Columbia J-school’s annual look at the media revolution, with several media influencers – and no Powerpoint! Columbia-Hearst Journalism Dialogues and the Columbia Journalism Alumni Association present: Changing Media Landscape 2008
Comments in Bullet Points and direct quotes appear in quotes. Moderated by Sree Sreenivasan -Dean of Student Affairs & Professor Columbia Journalism School.
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- There will be no powerpoint presentations here
- Text me your questions live
- or Email me your questions live
- or Walk up to the mic
- “blogs to traditional news sources – we will fact check your ass”
Sewell Chan, blogger/bureau chief, New York Times “City Room” blog (coming from midtown) http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/
“newspapers are now referred to as nytimes.com print edition”
“we are feeds”
David Cohn, J2008, founder, Spot.us, a new crowdfunding investigative journalism project; winner of $300,000 Knight News Challenge grant (coming from San Francisco) http://spot.us http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/weekinreview/24kershaw.html
- Roughly quoting HERE COMES EVERYBODY author Clay Shirky, “the difference between pro and am has deteriorated”.
- “Start cheap, community trumps technology every time”.
Adriano Farano, executive editor, CafeBabel.com – the first multilingual European current affairs online magazine (coming from Paris) http://www.cafebabel.com
- nothing quotable, i think there was something lost in translation.
Erica Smith, news designer, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and “Paper Cuts” blogger (coming from St. Louis) http://graphicdesignr.net/papercuts
- At this time, “41 newspaper jobs being lost per day”.
- “I haven’t been laid off yet because I can use Internet applications better than the other person”.
Jacob Weisberg, chairman and editor-in-chief Slate Group – Slate, Slate V, The Root, and the Big Money (coming from downtown) http://www.slate.com
- “New and traditional media are NOW diverging rapidly”
- Journalists who haven’t immersed themselves in new media will not be able to catch up.
- “Journalisn will survive the death of its institutions”
- “Economic crisis will accelerate declines”
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