Who Will Pay the Messengers?
Laura Walker – General Manager – WNYC, New York
Wins the prize with the first reference to the Kindle.
Describing her subway ride in NYC where only five people were reading a paper newspaper, and three of those were the free am newspapers.
Public Media must aim to preserve local democracy.
3 Specific Areas of focus in the journalistic [...]
Who Will Pay the Messengers?
Josh Silver – Executive Director of Free Press (organization has been around for 7 years)
Involve the public in very important public policy debates – commercial media is abysmal
The reliance on coveted advertisers can skew the content and get them to shy away from some very important topics.
Reference to Vanity Fair article that Reality programming has [...]
Who will pay the messengers?
Public Broadcasting Act of 1967
“that constitute a source of alternative sources for all . . .”
ACCESS to information and networks
OUTREACH to underserved communities
SERVICE public with information
What should public media become given:
technological convergence; information abundance; new publics; participatory capabilities
The media no longer can just reach out but others also have to (and can) reach in
The case [...]
Who Will Pay the Messengers
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
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Save the Date: February 12-13, 2010
A2K4: Access to Knowledge and Human Rights Conference
Please save the date for the Fourth Access to Knowledge Conference (A2K4) scheduled to take place at Yale Law School on February 12-13, 2010.
Access to knowledge (A2K) is about designing intellectual property laws, telecommunication policies, and technical architectures that encourage broader participation in cultural, civic, and educational affairs; [...]
YLS CONFERENCE TOMORROW! JOURNALISM AND THE NEW MEDIA ECOLOGY
November 13th and 14th will see a host of media people descend on New Haven to participate in two days of intensive panel discussions about the emerging media ecology. If you’re coming, we’re looking forward to meeting you for what promises to be a thought-provoking weekend.
If you’re unable to make it up to New Haven, [...]
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