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Media EventsMother Jones Gets Bittman
Bittman, who contacted the magazine after their issue last year on food security, spent the night mingling with admirers and Jones staffers while teaching them how to roll their own pasta and make their own casseroles with more greens than meat. Meanwhile, Mother Jones' had a couple announcements of its own. Good Riddance To The Mainstream Media? Not Quite YetThe New York Times' David Carr stole the show at last night's Intelligence Squared debate on the merits of the mainstream media, when he pulled out a print out of fellow debater Michael Wolff's Web site Newser all full of holes. Carr had cut out every story on Newser that came from the main stream media to prove his point: new media couldn't exist without venerable mainstream pubs like the Times. Ultimately, Carr's side -- debating against the proposition "Good Riddance to the Main Stream Media" -- won the night, with 68 percent of the audience agreeing that we should not, in fact, say good riddance to the MSM. But Carr and his mainstream-representing colleagues, Phil Bronstein from the San Francisco Chronicle and the Nation's Katrina Vanden Heuvel, may have just lucked out. Their argument for maintaining the mainstream media seemed to simply boil down to the fact that there are some good things about it that need to be preserved, and new media is taking the best and claiming it for itself. Also, without the mainstream media, where would the debaters all work? (More video and pictures after the jump) Local NY Bloggers Speak: Why Write, When You Can Aggregate?
"300 words, max...anything else, it's an essay." Those were the words of New York blogger Jake Dobkin at last night's panel for The Future of Local Media. The topic this month was "Local Journalism: What's Cool In Your Hood?" But, the only thing the panelists could seem to agree upon was the more posts, the better -- even when it means the death of any original journalism. "We write 20 to 24 pieces of content a day," said Jonathan Butler, founder of Brooklyn blog Brownstoner. "Generally all but three of those pieces are original reporting...Picture posts are great." Dobkin, who founded Gothamist in 2003, was definitely seeking to provoke his audience. When asked about the concept of pay walls for online publications, the young entrepreneur flippantly replied that this would be the best thing for his business. "Have them charge $20 for content! No one else will pay, but we will, and we will steal their stories," he said. "That's my two year plan." Behind the bluster, Dobkin has a point: Why pay for original content when blogs will aggregate it for their readers for free? The News Literacy Project: Bringing Accountability Into the Classroom
Launched last spring, the NLP brings journalists from across the media world to social studies, English, and history classes in middle and high schools in New York City, Maryland, and Chicago where they teach students how to think critically and pick out reliable information from the overwhelming amount of news that bombards them every day. Last night's fundraiser included panels with some of the inaugural members of the program, including Anabel Rivas, a graduate of New York's Facing History School (one of the three public schools that participated in the first NLP program), as well as Facing History's principal Gillian Smith, Vice Principal Mark Otto and AP English teacher Kristina Wylie, whose classroom was one of the first to benefit from the News Literacy Program. CJR Panel: Is Web Journalism Profitable?
So with these veteran reporters speaking about new media endeavors, did anyone produce a new perspective on web journalism or its potential lucrativeness? NPR's Schiller: "Our Plans For Going Forward Is More"
Schiller then took a moment to run quickly through some sad statistics of the media industry -- statistics we know all too well. Like, for example, 11 percent of full time news jobs were cut in 2008. Or that major newspapers in San Francisco and Boston lose about $1 million a day. Ouch. "This is pretty grim stuff," Schiller admitted. "But we're in the middle of such a change, an evolution or revolution in the news business." Schiller said she remains optimistic because new models will rise out of the ashes of the dying media business model. How Social Media Is Helping The Traditional Newsroom
Rome Hartman, Rachel Sterne, Michael Meyers and Scott Karp on the UGCX stage This morning we visited mediabistro.com's user-generated content focused conference, UGCX, to listen in on a conversation about how social media is changing the face of the newsroom. The morning panel, moderated by "BBC World News America" executive producer Rome Hartman, featured Ground Report editor-in-chief Rachel Sterne, NowPublic co-founder Michael Meyers and Publish2 co-founder Scott Karp and conversation ranged from water-skiing squirrels to Fox News. Sterne and Meyers talked about how user-generated journalism and informational content can change the face of reporting news, using their own models as examples of that. Both Ground Report and NowPublic use a Wikipedia type model that allows citizen journalists to publish their own work. Meyers also oversees Examiner.com, which hires expert "examiners" to write about specific topics. Karp's company helps traditional media organizations curate social media from the Web in real time, helping reporters gather news. The result of these new sites and tools is that "regular people, like us, or anybody, have more power to contribute to the news process," Sterne said. Karp pointed out another upside: traditional media organizations can quickly update or correct stories. Where once a newspaper would publish once a day, sometimes with incomplete information, now they can constantly update stories, folding information from social media into reporting done the old fashioned way. This is more important than ever, he said, since "people are following in real time." Norman Mailer Colony Gala: A Night of Media, Literary Superstars
It takes a lot to bring America's greatest living fiction, non-fiction, and journalism writers into one room, but if one woman could do, it's Tina Brown. The Daily Beast editor-in-chief hosted the first ever Norman Mailer Colony soiree at Cipriani last night, to celebrate the non-profit in which promising young writers get to live in Norman Mailer's house in Massachusetts for a week to a month. Guests included Salman Rushdie, Joan Didion, Richard Goodwin, Michael Cunningham, Jeffrey Eugenides, Annie Leibovitz, New Yorker editor-in-chief David Remnick and master of ceremonies, Calvin Trillin. Among the revelers were also editors and writers from The Nation, Budget Travel, The New Yorker, The New York Times and The Week. A few pictures from the night after the jump. Earlier: Norman Mailer Writers Colony To Honor Toni Morrison, David Halberstam Martha Stewart Weddings: Let Them Eat Cake
There were a couple signs that all was not right in the state of Denmark. Magazine Conference Offers Glimmer Of Hope For Industry
The second day of Magazine Publishers of America conference fell into three tracks for attendees to choose from; Advertising, Marketing, and Editorial. The editorial forum included a final, much-anticipated panel titled "The Decline and Rise of Magazine Journalism," moderated by Slate head honcho Jacob Weisberg and included panelists Nick Denton from Gawker, Simon Dumenco, and Susan Morrison of The New Yorker. So what was said behind these closed doors? PreviouslyNew Yorker Festival Descends On Titular City Excitement For BusinessWeek Deal At MPA Conference Norman Mailer Writers Colony To Honor Toni Morrison, David Halberstam Women Dish About Working For Women Party Photos: Monday's Mediabistro Women's Magazine Editors Panel Women's Magazine Editors Lead the New Media Movement Social Ad Summit Report: Wikipedia Founder On Helping Kidnapped Journos More Helps Women Reinvent Themselves Learning To Take A Risk: Mag Editors Meet To Discuss The Move From Print To Digital Women's Mag Editors Meet To Discuss Launching Online Publications Wired Editor Chris Anderson Squares Off Against Macmillan CEO John Sargent on Free and Paid Content Condé Nast Traveler Shows Travel Industry How To Save The World Twitter Ticket Giveaway For Next Week's New Age In Advertising Panel Ira Glass Reveals The End Of "This American Life" TV Show Cronkite To Be Honored At New York Press Club Annual Conference Photos From Mediabistro's Producing Online Content Panel Dress Designer Reem Acra Skypes With Wedding Bloggers Internet Week Announces 2010 Dates Trying To Find A Business Model That Works Web Journalists To Debate Business Model At Upcoming Mediabistro Panel Leaders From Air America, FT Say Future Of Media Is A World Of Niches Before The Scandal, WaPo Publisher Weymouth Talked New Revenue Streams At Aspen Ideas Fest The Future Of Multiplatform Journalism: Giving Readers What They Want Wrapping Up At The Personal Democracy Forum Talking Social Media And Twitter At The Personal Democracy Forum Notes From The Personal Democracy Forum: Talks About Social Media, Transparency and Government Newmark, Sklar, Sullivan Talk Consumer Protection With Consumer Reports and Consumerist New York Review of Magazines Celebrates Its Spring Issue Recession Puts Media Conferences On Hold Where Can You Find the Commissioners of All Four Major Sports? Tina Brown: "Ben Franklin Would Have Been a Passionate Blogger" Masters of Design to Converge in Tribeca PEN World Voices Festival in NYC Nobel Prize Winner Le Clezio to Appear at PEN Festival Digital VP at mb Panel: Social Media Lets PR Pros 'Talk To People On A Granular Level' Salman Rushdie Launches PEN World Voices Festival Nieman Speaker to Writers: 'The Business Model Is Broken -- You Are Not Broken' SXSW '09 Wrapup: A Whole Lot of Twitter Going On Further Distpatches from SXSWi '09 Live Tweeting 'Sex Lives of the Microfamous' Twittering the TVNewser Summit Video from Today's Summit Panel 'New Tools of the Trade' Magazine Pro to Newbies: Downturn a 'Petri Dish For Innovation' The Atlantic Talks to Rich People About the Economy Twittering MPA's Magazines 24/7 David Carr on the Future of the NYT Portfolio Mag's Madoff Breakfast Parents Exec Ed. On Post-Layoff Success: "Work On The Sympathy Factor -- And Work Fast" Mashable: The State of the NYC Blogosphere is Crowded MPA Cancels Annual AMC Conference Ooh La La! Festival of New French Writing Comes to NYC Pre-Summit Party in New York City Pros On Downturn-Era Digital Marketing: 'Someone's Laughing All The Way To The Bank' Lunch With the Beast, Twestival with Charity:Water The Shorty Awards: A Look Back Jeff Jarvis Talks Google, The College Humor Show Throws a Party 2009 MBA Media & Entertainment Conference Featuring Jeff Zucker Has Google Been Hacked? 'This Site May Harm Your Computer' Appears on All Search Results Twitter a Hot Topic at mb's 'Journalists and Social Media' Panel Never Ask for Directions Again! Mayor Launches New NYC Info Center and Website PRWeek EIC: Social Media's Influence 'Terrifying, But Ultimately Edifying' What Surprised Michael Wolff Most About Rupert Murdoch May Also Surprise You! Can't Get No Customer Satisfaction? Learn How Atlantic Publisher: Without 'Life Beyond The Page,' Mags Will Suffer Flavorpill Goes National With a Daily Email The Huffington Post's World Page to Highlight 'Global Stories and Voices' GQ Manages to Party On in Style I Want Media's 'Media Person of the Year' Twittering Mumbai: Citizen Journalism Gets One Step Closer to the Mainstream Thrillist Celebrates Its Third Anniversary Ann Moore and Martha Stewart to Receive Magazine Industry Lifetime Achievement Awards AdweekMedia Announces Buzz Award Winners 2008 Financial Follies '08: Wherein the Crisis Sounds Better Put to Music New York Press Club Media Job Market Panel Featuring Laurel Touby Which Media Holiday Parties Can't Be Stopped? Changes in the Knight Fellowships Program Six Apart Unveils a Journalist Bailout Program (Limited-Time Offer) Partying With Tina Brown and The Daily Beast: 'I Would Never Ask a Writer to Work for Free' William Kristol is Ambivalent About His Future at the New York Times Time Person of the Year Luncheon: Let's Talk About the Economy American Lion: Jon Meacham's Book Party and a Whole Lot of Presidential Trivia Working Mother Ed.: 'Even In A Time Like This, You Can Think Forward' Time's Person of the Year Award Women's Mag Editors to Eat For Sixth Year In A Row Glamour Women of the Year Awards: 'I'd Like to Thank My Mother' David Carr and Others Attempt to Spell for Charity Martha Stewart Co-CEO: Internet Advertising 'Makes Me Cry But Not For The Right Reasons' Liz Smith, David Carr, and Others Discuss Journalism and Privacy Radar Aftermath: Ana Marie Cox Requesting Your Help Flavorpill Goes National With New Daily Blog Flavorwire The Media World Cancels Christmas! 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