Digital natives face to face with us boomers

Digital natives: Who teaches whom? Moderator: Sam Grogg, Dean, UM School of Communication. Panelists: Greg Linch, multi media reporter and senior journalism major at UM. Sanjeev Chatterjee, professor of broadcasting and executive director of the Knight Center for International Media at UM. Jody Brannon, National Director News 21, Arizona State University. Krista Van Tassel, Net […]

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Our (We) Media Dissonance

The sky is falling! Newspapers aren’t going to survive. They’re declaring bankruptcy en masse. The Seattle Post Intelligencer is the latest considering going digital-only, I was told last night at We Media, along with the San Francisco Chronicle. Others already have given up some or all of their print editions. TV networks are bleeding, book […]

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Why don’t they love us more, part 257

More from the “why don’t they love us more” campaign: Jill Abramson, managing editor of The New York Times, appearing on U.S. cable channel MSNBC this week (to promote sales of a new book about the Obama campaign): “It bothers me … to give away this journalism that I more than anyone see immense value […]

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The Future of News? Yes.

The platitudes replay and recycle like a broken record: news is a conversation, it’s networked, it’s all about the crowd, we’ve got to preserve the values, the traditions, the jobs, and above all we need to discover and exploit the fucking hell out of whatever “the” business model turns out to be.

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Podcast: A Conversation with Chris Willis from Footnote

Another podcast!  Whoa! two in one day… WeMedia is producing a regular podcast that features in-depth interviews with prominent media, technology, and social change figures, as well as distinguished experts on current affairs and news.  This is the fourth episode. Our goal is to help the WeMedia community understand the roots of the changes taking […]

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A journalist’s prayer: bailout

Mark I. Pinsky, a former religion reporter for Tribune Co.’s Orlando Sentinel, makes a modest proposal in TNR.com for a government-funded program to hire out-of-work journalists. The historical precedent is the Federal Writers Project, which hired 6,000 writers from 1935 to 1939 – among whom were some rising American literary superstars, including John Steinbeck, John […]

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Game Changers Guest Post: David Dunkley Gyimah

NOTE: We asked each of our 2009 Game Changers Awards finalists to write about their projects, what they’ve learned along the way and what’s next. This essay written by David Dunkley Gyimah at www.viewmagazine.tv. We tell stories. Everything we do is about stories. From the young child skipping home from school, the mother navigating a […]

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Today’s Game Changer Spotlight: David Dunkley Gyimah

URL: http://www.viewmagazine.tv What: David defines the future of professional journalism: immensely visual, built around video and voiceover, with a strong design sensibility, and production skills unmatched by mere mortals. Nominated for: Story telling Rate Here:  David Dunkley Gyimah Beth LaingBeth Laing is the project manager for iFOCOS, which organizes the We Media conferences, awards and […]

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First Look: Spot.Us for Crowd-Funded Journalism

Tired of reading the same old news day in and day out?  Feel like you’re missing out on a great story in your neighborhood – but the newspapers just aren’t covering it?  Imagine a world in which you, an ordinary citizen, could vote (with your money) on which stories get told.  Imagine a whole new […]

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