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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How Fear Cripples Courageous Newsrooms
How fear cripples courageous newsrooms
Sept. 3, 2009
By Tyler Dukes, -30- Adventures at the end of journalism
"How Fear Cripples Couragous Newsrooms," -30- Adventures at the end of journalism, September 3, 2009
To Roger Fidler, 1995 represented a sea change in journalism.
For the last three years, Fidler had been directing the Information Design Lab at Knight-Ridder Inc., the nation’s second-largest newspaper chain.
Up until that point, things were looking good. Under the leadership of Jim Batten, a reporter/editor turned chairman, the company was flourishing. It owned about 30 newspapers across the U.S. and was posting millions in profits.
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