was a founding officer of Belo Interactive, Belo's network of news Web sites. He has served as Deputy Managing Editor of The Detroit News and Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, and managing editor of the Tribune Chronicle. Peskin's awards include NAA's Digital Edge Award for Pioneering Online Journalism, the Sigma Delta Chi Award, and four Gold medals from the Society for news Design. He was part of the team at The Detroit News that won the Pulitzer Prize.

Wednesday, February 25, 2004

Dale Peskin, co-director of The Media Center and a former newspaper designer, spoke about the future of design in an ever-evolving media landscape. "The good news," says Peskin, "is designers get to set the rules, and make the changes. If there is any point in time, in the history of newspapers where the voice of designers can be heard in changing things, it's now. ... You're going to have an ear, because publishers are scared to death."

Thursday, September 11, 2003

From the beginning, NDN was going someplace else. Before Bill Gates discovered the road ahead, Jean Gaddy Wilson set new directions for news.

Monday, August 18, 2003

Still having trouble understanding how a problem with transmission line outside of Cleveland shut down power for 50 million people between New York City and Lansing? The emerging science of networks helps explain it.

Monday, August 18, 2003

One of the most inventive explorations into the use and impact of media in society is being led by three mute creatures who spread goo over their bald heads, paint them blue, and play PVC pipes.

Friday, July 18, 2003

Leaders and analysts from news, business, technology, finance and academia addressed critical questions about the values and economics shaping news, information and media businesses into the future.

Thursday, May 15, 2003

Insight: Accessible media is changing the equation that shapes news and informs society. Everyone is a journalist in the Age of Access. But for most news organizations, collaboration with their audience is an irrational concept.

Thursday, November 07, 2002

An ‘Inner Circle” roundtable of sociologists, business leaders, news executives, technologists and policymakers examined the critical forces shaping news, transitions in the business of news, and the changing role of news, information and media in a global, interconnected society.

Saturday, June 01, 2002

Monday, May 13, 2002

Insight: The Internet is widely regarded as primarily a content delivery system. Yet historically, connectivity has mattered much more than content. Even on the Internet, content is not as important as is often claimed, since it is e-mail that is still the true "killer app."In the final analysis, connectivity – not content – is king

Tuesday, April 16, 2002

In series of symposiums, news industry leaders and leading researchers in journalism and mass communication explored how to harmonize news and business values, how to measure effective journalism, and how to gain new knowledge that could enrich the entire news enterprise.

Friday, March 01, 2002

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Tuesday, January 01, 2002

Friday, November 30, 2001

Insight: A new “space for news to happen” is emerging. The MediaScape is creating an expansive, new universe for news. It is reshaping news and its economics. It is changing the way news happens, to whom it happens, and how it happens. It is emerging beyond the cloisters of convention.