The day after the forum, the BBC held it’s own internal meeting to digest and reflect some of the We Media thinking, with a panel chaired by Richard Sambrook, director of global news. The contributors were : Rebecca MacKinnon of Global Voices: Dan Gillmor, Director of the Center for Citizen Media and Author of We […]

We came, some didn’t. We blogged, others made their contributions felt in other ways, and then as the last person left the Reuters building you could almost hear the call: “leave the light on”. In the last two days, a white piece of paper transformed into a full blown symphony of people meeting in person […]

I shut down our wrap-up party for a few minutes to thank a few of the many, many people who helped us hold the forum. My brain was beyond dead and I forgot to thank. Chad Capellman. Chad produced and ran this web site for us. Chad used to be on our staff. He moved […]

The two day WE MEDIA crush conference raised many issues, with some room for questions by the floor. WM Fellows were invited on May 2nd (the day before the WM Global Forum started) to brainstorm during an hour on some 15 major issues. WE MEDIA Director Andrew Nachison collected the answers for a tentative call […]

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 […]

Moderated by Rachel Rawlins (Global Voices), with Ory Okolloh (Reuters) via Satellite from Johannesburg, South Africa, Mathew Buckland (Mail & Guardian), Wilfred Kiboro (Nation Media Group), WM Fellows, Megan Knight, Middlesex University Running about 30 minutes behind schedule, the Africa portion of the We The World series, began as individuals marched back in from the […]

Today’s We Media Global conference is taking place at the very fancy Reuters Global headquarters at Canary Wharf. Yesterday we met at the BBC, at a different style of building altogether (someone actually compared it to a run down hospital). But both buildings shared something very obvious: these are news organisations. At Reuters, visitors are […]

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 […]

Everyone knows the film, even if they can’t remember the talented director. The film has become part of our visual landscape and set a standard for those who would follow. And the film was. . . the one that showed the beating of Rodney King, the film showing the botched landing of a plane on […]

Media and Civic Discourse With Richard Dreyfuss, Actor and Activist Download MP3 Citizen Journalism Forum | Who’s Making the News? A conversation moderated by Paul Holmes (Reuters), with Helen Boaden (BBC), George Brock (The Times), David Gyimah (Video Journalist), Andrew Hawken (MSN.com), Salam Pax (talkleft.com, via satellite)Part 1 | Part 2 Meet the Digital Assassins […]

While in Southern Africa there is a contrast of Zimbabwe with an arguably “non free” press and South Africa with an arguably “free” press, both countries have similar problems with accessibility isssues for the communities. These issues relate to basic infrastructure issues, such as access to the hardware for blogging, which illustrate the digital divide […]

Satellite television has been the primary driver or catalyst of the changes going on in the Arab media sphere, says the session’s moderator — Keith Porter from the Stanley Foundation. Porter positions panArab news channels like Jazeera and Arabiya as the spearheaders of this move towards a much more aware and accountable media regionwide, Satellite […]

This post was contributed by Kookie Habtegaber of MediaChannel The media has the most impact and attention in the North, where life is more or less impossible without telecommunication and digital connection. Since the population of this part of the world also has a monopoly on the world’s riches and resources one way or another, […]

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 […]

Tom Glocer – Reuters Originally uploaded by We Media London. Tom Glocer, CEO of Reuters talks during the session “Big Idea 4: The Democratization of Media – Where does trust fit in?” at Day 2 of the We Media Global Forum. Photo by Paul Hackett, ReutersHighlights from Tom’s talk: The growth of participatory media is […]