December 1 Lecture on Gene Patents by ACLU Attorney Chris Hansen

The December 1 Yale ISP Speaker Series, co-sponsored with the Yale Law School Chapter of the American Constitution Society, will feature ACLU lawyer Chris Hansen discussing “Gene Patents: Patently Unconstitutional?” Chris Hansen is the lead attorney in Association for Molecular Pathology v. United States Patent and Trademark Office. The case addresses the patenting of the [...]

Talk by EFF’s Fred Von Lohmann November 17

The November 17 ISP Speaker Series will feature Fred Von Lohmann, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s senior staff attorney specializing in intellectual property matters. The name of his talk is “Owners of Copies v. Copyright Owners: Understanding Copyright’s Exhaustion Doctrine.”
The Ninth Circuit is poised to rule on three appeals that bring up the same issue: can [...]

Final Panel: the View from the Newsroom

It’s an honor to be liveblogging the final panel, featuring Linda Greenhouse, David Carr, Marcia Chambers, Bill Mitchell, and Ari Paul, and moderated by Emily Bazelon.
Linda Greenhouse observes that the Harvard Crimson created an endowment to subsidize students who otherwise would have had to do work-study at other parts of the university. Describes the benefits [...]

Direct and Indirect Government Subsidies, 1:45-3:15pm

Howdy everyone. This is Betsy Cooper, your humble rapporteur for the government subsidies panel. Our illustrious speakers for this panel, moderated by the ISP’s Nic Marais, include:
- Edwin Baker, University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Bruce Ackerman, Yale Law School. His paper is available here
- Stephen Nevas, Yale Information Society Project & Knight Law and Media [...]

Who Will Pay the Messengers? Non-profit and Foundation-funded Models, 11:15 – 12:45 PM

Greetings and salutations. This panel, moderated by Douglas Rand, will discuss the role of not-for-profit models and funding in the emerging ecology of news. The panelists are:
David Westphal, USC Annenberg
Bill Buzenberg, Center for Public Integrity
Robert Lang, Mannweiler Foundation
Patrick Kabat, Yale ISP
Nabiha Syed, Yale ISP
James Cutie, Connecticut News Project
Doug Rand: A conversation about the past, present [...]

The Changing Ecology of News Media: Saturday, 9 am – 11 am.

The Changing Ecology of News Media
Saturday, 9 am – 11 am.
Good morning! This panel, moderated by Yale ISP’s Chris Anderson, will explore the changing ecology of news media.
How do peer production models work and how well do they perform
traditional journalistic functions? How does a networked public sphere
operate and how does it provide salient [...]

Live Blogging — The Quest for Pay Models

Hi, this is David Robinson, live blogging the panel on The Quest for Pay Models. Our participants:

Penelope Abernathy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Steven Brill, Journalism Online Inc.
James Kennedy, Associated Press, VP for Strategy
Tom Glocer, CEO of Thomson-Reuters
Robert Pickard, Jonkoping University, Sweden

Here’s some background on Penelope Abernathy (bio). She asks, why have investors abandoned news [...]

Publicly Owned and Operated Media

LIVE BLOGGING (EXCUSE THE TYPOS)
Ellen Goodman – Rutgers University Law School
Public Media, from Broadcast to Broadband
What is the purpose of public broadcasting?
Original vision of 1967 Public Broadcasting Act – very contemporary, ahead of its time – universal service in every community and citizen engagement in every community

Preserving Local Journalism

Welcome, friends! We’re excited to explore ways to sustain local journalism. This panel, moderated by Adam Yoffie of the ISP, will be presented in two components: dimensions of the challenge and solutions to it.

Coming Up Next…

The Conference resumes at 1 p.m. EST with a panel on Preserving Local Journalism. The panel will comprise two discussions: Paul Starr (Princeton), Steven Wildman (Michigan State), and Lisa George (Hunter College) will frame the Dimensions of the Challenge, and Peter Shane (Knight Commission) and Paul Bass (New Haven Independent) will offer Possible Solutions. Join [...]

Who Uses The News, And How?

The Conference’s first panel aims to discuss the demand for news, who its audience is, what they’re looking for, and how the new and vast range of choices is affecting the consumption of traditional news. On the panel are Tom Rosenstiel (Director, Pew Center for Excellence in Journalism), Jay Rosen (New York University), Lee Rainie [...]

Twitter

One of our panelists, Steve Dennen, has just noted that Twitter’s year-on-year growth in unique visitors is an incredible 1,703% Certainly, conference participants are hitting the #kmedia tag. See the #kmedia search results, and add your own.
Also, the conference is streaming live through ustream. Watch and participate—from anywhere!
A sample from our Twitter feed after the [...]

Welcome To The Conference!

Welcome to this year’s Journalism and the New Media Ecology: Who Will Pay The Messengers? conference.
Dean Robert Post—who represented the Washington Post during his time at Williams & Connolly—welcomed participants. For Post, the question facing us is: when we think about the new media ecology, and how we want to reconstruct it, what are the [...]

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Former ISP resident fellow @grimmelm speaking about #gbs at Friday speaker series event right now! http://bit.ly/bxNGev 4 days ago
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