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A-CONFERENCE
MGP teams with Yahoo for April 30-May 3 convening of journalists and technologists
By MGP Staff
Jan 21, 2008, 00:30
Journalism’s ideals meet Silicon Valley’s tools in a three-day, conceptual mashup. The news is now driven by rapidly changing technology. It’s time for journalists to get up to speed, and explain their needs. NewsTools2008 is a flexible, three-day convening that will offer journalists, technologists, entrepreneurs and funders a chance to explore ideas, form partnerships, develop projects, outline systems and businesses for sustaining "journalism that matters."
WHAT TO EXPECT:
· Break-out sessions -- some called in advance, some on the fly -- to update, exchange and build.
· Share insights on how the concept and practice of journalism must adapt to search and social networks, crowdsourcing, diverse, fragmented audiences and digital, participatory politics.
· Explore business models, management practices, audiences/communities, journalism approaches and ethical guidelines enabled by the new technologies.
· Cross-silo exchanges that open channels . . . create alliances . . . frameworks . . . deploy technologies . . . and establish or re-engineer organizations for producing “news that matters.”
· Current-awareness briefings on the 5-10 technologies most likely to disrupt – and reinvent – journalism, news . . . democracy.
· An upate on "JTM-Next Newsroom" and other projects
· News about the latest experiments in non-profit and citizen journalism and the technologies they need.
· JournaTech Expo -- Companies, organizations and individuals show and discuss their ideas, products and services during a half-day expo on Saturday, May 3. Co-organized by Northern California Society of Professional Journalists.
As of Feb. 15, NewsTools2008 gets underway for registered participants with pre-event online collaboration . . . includes the three-day convening April 30-May 3 . . . and follow-up study of post-event applications.
NewsTools2008 is hosted by the Journalism That Matters Collaborative, the Media Giraffe Project at the University of Massachusetts, the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), Yahoo! Inc. and is supported in part by the Roy S. Park Foundation and other donors.
· New Journalism Platform Entrepreneurs: Tool builders for journalists, citizens and communities to do journalism processes
· The Tech Community: Programmers, user -experience experts, social-network innovators, web 2.0 entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and angel investors
· Civic activists, alt-media practitioners, journalism reformers
· “New Media Pioneers”: Heavy users of Web 2.0 for journalistic purposes, The “Pro-Am’s”, vloggers, news-blog writers, (+ more)
· “Traditional” Journalists: editors, publishers, new-media managers
LIKELY INQUIRY/ACTION:
· Strip away the legacy platforms and processes and ask: What remains of journalism that is needed to support participatory democracy and community?
· Spend an afternoon and evening on April 30 describing those core values and elements. Then join two more days of discussion -- and practical design/build workshops -- with technologists.
· Tap Silicon Valley's best tools -- off the shelf and invented on-the-fly -- to put journalism's values and elements in practice in new ways.
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