iPads and the clones that are hitting the market are a game changer for magazines - and the entire publishing industry. In the midst of this digital upheaval, iPads: The Creative Process In Process brought together editors, designers, tech and visual thinkers for a day-long conference that explores how to adapt and generate original content for this ground-breaking device.
Speakers included: National Geographic executive editor/e-publishing, David Griffin; panelists Gary Hoenig, ESPNPublishing general manager/editorial director, ESPN.com editor in chief, Rob King, and ESPN senior writer Wright Thompson; design director Wyatt Mitchell of Wired magazine, Mike Haney, deputy director, research & development, who oversees iPad for Popular Science and other Bonnier titles; Better Homes & Gardens executive editor Kitty Morgan, creative director Michael Belknap and Joe McCambley founding partner of Wonderfactory, Meredith's consulting firm for Better Homes; Matt Bean, associate vice president of mobile, social, and emerging media for Rodale's Men's Health and Women's Health magazines; plus Regina McCombs, online and multimedia expert, the Poynter Institute and Roger Fidler, digital publishing expert at the Reynolds Journalism Institute
SESSION TOPICS:
• The National Geo Empire Goes Digital
• ESPN: Touch Changes Everything
• Wired: Full Speed Ahead
• In the Trenches with Popular Science
and Mag+
• Better Homes & Gardens: Testing
the iPad Waters
A full listing of the events, bios of the speakers, an archive of on-site blogging that day, and video of each session are available at the Reynolds Journalism Institute website.
AN UPDATE: Since the planning of this seminar, Speaker David Griffin has been named Visuals Editor of The Washington Post.
