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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RJI has high hopes for iPad
January 27, 2010 The much-anticipated release of the new Apple iPad, basically a supersized iPod Touch, could have implications at the Missouri School of Journalism. KBIA's Lauren Hasler talked to Roger Fidler of the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute about his reaction to Apple's latest release.
Roger Fidler is the program director for digital publishing with RJI. He has been studying portable electronic reading devices since 1981. Fidler says the new iPad is of interest to RJI because it could provide a new platform for the delivery of digital editions of newspapers.
"The apps are pretty exciting, and the things that we can do with those apps give us, I think, greater opportunity to do some new things. We're going to try to figure that out over the next few months."
Read more about what Roger Fidler had to say about the iPad and e-readers