Miami | March 9-11, 2010

Principal Sponsor and Host

The School of Communication at the University of Miami hosts the annual We Media Miami conference. The School is dedicated to a global educational perspective and is committed to providing a socially responsible and ethically grounded learning environment guided by a diverse faculty of scholars, artists and professionals. The School is committed to quality undergraduate and graduate programs in communication that emphasize the relationship between theory and practice.

Global Partner

The Associated Press is a global news network, delivering news from every corner of the world to all media platforms and formats. Founded in 1846, AP today is the world’s largest source of independent news and information. On any given day, more than half the world’s population sees news from AP.

PitchIt Challenge Sponsors

Ethics & Excellence In Journalism Foundation

The Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation was established in 1982 for charitable, scientific and educational purposes, including the improvement of the quality of the practice of journalism among various media. This support includes funding for creative projects and research that promotes excellence in journalism and instills and encourages high ethical standards in journalism.

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation promotes excellence in journalism worldwide and invests in the vitality of 26 U.S. communities where the Knight brothers owned newspapers.

PitchIt Challenge Partner

Ashoka Changemakers

Changemakers is an initiative of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public that focuses on the rapidly growing world of social innovation. It provides solutions and resources needed to help everyone become a changemaker and presents compelling stories that explore the fundamental principles of successful social innovation around the world.

Conference Sponsors

BBC

The BBC The BBC is the largest broadcasting organisation in the world. Its mission is to enrich people’s lives with programmes that inform, educate and entertain. It is a public service broadcaster, established by a Royal Charter and funded by the licence fee that is paid by UK households. The BBC uses the income from the licence fee to provide services including 8 national TV channels plus regional programming, 10 national radio stations, 40 local radio stations and an extensive website. BBC World Service broadcasts to the world on radio, on TV and online, providing news and information in 32 languages. It is funded by a government grant, not from the licence fee. The BBC also has a commercial arm, BBC Worldwide. Its profits are returned to the BBC for investment in new programming and services.

Allvoices

Allvoices’ mission is to create a global community for sharing news, videos, images and opinions from multiple points of view that invoke an emotional connection between individual perspectives from around the world. A community of diverse, engaged and globally minded citizens serves as news reporters, opinion leaders and publishers to share with the world the realities on-the-ground. Allvoices.com brings together context, insight and diversity of opinions around a broad range of topics and issues on the global, national and local levels. Allvoices is one of the largest global communities offering unedited and relevant news and perspectives in one place. Using a set of proprietary algorithms, Allvoices utilizes professional and online news sources, blogs, images and videos to determine relevancy, foster credibility and maintain openness with each contribution made to the site.

Open Calais

Calais is a rapidly growing toolkit of capabilities that allow you to readily incorporate state-of-the-art semantic functionality within your blog, content management system, website or application.

Media Sponsors & Partners

Genuine Interactive

Genuine Interactive is a Boston-based interactive agency specializing in world class site design and development, search marketing, social media, customer acquisition / retention campaigns and bringing brands to life through digital channels.

TrylonSMR

Trylon SMR is a NY-based media relations firm exclusively serving clients in the media. technology, and telecommunications industries, fusing traditional public relations with new technology. The firm, established in 1990, focuses on two converging industries — media and technology — that demand new ways of thinking and innovative approaches to cut through the clutter. Trylon SMR’s services range from print and electronic mainstream media outreach to online publicity including blogs, social networks, Twitter and online video. Trylon SMR knows these sectors inside and out and works fast and smart to consistently deliver cost-effective, tangible results for clients nationwide. For more information, including a complimentary subscription to Strategic Media Relations Report, visit trylonSMR.com.

Marketwire

Marketwire is a North America-based global newswire, delivers press releases and financial information for public and private companies and non-profit organizations to the world’s media and financial communities. Media recipients include newspapers, magazines, radio,T.V stations, financial terminals, news agencies, newsletters, online portals and databases. Marketwire also partners with media outlets to help them increase revenue and web traffic. Serving more than 11,000 clients worldwide through 20 offices on four continents, the company’s international headquarters are in Toronto, with US headquarters in Los Angeles. Marketwire is now majority-owned by OMERS Private Equity, which manages the private equity activities of OMERS Administration Corporation.

Be The Media

Be The Media empowers individuals and communities to express themselves through the media. This is accomplished by providing books, services, consultations, training, and speaking to help anyone with a message to help them embrace the rapidly changing media renaissance we have today. Be The Media’s independent media handbook is used by some of the country’s most prestigious academic institutions, from the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University to Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

PoliticsOnline

PoliticsOnline, Inc. (POL) is the premier global company providing news, tools and strategies for using the Internet and new technology in the civic sector – media, government, NGO’s, and politics. The company was founded in 1996 and is now the oldest political Internet company.

Online News Association

The Online News Association is the world’s largest association of digital journalists, with more than 1,600 members worldwide. Its mission is to inspire innovation and excellence among journalists to better serve the public. ONA membership includes news writers, producers, designers, editors, bloggers, technologists, photographers and others who produce news for the Internet or other digital delivery systems, as well as academic members, students and others interested in the development of online journalism.

World Editors Forum

The World Editors Forum is the largest gathering of editors from all over the world, taking place annually for 17 years. From June 7 to 10 we meet in Beirut, Lebanon, to discuss The Year of the Tablet: Why Mobile Distribution Will Change News Reporting. The annual Editors Forum is an event brought to you by the World Editors Forum (WEF, the organisation for editors within WAN-IFRA. For the evolving conference programme, please visit us at www.wanlebanon2010.com.

Fixedia

Fixedia is a niche networking site for professionals and companies working across a range of media industries. Individuals are provided with a free social space to showcase a portfolio of work, build a global contact list and receive news relevant to their specialism. Media companies are able to register on Fixedia Unlimited for a dedicated page with enhanced features to raise their profile, recruit and conduct research within this media network. With thousands of new members from over 130 different countries worldwide signing up each week, Fixedia is establishing itself as a global media network

Knight Digital Media Center

The Knight Digital Media Center – helping good journalists and good journalism thrive in the Digital Now.”

Center for Social Media

At The Center for Social Media we investigate, showcase and set standards for socially engaged media-making. We organize conferences and convenings, publish research, create codes of best practices, and incubate media strategies. We are a part of American University’s School of Communication.

Sobel Media

Sobel Media is a digital media connections company. Do you have a new product or service, software, hardware or program that you need to introduce to the right people? Do you have a production or technology challenge and need a breakthrough to make the show work? Are you looking for strategic partners to help launch a new digital media product, service or program? If your answer to any of these questions is yes then you need to talk to Bill Sobel about the solutions and value Sobel Media can add to your project or venture.

IssueLab

IssueLab archives social policy research created by nonprofit organizations at no cost to research producers or consumers, and disseminates this research to a broader audience through online channels, social media and targeted outreach. Whether you’re an advocate, researcher, nonprofit practitioner, librarian or policy professional – you can search, find, share and download research for free.