Roger Fidler has been a new media pioneer since the 1970s. In 2004, be became the Reynolds Journalism Institute’s first fellow. He’s now RJI’s program director for digital publishing.Fidler was a journalist and newspaper designer for 34 years. He served as director of new media for Knight-Ridder in the early 1990s. In 1991, he created the first e-reader prototype while he was a Freedom Forum Media Studies Fellow at Columbia University.
Fidler went on to teach at Kent State University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication from 1996-2004.
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Apple's New iPad to Boost Already Growing Digital Publishing Trends
Jan. 27, 2010
Columbia, MO - infoZine - With the increasing prevalence of the Internet during the past decade, the print media industry has seen a major slide in circulation and profits. Apple’s announcement Wednesday introducing its new mobile device, iPad, as well as the rise in popularity of e-readers such as Amazon’s ‘Kindle’, has given print industry experts a reason to be optimistic. Roger Fidler, the program director for digital publishing in the Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) at the University of Missouri, believes the new generation of tablets and e-readers holds a bright future for print media.
“Everyone now recognizes that the future of publishing is digital. We are positioning RJI to play a major role in the adoption of digital media for journalism and advertising.”