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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And from on high ... a new tablet from Apple
Jan. 27, 2010By Eric Adler and Scott Canon, Kansas City Star
It doesn’t happen with breakfast cereals or blue jeans.
Not with colas and no longer with cars.
But nearly every time Apple Inc. founder Steve Jobs steps on stage to unveil a new device — as he did Wednesday with the iPad — millions listen or blog, turning their eyes, ears and expectations his way.
“Steven Jobs is practically a saint as far as the way some people view him,” said Roger Fidler, program director for digital publishing at the University of Missouri’s Reynolds Journalism Institute. “I can’t really think of anything that compares to the almost fanatical following Apple has.”
Indeed, what other company generates such buzz? Or stirs fans to drool over a device sight unseen? Or could even half-seriously expect its gadget to get dubbed “the Jesus tablet” before it is revealed?
Article courtesy of the Kansas City Star.