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Duke hosts "next newsroom" gathering for 60
By Bill Densmore
Apr 5, 2008, 22:22

Some 60 journalists and journalism educators gathered at Duke University April 3-4 in Durham, N.C., as the school makes plans to construct an integrated building for housing multimedia campus resources.  The Duke Next Newsroom gathering featured breakout discussions on crowdsourcing, news financing, social networking and skills of the future.

VIDEO: Why aren't U.S. newspapers investing in their future?

Randy Covington spent a career in print reporter and TV news management. Now he heads the IFRA Newsplex, a state-of-the-art training facility at the University of South Carolina. Covington says the users of the facility are mostly not U.S. news organizations. In this five-minute video interview with Bill Densmore of the Media Giraffe Project, he explains why.
(covington@ifra.com) 803-447-6886  / 5 minutes, 32 seconds, 8.72MB

AUDIO: Social networking brainstorming in Durham, N.C.

Listen to a one-hour audio capturing the informal discussion of about 10 people at the Duke Next Newsroom summit in Durham, N.C., on Friday, April 4. This breakout group, led by Kara Andrade of the Maynard Institute, discusses ideas for social-networking tools.  Click on the carat on the left of the bar below to launch streaming audio.
  or download an MP3 podcast for later listening.

AUDIO: What skills does the "next journalist" need?

Listen to a one-hour audio capturing the informal discussion of about 10 people at the Duke Next Newsroom summit in Durham, N.C., on Friday, April 4. In this breakout group, about eight people lead by Sasha Norkin, of the Boston University School of Journalism, discuss the question: "What skills will be needed by the 'next journalist' in the 'next newsroom.'?" Click on the carat on the left of the bar below to launch streaming audio.
  / or download MP3 podcast

AUDIO: Ideas for bringing crowdpower into your newsroom

This is an afternoon session at the Duke Next Newsroom seminar in Durham, N.C. These notes are by Bill Densmore of a breakout called by John Keefe of WNYC radio in New York City. he's talking about "How can we harness the power of crowds in the newsroom?"  There were nine other people in the session and there's an audio podcast you can access from HERE, or you can stream the audio by clicking on the carat of the bar below. There's also an archived videocast of the sessions reached from HERE.

 


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