After a Random Act of Media, the WeMedia Forum Miami dove into its Investment forum, which asked “Who will pay for new ways to understand news and act on it?” The panel included a mixture of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs; Scott Rafer, MyBlogLog; Chris Ahearn, Reuters; Jeff Taylor, Monster and Eons; Chris Versace, Agile Equity; […]
The audience is straying from traditional media and citizen journalism, mostly done pro bono is proliferating. So where is the money going to come from to maintain huge news organizations and how will those that do media from their heart be paid? Stephanie Flanders of the BBC led the Business Forum, discussing this issue with […]
Jeffery Sachs joined the Forum via satellite from Columbia University in New York to talk about poverty and famine in other parts of the world and how the interconnected world can help those plights. The media is crucial in making the West understand this interconnectivity, how a tragedy in one part of the world affects […]
Co-founder of Global Voices Rebecca MacKinnon led a discussion about how technology is affecting Chinese society with rapporteur Rachel Rawlins (Global Voices), and Jean-Marc Coicaud (UNU), Rudy Chan (China.com), David Schlesinger (Reuters), Michael Tong (NetEase.com) and Marcus Xiang (PDX.CN). Although Westerners originally thought freedom of expression and information on the Internet would bring down the […]
Head of global news at Reuters, Geert Linnebank welcomed the delegates to the new worldwide headquarters of the world’s largest information company. He said that new content publishing capabilities are the latest challenge to established news organizations. Reuters has always used the latest technology available to distribute the news. Linnebank said that technology at the […]
Wadah Khanfar – Al Jazeera Originally uploaded by We Media London. Wadah Khanfar of Al Jazeera speaks during the session, “Leaders Forum | Media and the Connected Society, Part 2” Photo by Photo by Paul Hackett – Reuters.Nik Gowing of the BBC led this discussion about how the Internet is changing traditional business models of […]
Conversation – Trust, Media and Society Originally uploaded by We Media London. Nihal Arthanayake (BBC), Karen Stephenson (Media Center), David Brain (Edelman)and David Schlesinger (Reuters) during the session “The Power of Trust Forum | How Trust and Empowerment Shape Our Global Society.” Photo by Paul Hackett – Reuters. In the WeMedia’s first session, Merrill Brown […]
After an introduction from Richard Sambrooke, Media Center director Andrew Nachison opens the forum admitting that although the purpose of the Media Center is to develop a better informed society, it doesn’t really know what that means… By the end of the day, we’re sure to have a better idea. Andrew continued saying a major […]
Why should we be optimistic that these sytems of work are going to work, or are going to change human nature? Panelists differed on their views some saying that we may still have ‘further to slide’ before we start to reform ourselves, others thinking that we’ve reached that point already. Wacker – 3 things going […]
The panelists continued with the issue of the public lost of trust in corporations. Wacker then got into the ability everyday people have to create their own reality. The present environment makes it difficult for people to figure out who they trust. This needs to be changed. People need to find a common context with […]