Nora Paul
[School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Minnesota]
Nora Paul is director of the Institute for New Media Studies at the University of Minnesota. She previously taught at the Poynter Institute teaching news library management, computer-assisted research, and new media leadership from 1991 to 2000. She was editor for information services at the Miami Herald from 1979 to 1991. Paul (and Hanson) are co-authors of “Behind the Message: Information Strategies for Communicators.” She is a member of the board of the World Press Institute, and has traveled worldwide presenting seminars and lectures on research methods and on innovation in online news. Her work at the University of Minnesota focuses on evolving digital storytelling forms.
Project Summary Playing the News is a news simulation environment which lets citizens play through a complex, evolving news story through interaction with the newsmakers.
Goals “We hope to imagine a new way to compile and display the development of complex news events.”
Contact npaul@umn.edu
