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Wednesday Jul 01, 2009

The Future Of Multiplatform Journalism: Giving Readers What They Want

reuters panel.pngAfter wrapping up two days of the Personal Democracy Forum yesterday, we ran over to a panel hosted by Reuters and the Society of American Business Editors and Writers discussing the future of journalism in a multimedia world.

Moderated by Reuters' global managing editor Betty Wong, the panel included New York Times business and financial editor Lawrence Ingrassia, a very pregnant Financial Times U.S. managing editor Chrystia Freeland, Columbia Journalism School dean Sree Sreenivasan and mediabistro.com founder Laurel Touby.

Wong opened up the conversation by asking the panelists how media companies can make the best of all their resources, in order to take advantage of the many different platforms available.

"We all have to ask ourselves, 'What do our readers really want?'" Freeland said. She added that journalists are entrepreneurial at heart and want to create a brand and a Web presence for themselves, but it's up to the editors and management to decide what's best for the news organization. "The turning point came when journalists realized that it is in their personal interest to have a Web presence," she said. "Journalists became journalists to become famous and make a name for themselves."

Photo: Thomson Reuters Markets CEO Devin Wenig (right) introduces the panel featuring (from left) Touby, Sreenivasan, Freeland and Ingrassia

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Tuesday Jun 30, 2009

Wrapping Up At The Personal Democracy Forum

pdf.pngThe past couple days have been filled with a flurry of panels and presentations about technology, politics and new media. There's been so much information flying around, its hard to sort through all the noise. That's why we were so pleasantly surprised by Kansas State University professor Michael Wesch's presentation at the Personal Democracy Forum this morning about YouTube and the new media generation.

As a cultural anthropologist, Wesch examines how YouTube -- and social media Web sites like Twitter and Facebook -- have made people voyeurs and over-sharers. His entrancing presentation, which included some popular YouTube videos and their tributes, remixes and satires, drew the only standing ovation we saw at PDF.

This afternoon, we sat in on a panel about how the "Internet Ecosystem" can improve journalism -- a topic we have ruminated upon ourselves. Moderated by PDF founder Andrew Rasiej, the panel included Frank Rich of The New York Times, Time magazine's Karen Tumulty, Dan Gillmor of the Center for Citizen Media and NPR's Scott Simon.

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Monday Jun 29, 2009

Talking Social Media And Twitter At The Personal Democracy Forum

pdf2.jpgDuring the afternoon session at the Personal Democracy Forum today, we sat in on one panel about citizen journalism and another focused on organizing and fundraising using Twitter.

The first panel of the afternoon was moderated by The Nation's Ari Melber and featured social media experts Amanda Michel of ProPublica.org, NPR's Andy Carvin, Twittervision's Dave Troy and Andrew Turner of GeoCommons.

The panel discussed using crowd sourcing and citizen journalists to report and develop stories. These tools were the key to covering stories like the 2008 election cycle and the inauguration festivities. The group talked about why citizens want to get involved, deciding that involvement can be attributed to many different factors, from political motivation, curiosity or just to check where tax dollars are being spent.

"Sometimes imminent danger motivates people," Carvin said, adding that more than 500 people volunteered to report news and information for NPR in the days leading up to Hurrican Gustav's landing last year."But I can't get people on board a hurricane project for this year until there is a storm about to hit."

Michel, who worked for the Huffington Post's Off the Bus project during the election last year, said that although she needs to check information from politically motivated sources carefully, sometimes they make the best sources.

"It needs to be an issue they care about -- either they or their friends or family is involved -- something there to pull them in," agreed Turner. "They are not going to get involved just because it's in front of them."

(Photo: Melber, Turner, Michel, Troy and Carvin talk citizen journalism)

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Notes From The Personal Democracy Forum: Talks About Social Media, Transparency and Government

pdf.jpgToday and tomorrow, FishbowlNY will be reporting from the Personal Democracy Forum, a conference that focuses on the intersection of politics and technology.

This morning, after a keynote from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (in which he revealed that his home phone number was listed in the phone book for many years until a reporter discovered it and published it) we sat through presentations by Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com, Ning.com founder Gina Bianchini, Harvard researchers Danah Boyd and David Weinberger and media critic Jeff Jarvis.

(Photo: Jeff Jarvis presents at the Personal Democracy Forum on Monday morning)

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Wednesday May 20, 2009

Newmark, Sklar, Sullivan Talk Consumer Protection With Consumer Reports and Consumerist

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Last night's panel (from left to right) Kevin McKean, Craig Newmark, Rachel Sklar, Ben Popken and Bob Sullivan

Last night, we hit a panel at 92Y Tribeca hosted by the Consumerist and Consumer Reports that focused on online media's contribution to consumer protection.

The panel, moderated by Consumer Reports' editorial director Kevin McKean, featured Consumerist co-executive editor Ben Popken, Craigslist.org founder Craig Newmark, former Huffington Post contributor Rachel Sklar (who is currently working for Abrams Research) and consumer reporter Bob Sullivan, who writes MSNBC's the Red Tape Chronicles column.

Throughout the discussion, Sullivan represented a traditional media point of view while Popken commented on the differences a Web site like Consumerist can make in getting companies to recognize and react to consumer complaints. Newmark advocated social media and consumers' individual responsibilities to speak up, while Sklar, quoting Ronald Reagan, warned consumers to "Trust, but verify," their sources of information.

"Anybody who wants to can be an authority, can be a blog publisher, can make their opinion known, can make their experiences known, can join in a movement if they wish," Sklar said.

More after the jump

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Tuesday May 19, 2009

Meet The Teachers Tonight!

partyhat.jpgIf there's one thing we like to do here at mediabistro.com, it's party. Tonight, we're offering you the opportunity to meet and network with the people who teach mediabistro.com courses at our Meet The Teachers Party.

Instructors like Alexis DiResta, Alison Pace, Beverly Goodman, Cara Birnbaum, Brett Leveridge, Cheryl Della Pietra, Christa Bourg, Christine Egan, Darragh Worland and David Tristman will all be there, and you'll have a chance to score discounts on seminars, workshops and classes.

Interested? More details after the jump or click here to RSVP.

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Friday May 15, 2009

New York Review of Magazines Celebrates Its Spring Issue

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Thursday evening, we stopped by B. Smith's in Midtown for the party celebrating the Spring 2009 issue of the New York Review of Magazines, which is produced by students at the Columbia School of Journalism.

In his speech during the festivities, NYRM's advisor Victor Navasky, publisher emeritus of The Nation and director of Columbia J-School's Center for Magazine Journalism, joked about how this was the rare magazine event where no one was worried about losing their job. After he gave his toast, Navasky spoke with us about why he doesn't think print magazines will disappear and why he didn't agree with New York magazine's take on the purported "existential crisis" at the Columbia School of Journalism.

(photo by Mirjam Donath)

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Wednesday May 06, 2009

Recession Puts Media Conferences On Hold

NMA-2009-Lg.gifTraditionally, media types like to party amongst themselves, dress up in tuxedos and eat chocolate fondue and call it an industry confab. But times are tough. As the print media shrinks, so too do the glitzy, pricey conferences.

Both the American Society of Newspaper Editors and the Magazine Publishers of America have canceled their annual meetings this year due to high price tags and low expected attendance.

However, sometimes the show must go on. Last week, the American Society of Magazine Editors held their 44th Annual National Magazine awards dinner, albeit with some modifications -- they dumped the popular chocolate fondue, scaled back the cheese bar and decided not to ask attendees to don black tie attire, Forbes reported.

Meanwhile, here at Mediabistro we're gearing up for a conference of our own, Mediabistro Circus, which is going on as planned on June 2-3. We'll be there, will you?

What do you think about industry groups canceling conferences and awards banquets? Leave your thoughts in the comments.

Tuesday May 05, 2009

Where Can You Find the Commissioners of All Four Major Sports?

wsj05.05.09.jpgTomorrow they will be appearing on a panel for The Wall Street Journal. The NHL's Gary B. Bettman, the NFL's Roger Goodell, MLB's Bud Selig and David Stern from the NBA will discuss The Future of Sports (it's capitalized because it's Important). WSJ sports editor Sam Walker will moderate and Robert Thomson, editor-in-chief of
Dow Jones & Company and managing editor of the WSJ, will host the event.

According to a release, "the event will address the business of sports, including the challenges and opportunities the leagues face in the current economic climate, as well as issues of competition and matters that are important to fans."

There will be a live Webcast of the panel on WSJ.com and FoxSports.com starting at 9 a.m.

Thursday Apr 30, 2009

Tina Brown: "Ben Franklin Would Have Been a Passionate Blogger"

"Maybe the newspaper will live and maybe it won't, but the question is where is the journalism going to go?"

That was one of the questions raised by TheDailyBeast.com founder Tina Brown today during the IFC Media Project panel at the Paley Center of Media. Also featured, Peggy Noonan, who appreciates the new media landscape. "There is a broad wasteland of banality out there, but there is more variety than there was when I was a kid and I love it," she said.

And bridging new and old school, Brown thinks "Ben Franklin would have been a passionate blogger."

Below, Noonan describes why reporting for "PeggyNoonan.com" may not get desired results, and after the jump, former Bush administration press secretary Ari Fleischer on why the Web is beginning to compete with the "front page":



Click continued to see Fleischer's "front page" vs. Web theory (and the rest of the panel's response)...

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Previously

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PEN World Voices Festival in NYC

ASSME* Launches Group Blog

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'

Media Reporters' Online News Hindsight: 'It Was Stupid For Newspapers To Give Away Their Sh*t For Free'

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

Glamour Turns 70!

MPA Cancels Annual AMC Conference

Ooh La La! Festival of New French Writing Comes to NYC

Blogging As Bloodsport?

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

Adopt A "Canned"-Do Attitude

Twittering the Shortys!

Jeff Jarvis Talks Google, The College Humor Show Throws a Party

Laurel Touby Twitters TED2009

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!

Watch Today's 'New Business Models for News Summit' from the Comfort of Your Own Computer

What Recession? Nerve Parties Like It's 1929

Cosmo EIC: 'It's a Bachelor Bailout!'

Time Warner Politics Summit Women and the Election Panel: Let's Talk About Sarah Palin

FBNY at Day Two of the Time Politics Summit 2008

Does Frank Rich Read His Own Comments Section?

New York 40th Anni Celebration This Weekend

Julia Allison at mb Branding Panel: 'Either I Have Balls or I'm Delusional'

Superman, David Hirshey and Daily News Reporter Sean Evans Play Soccer in Chinatown

ESPN Senior Ed.: "It's Worth Being Poor To Be Able To Do What You Love"

Match Made in Hell: Paper and Thrillist

Jon Hamm Introduces Yahoo's New APT

Good's Convo Series Launch Promotes Education Reform, Itself

Matt Damon, Jeffrey Sachs and Conde Nast Traveler Fight for Eco-Tourism

Boho Magazine Launch: Peace, Love, and Vodka

Politico on Martha Stewart: McCain Makes Martha Feel 'Weird'

Forbes Re-Launches Opinion Channel With 16 New Columnists

Breaking Bread With Food and Travel EICs

City Founder: In New Economy, Focus on 'CP-Relevant Customer' Not CPM

Where the Wild Things Are: Maurice Sendak Turns 80 and the 92 St Y Celebrates

Hope for Wall St.? BusinessWeek Wins Media League Softball

Feel Good Fridays: Support World Orphan Week (and Win $1,000)

High Times Staff Attempts to Prove Usefulness With Softball Prowess

PC Mag EIC: 'Hudson News Better Get Ready -- Their Stores Are Going to Be Cut in Half'

What Exactly Is Next at ASME?

Google Celebrates the World Not Ending

Thinking Ahead: The Atlantic Teams Up With Charlie Rose

Covering Fashion Week: You've Got the Look, and the Blog, and the Twitter

GQ Fetes Jay-Z's Artful Dodger

We Can't Find Any Magazines at WSJ. Launch Party

Radar Ed. Glad People Pick Choke-ing Over Obama

Nina Garcia at Large 'At the Moment'

Cannonball Run Generation 2.0

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