Al Gore Addresses We Media Originally uploaded by MC We Media. Al Gore addresses The Media Center’s We Media conference at AP headquarters in NY. To download the 48-minute, 20 MB MP3 of the speech, click here. Photo by Richard Drew – AP Here is the text of former Vice President Al Gore’s remarks at […]

The next question I hear coming from moderator Jason Calcanis is how do you make citizen media a viable business. But first, a segue into  what would Andrew Heyward do if he had more choices? He says he’d love new media, but the trade off for working in Big Media is larger audience and impact. […]

Al Gore suggested that the good old days of media were when newspapers ruled. Craig Forman of Yahoo! notes this.Television in the early days, few networks, one-way information transmission, did not require much knowledge on the part of the viewer/consumer. Gore lauds the pre-television glory days of print, and there is some truth in that. […]

Al is talking about the systemic decay of the public forum; for instance, the rejection and dismissal of science. All this strikes Gore as "strange." He wants to recreate a meritocracy of the marketplace of ideas to stimulate more diversity of viewpoints. Many in the audience, he says, are doing this: a better informed American […]

Wow (again)! Al Gore is five feet away from me; Tipper Gore is six feet to my right. But enough about logistics … Al says: Thirty second television commercials are the only thing that matters in political discourse today. … There was a time when our political discourse was more vivid and clear and rested […]

Al Gore and Andrew Nachison at We Media in New York Originally uploaded by MC We Media. Current TV Chairman and former Vice President Al Gore, or as he put it in his keynote, "The former next president of the United States" poses with Media Center Director Andrew Nachison prior to his keynote address at […]

Well, was this fun or what? Our assignment during the break: To meet someone at another table in this very crowded room, exchange business cards, and network — make a connection. I met William H. Wilson, managing editor of the Elkhart (Ind.) Truth, which was kinda cool since I once worked at the South Bend […]

Question – It seems that a lot of the people we are involving are already our core audience. How are we going to include more people into the conversation? Kramer said that the most important thing we can do is to keep explaining stories better and better by listening to the public. Getting people engaged […]

Brown used the example of the NYT referring to the recent job cuts and asking how newsrooms are going to embrace the cultural change. Sambrook followed by saying the BBC is in the middle of a reorganization, a reprioritization of the digital on-demand envriornment. It’s a complete revamping to the whole organization. For many of […]

Merrill asks the panel how they will bring in citizen voice, citizen ideas. Sambrook says it a vast and critical move in big media. He notes that the BBC relied on citizen voices during the bombing. His answer, though, is much more than that. It’s about how to teach and learn how to change professional […]