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A-CONFERENCE
Click HERE for online registration. (attendance limited)
Check in 4p.m.-6 p.m., Wed., June 28 / 7 a.m.-8:30 a.m. Thurs., June 29
Program ends at 9:30 p.m. on Thursday but participants are invited to continue on Friday and Saturday with any other tracks, including the unique, "Journalism That Matters" seminar.
Journalism is no longer a profession or a craft -- it is being taken over by citizens, who are now driving its form and influence at thousands of independent websites covering communities, politics and niche topics.
Through Socratic dialog, moderated discussions and plenty of informal conversation breaks, we'll dissect the impact of this change on participatory democracy from the perspectives of four participating groups -- mainstream journalists, political insiders and public-policy theorists, educators and info-technologists. After this Day 1 participatory think tank (Thurs., Jun. 29), leaders of each of these four constituencies will "seed" the general conference sessions on Friday and Saturday.
Our focus is on how the practice and definition of journalism is being forced by technology and business-model collapse to change. What are emerging as substute forms of journalism? How may they be independently sustained? How is participatory democracy affected? When everyone a potential journalist, is knowledge of journalism practice and theory now an essential requirement for any liberal-arts degree?
We're bringing together educators, traditional journalists, "citizen journalists", political and public-policy and some business-school/business strategy types (and some media reformers and critics) to cross-pollenate ideas. We aim to uncover, or hatch, new ideas for sustaining journalism -- or new ideas for a more economical journalism. Either must engage the public and preserve independent watchdogging of government and major institutions. Or else we need to postulate how democracy can survive without an independent and responsible press balancing government and private power.
Click HERE for online registration.
ROUNDTABLE SUMMIT PROGRAM
(as of May 21, 2006 -- subject to change)
The conference begins with a TRACK ONE “Future of Journalism Roundtable Summit” convening Wednesday evening, June 28, with sessions all day Thurs., Jun. 29. TRACKS 2-5 cover citizen media, politics and the Internet, educating smart media consumers and the effect of technology and multimedia on journalism. Registration for the Thursday summit includes the right to attend Friday and Saturday sessions, too, and the "Journalism That Matters," seminar.
TRACK ONE – Roundtable Summit
TO REGISTER: http://www.mediagiraffe.org/register/
HIGHTLIGHTS: http://www.mediagiraffe.org/highlights/
LAST MINUTE PROGRAM CHANGES: http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Program_changes
Preliminary program as of June 20, 2006 / subject to change
The speakers, conveners, and session topics are tentative and are subject to change without notice. Check this page (http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Program_changes) for updates.
TRACK ONE – Roundtable Summit
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
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4 p.m.-6:30 p.m. |
Check-in for participants in “Future of Journalism Roundtable Summit”
(Campus Center Hotel, 10th floor)
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5:00 p.m. –6:00 p.m.
Campus Center Reading Room |
Reading and book signing by Helen Thomas, Hearst Newspapers White House columnist, author of the forthcoming, “Watchdogs of Democracy? The Waning Washington Press Corps and How It Has Failed the Public. Free and open to the public.
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5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. |
Informal reception for Summit participants, Campus Center
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6:30 p.m.9:45 p.m.
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Dinner, speakers, and discussion / Campus Center , CC Auditorium.
INTRODUCTIONS -- Janet Rifkin, dean, UMass College of Social and Behavioral Sciences; Karen List, journalism director, UMass; Norman Sims, journalism professor; Bill Densmore MGP director.
TALK – Helen Thomas, Hearst newspapers columnist --
DISCUSSION: “How will journalism stay relevant? To whom? In what forms?”
CONVENERS: Vin Crosbie, Corante Media Hub, Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine and CUNY. DISCUSSANTS: Marty Baron, editor, The Boston Globe; Teresa Hanafin, editor, Boston.com; Larry McDermott, publisher The Republican, Springfield, Mass; Ellen Hume, UMass-Boston; Peter Bhatia, Portland Oregonian; Helen Thomas, White House columnist, Hearst Newspapers, Jay Rosen, New York University/PressThink.com Search engines show blog reports get more hits on a given topic than a New York Times story. Is the traditional practice of journalism becoming a niche? Or moving toward irrelevance? Or is journalism simply in need of redefinition and retooling? Once a profession, or a craft, is journalism now a toolset all citizens need to know? How do they learn? A town meeting discussion.
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Thursday, June 29, 2006 – One-day Future of Journalism Roundtable Summit
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7:00 a.m.-8:00 a.m. |
Continental breakfast for “Future of Journalism Roundtable Summit” participants. |
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7:30 a.m.-8:30 a.m. |
Check-in for participants in TRACK ONE: “Future of Journalism Roundtable Summit”
(location: Campus Center Concourse Lower Level at escalators.) |
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8:00 a.m.-8:15 a.m. |
Two-minute introductions -- Rob Williams/Colin Rhinesmith (education), Norman Sims / Bill Densmore (journalism/citizen journalism), Aldon Hynes/ Ellen Hume (politics), and Steve Garfield/Tish Grier (multimedia technology)
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8:15 a.m.-9 :15 a.m.
CC163C |
OPENING TALK: “Innovate, Die Or Be Sold: A Prescription for the News Company of the Future,” by Stephen Gray, executive director, Newspaper Next initiative of the American Press Institute.
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9:15 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
CC101 |
Session ONE: “Finding a New Definition Of Journalism”
CONVENERS: Tom Rosenstiel, Project on Excellence in Journalism; Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine.com; DISCUSSANTS: Jon Donley, editor, NOLA.com; Helen Thomas, Hearst Newspapers; Amy Eisman, American University; Josh Wilson, NewsDesk.org; Chris Peck, Memphis Commercial Appeal; Chris Daly, Boston University., Robin “Roblimo” Miller, SlashDot.com.
How do you define journalism when every blogger can have a worldwide audience? Are today’s journalists like yesterday’s pamphleteers? A discussion among a journalism-industry think-tank expert, a veteran daily editor, two media educators, a White House columnist, two web-journalism veterans – and summit participants.
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10:45 a.m.-11:00 a.m. |
Media Café break -- VIDEO: “Public Insight Journalism” – CC Reading Room
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10:45 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
CC101 |
SPECIAL: How Katrina changed the news ecology
A DISCUSSION: with Jon Donley, editor, NOLA. Com and Cooper Monroe, BeenThereClearingHouse.com. The editor of New Orlean’s premier news website and the Pittsburgh-based partner in a volunteer Katrina relief blog share perspectives on how the Internet has changed coverage of major news events.
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11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
CC163C |
Session TWO: “Quality: How Do You Measure It?”
CONVENER: Fabrice Florin, Newstrust.net. DISCUSSANTS: John McManus, Grade the News; Jeffrey Fox, ConsumerPower.org; Peter Phillips, Project Censored; Philip Meyer, Univ. of North Carolina.
If finding news on the web is getting easier, the proliferation of news sites is presenting a new challenge – how to judge quality. NewsTrust is a new effort to address the problem. Executive director Fabrice Florin will describe and demonstrate the project, then respond to constructive criticism from four experts at judging news quality.
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12:15 p.m.-12:30 p.m. |
Room/phone/Media Café break
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12:30 p.m.-1:45 p.m.
CC CC Auditorium
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Lunch, Campus Center (or ballroom)
Lunch Forum: “When the Press Becomes a Pipe, Who Controls?”
Co-speakers: Mark Cooper, Consumer Federation of America; Casey Lide, Baller Herbst Law Group; Steve Anderson, COA News; Cable and phone giants want to create tiers of service for delivering content on the Internet, upsetting the concept of “network neutrality.” Legal, technical and First Amendment experts will invite summit collaborators to help define the lines between commercial rights and free-speech obligations, and how municipal ownership of “pipes” could help.
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1:45 p.m.-2:00 p.m. |
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2 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
CC101 |
Session THREE: “Can Free Media Sustain Democracy?”
CONVENERS: Peter Krasilovsky, Krasilovsky Consulting; Charles Lewis, Center for Public Integrity; David Beers, The Tyee; John Byrne, RawStory.com; Staci Kramer, PaidContent.org; Barry Parr, Coastsider.com. While print-newspaper circulation slowly declines, online newspapers are experiencing a Renaissance, reaching new peaks in readership nearly every month. How long will it take before that readership translates to revenue large enough to sustain great, watchdog journalism? Will web advertising alone support today’s newsrooms? Is that an issue for democracy? And what sort of platform for public debate will emerge? What other funding options are possible? How do you sell sponsorships and advertising,how much do you charge, and what do you promise in return? What makes a community site truly sustainable, and what kinds of "compromises" must be made to get there?
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3:45 p.m.-4 p.m. |
Media Café break
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4 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
CC Reading Room |
Session FOUR: “Immigrant and Ethnic Markets: Once Below the Radar; Now a Coveted Revenue Source. Who Should Own the Market?”
CONVENERS: Ellen Hume, UMass Boston; Jerry Villacres, Ethnic Media Project of Boston; Sandy Close, New California Media .
Small newspapers, radio and TV for immigrants were overlooked by mainstream media. Now these niche audiences are coveted by MSM. How is the web changing the news experience for immigrants and ethnic populations? What impact does the “digital divide” have?
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5:15 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
CC101 |
Media – “Can old media be part of the new news ecology?
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5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
Herter Hall Videoconferencing Center
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SPECIAL EVENT – (tentative) “The Philadelphia Experiments”
For the first time in decades, major U.S. metropolitan newspapers are be sold by a chain to local owners . At the same time, a working group of citizens in the city where American independence sprang are considering what the next news organization will look like. An effort to set up a live videoconference between Amherst and Philadelphia is planned.
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6:30 p.m.-7:15 p.m. |
Reception for all conference attendees (including Friday sessions)
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7:15 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Dinner
8:15 p.m. – Discussion starts (buffet desserts, coffee and tea).
9;45 p.m. – Discussion ends.
CC Auditorium;
CC |
Dinner-and-discussion: “Can Ownership Make a Difference?”
CONVENERS: Vin Crosbie, Corante Media Hub., Jay Rosen, New York University. DISCUSSSANTS: Rick Edmonds, The Poynter Institute; Richard Anderson, VillageSoup.com; Paul Bass, New Haven Independent; Dave Johnson, Atwater [Wis.] Sunfish Gazette (tentative); Joseph McQuaid, New Hampshire Union Leader; Dave Carlson, Univ. of Florida/SPJ; Christopher Mackin, Ownership Associates.
What do reformers really mean by the term “corporate media”? Do forms of ownership make a difference? A dessert-and-discussion town meeting session with corporate governance, family ownership and non-profit experts unpacking assumptions about this issue.
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Friday, June 30, 2006
Special Event – TRACK ONE OPTIONAL DAY 2
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9:30 a.m.-5:45 p.m.
CC Room 101 |
A special seminar for working journalists and other stakeholders. Roll up your sleeves and create experiments in journalism and community storytelling, explore new economic models, journalism as a conversation, teaching and learning, as well as changing leadership in the newsroom and the community. |
Friday, June 30, 2006
Tracks TWO – FIVE
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7:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m. |
Conference check-in, Campus Center Concourse level
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7:00 a.m.-8 a.m. |
Continental breakfast for summit participants
(Campus Center lower concourse)
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8 a.m.- 9:15 a.m.
GENERAL SESSION
CC Reading Room |
Report from Thursday’s summit:
“Setting the scene: What’s the future of the web and news?”
CONVENERS: Dale Peskin, The Media Center at API; Lee Rainie, the Pew Project on Internet & Society; Tom Rosenstiel, Project on Excellence in Journalism.
A news-industry futurist, , an Internet demographics researcher and a key observer and facilitator of online multimedia news trends forecast the next year and the next decades for the Fourth Estate. How should media executives, citizen journalists, political strategists / public officials, educators and technologist prepare and collaborate?
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9:15 a.m.-9:30 a.m. |
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9:30 a.m.-10:15 a.m.
TRACK TWO
CC163-C |
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12:15 p.m.-12:30 p.m. |
Media Café break
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12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
CC
CC Auditorium |
Buffet lunch (CC Auditorium or Campus Center Ballroom)
“Is Media Performance Democracy’s Critical Issue?”
Thirty years ago, if your policy message was on the three networks, The New York Times or the Washington Post, it spread quickly across America. We are now in an era of micr0-media – blogs, email, dozens of networks and cable channels, multimedia chaos and creativity. Political strategists who disagree on issues often agree that media structure and performance is now their No. 2 issue. Has the state of our media become the most important threat to participatory democracy? Why?
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2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
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Technology – “News a la Carte – Fracturing The Public Sphere?”
CONVENERS: Holmes Wilson, Participatory Culture Foundation; Thomas Marban, PopUrls.com; Jonathan Dube, CBC.CA (pending).
Consumers can now paste together their version of a news event from multiple sources in seconds. What’s the impact of news a la carte on understanding and what new technologies feed this trend? How does it fracture the public sphere – or enrich it?
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3:30 p.m.-4:15 p.m. |
Media Café and free ice cream social, courtesy of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc.
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5:30 p.m.-5:45 p.m. |
Media Café -- networking / discussion
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5:45 p.m.-6:30 p.m. |
Campus Center Reading Room – reception and hor d’oeuvres for all attendees. (Spill out into CC Concourse)
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Dinner and discussion, CC Auditorium, Campus Center
SPEAKER: Dr. Rob Williams, president, Action Coalition for Media Education; professor, Champlain College, Burlington, Vermont: “Why Doesn’t Johnny Care? How Media Can Bring Young Adults Back Into The Public Sphere?”
Young adults have abandoned the news as presented in traditional forms. Newspaper and TV users are aging. But they are heavy media consumers. What will put public affairs back into their diet? And why does it matter?
DISCUSSANTS: Andrea Frantz, Wilkes University; Melissa Krodman, Project Think Different; Mark Lopez, CIRCLE .
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9:30 p.m.-11:00 p.m.
Campus Center
CC Auditorium |
Media Café Extra: “War Stories – Avoiding Other’s Mistakes”
An informal session for all participants able to share “war stories” from the trenches of citizen journalism. What has been your worst experience? Share your nightmares and tales of woe over beer, wine or whatever.
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Saturday, July 1, 2006
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7:30 a.m.-8:30 a.m. |
Continental breakfast for summit participants ( Campus Center Lower Level Concourse)
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8:30 a.m.-9:45 a.m.
TRACK FIVE
CC Reading Room
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Technology: “Merging Forms: Is the Medium Still the Message?”
CONVENERS: Steve Garfield, Rocketboom.com; Paul Grabowicz, University of California Berkeley; Robb Montgomery, VisualEditors.com
Blogging… reporters who pack a camera, MP3 recorder and a notepad … 24/7 deadlines …is journalism using technology or the other way around? As the information fire hose reaches full pressure, is wisdom increasing too.
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10:00 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
(same rooms as
earlier sessions)
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Media Café collaboration and Track meet-ups for “next step” ideas:
Topic ideas:
POLITICS: Pitching the big tent
TECHNOLOGY: Making adoption easy
CITIZEN MEDIA: Inviting participation
EDUCATION: Making media cool
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11:15 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
CLOSING SESSION
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“What Did We Learn/What’s Next” -- Reports from track managers or designees
Closing Talk: “Keeping Participatory Democracy Alive: Talking Across The Divides Of Media, Politics, Education And Technology.”
CONVENERS: Norman Sims, UMass Amherst and principal investigator, Media Giraffe Project; Bill Densmore, director/editor.
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12:45 p.m.
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Conference Ends |
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1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Independent meet-ups and outdoor bootcamps |
POST-CONFERENCE MEET-UPS:
Independent groups with membership at the conference hold planning or strategy sessions in rooms provided at no additional charge by the Media Giraffe Project and UMass Amherst.
MUSEUMS 10 – at WikiPedia /
ACTIVITIES/TRIPS: (LINK: Amherst area)
INDIVIDUAL LINKS:
Hiking: Mount Toby, the Norwottuck Trail
Rafting on the Deerfield River (Charlemont, Mass.)
Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art (Amherst, Mass.)
Historic Deerfield or Yankee Candle (South Deerfield, Mass.)
Amherst College Mead Art Museum (Amherst)
Amherst College Museum of Natural History
Smith College Museum of Art (Northampton)
National Yiddish Book Center (South Amherst)
Emily Dickens House Museum (Amherst)
Official NBA Basketball Hall of Fame (Springfield, Mass.)
Mass. Museum of Contemporary Art (North Adams, Mass.)
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Saturday evening |
Events in the Five College Area:
Tanglewood (BSO-Lenox, Mass. –Garrison Keillor / Prairie Home Companion Live, 5:45 p.m., Sat., July 1)
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