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 […]