Eric Schmidt will be the opening speaker at ASNE's NewsNow 2010 Ideas Summit, to be held in Washington, D.C. April 11-14. Schmidt will speak prior to the conference's opening reception on Sunday, April 11, which is being co-sponsored by Google and the Knight Foundation. Others scheduled to speak during the summit include Alan Rusbridger of The Guardian, David Carr of The New York Times, The Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington, Yahoo! News honcho Mark Walker, and the editor and author Dave Eggers.

Conference sessions and speakers bring old and new media together. Morning sessions will look at the future and present of news and the editor's role, while afternoons will be devoted to practical workshops, followed by small-group interaction with select speakers in an hourlong Innovation Salon on Monday and Tuesday.

The ASNE Awards Board met last week in St.Petersburg, Fla., and selected the winning entries in nine different categories. "The ASNE competition is always inspirational, showcasing the best in public service journalism, storytelling and community photojournalism," said Charlotte H. Hall, senior vice president/editor of the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel, and chair of this year's ASNE Awards Board.