Outgoing chairman Ed Esposito, vice president of information media for Rubber City Radio Group in Akron, OH, becomes chairman of RTNDF, the educational arm of the association.

Members also endorsed a bylaws change to extend voting rights to educator members working with campus news media or Web sites.

Members of the Radio-Television News Directors Association also elected Mark Kraham, news director of WHAG-TV in Hagerstown, MD, to serve as chairman-elect for 2009-2010. He will produce the 2010 RTNDA convention in Las Vegas.

Janice Gin, assistant news director, KTVU-TV, Oakland, CA, and Dan Shelley, director, digital media, WCBSTV.com and WCBS-TV, New York, were elected directors-at-large and will serve two-year terms.

Until 2005  only newsroom managers could vote in RTNDA elections or on bylaws changes. Voting rights were extended to all news staff in that year. The Board of Directors voted in December to include educators among voting members, a bylaws change that required member approval.

Regional directors were elected earlier this year. They will serve two-year terms and include:

Region 2 is represented by Robert Long, vice president and news director, KNBC-TV, Los Angeles.

Region 7 will be represented by Vincent Duffy, news director, Michigan Radio, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Region 11 is represented by Lane Beauchamp, New York.

Region 12 and 13 are vacant and will be filled by appointment by the chairman.

Representatives elected to the RTNDA board also serve as RTNDF trustees.

A complete list of board members is available here.

RTNDA is the world’s largest professional organization devoted exclusively to electronic journalism. RTNDA represents local and network news professionals in broadcasting, cable and digital media in more than 20 countries.

Woelfel is an associate professor at the Missouri School of Journalism and the news director for KOMU-TV.

Watch the video after the jump.

Follow our live blog after the jump to hear from traffic reporters and those who provide the content.

Kathy Walker, news director at KOA-AM in Denver, is our live blogger for this session.

In his current job as head of the new media division of the Las Vegas Sun and Greenspun Media Group, his team is producing online video programming that’s now migrating to television and turning the market on its head with a completely new approach to news.

He sharedhis insights this morning in a joint RTNDA/BEA super session.

Follow the live blog now after the jump.

Our guest blogger for this session was former RTNDA chair Angie Kucharski.

Rebekah Maxwell, a Drake University student and recipient of the Mike Reynolds Scholarship, addressed attendees on behalf of her fellow winners.

Watch her comments after the jump.

The Radio and Television News Directors Foundation awarded nine scholarships and two fellowships for 2008. The awards are made on a competitive basis with nearly half of the scholarships and fellowships dedicated to minorities, including those created by broadcast journalists Ed Bradley, Carole Simpson and Ken Kashiwahara.

In addition to Maxwell, the other scholarship winners are:

• Katherine Hall, Columbia University: Abe Schechter Scholarship
• Brandon Lewis, University of Missouri: Carole Simpson Scholarship
• Brandon Richard, University of Central Oklahoma: Ed Bradley Scholarship
• Emily Graves, University of Texas at Austin: George Foreman Tribute to Lyndon B. Johnson Scholarship
• Randy Gyllenhaal, Elon University: Ken Kashiwahara Scholarship
• James Foley, Emerson College: Lou & Carole Prato Sports Reporting Scholarship
• Sarah Hollenbeck, University of Missouri: President’s Scholarship
• Kim Saltmarsh, Hofstra University: President’s Scholarship

Fellowship Winners

• Lila Ibrahim Merideth, Associated Press: Michele Clark Fellowship
• Hatzel Vela, WCSC-TV in Charleston, SC: N.S. Bienstock Fellowship

In addition to a cash award, winners will receive a complimentary RTNDA membership and an expense-paid trip to RTNDA@NAB.

Past RTNDF scholarship winners include David Muir of ABC News, Bernard Choi of KING-TV in Seattle, and David Louie of KGO-TV in San Francisco, who also serves on the RTNDA and RTNDF Board of Directors.

RTNDF provides training programs, seminars, scholarship support and research in areas of critical concern to electronic news professionals and their audience. The foundation’s work is supported by contributions from foundations, corporations, members of RTNDA and other individuals.

Curley, a guru for community journalism online that targets a younger audience, is the featured speaker at the morning Super Session, produced with the Broadcast Education Association.

See Wednesday’s complete schedule.

Webb shared “10 Tech Trends You Never Heard Of” and left the journalists clamoring for more.

(Check after the jump for a special link!)

Webb has spent more than 15 years working within media as a reporter, publisher and consultant. She runs the Baltimore-based Webbmedia Group.

Webb’s graciously made available all the resources, links and guides she shared in her session. Check them out.

For a quicker review, RTNDA@NAB special correspondent Brittney Johnson (a graduate student at the University of California-Berkeley) recaps Webb’s 10 trends.

Trend 1: Geospatial Web — Mapping applications such as Google Earth and other mobile navigation systems can pinpoint your geographical location at any time. These applications allow various companies to send location specific information straight to your mobile device.

Trend 2: Bluetooth Content — Bluetooth devices are not simply replacements for a hands-free mobile headset, they allow two devices to share various types of content, like audio and video. Through your Bluetooth you are “discoverable” and marketers can target you and send you location specific information, which leads us to our next tech trend.

Trend 3: Location Based Services — These services use geospatial Web space to send you content. For example, Loopt is a service that allows you to connect with friends in the same area through your cell phone and track their movement. You can also receive information about nearby movie or restaurant specials. News content providers could use the same tools to send out location specific breaking news to their viewers.

Trend 4: Hyper-convergence — In the near future, sites like TiVO will be able stream user-generated content from YouTube. Boxee already aggregates sites like Hulu and YouTube.

Trend 5: Multi-screen Media — On which screens can your content be seen? People look at their Facebook, Twitter and NetFlix accounts on their computer, television and mobile devices. Is your content available in all of these places?

Trend 6: Mobile Digital TV (MDTV) — Technology is currently being developed that will allow us to watch live television on our mobile phones. Mobile Digital TV will allow people to get the information that they want at a time that’s convenient for them and on a platform that they’re comfortable with.

Trend 7: API-fication — Webb described API (Application Programming Interface) as an RSS feed “with a splash of crack.” It aggregates content and allows programmers to create in-house applications that others can use on the site. Twitter and The New York Times both have APIs.

Trend 8: Hyper-personal — The same concept that music site Pandora uses to break down your musical preferences and match you with other artists you might like, could be used to help news consumers stay connected to and find articles and stories that suit their personal interests.

Trend 9: Mobi-Image Search — Mobi-Imaging programs can recognize colors and faces and match them. They have also been used to create two-dimensional bar codes that can be scanned into a mobile device to give information. For example, they are currently being used on food items to help people find nutritional information.

Trend 10: Socialitics — This a term Webb uses to describe the politics of the social networking world. It’s not about the number of friends you have on Facebook or followers on Twitter, it’s about the amount of engagement and activity taking place on your pages. There are sites like Twicksize and Technorati that show how many other blogs have linked to a site or how many people are actually holding conversations with their followers on Twitter.

The hands-on session was well-received. Get a participant’s perspective from Jen Reeves, the New Media Director at KOMU.com, who also is an associate professor at the Missouri School of Journalism and faculty fellow with the new Reynolds Journalism Institute.

Read Reeves’ blog post.

Follow the live blog of this super session after the jump.

Jill Geisler of the Poynter Institute serves as our live blogger for this session.

On Tuesday, a panel with diverse journalism experience debated the role of reporters in social media, our responsibility toward citizen journalists and how to address advertiser influence in tough economic times and more.