The future is not black and white
Newspapers, innovation and technology
100 years of solitude … I mean of Le Devoir: Panel debates next 100 years of news
Jun 3rd
I attended one final panel before I hopped on Via Rail (WITHOUT WIFI – GRRRR) and came back to Ottawa. Congress 2010 was a strange experience for me as I have worked six of them running the media and communications for Fedcan but have never actually attended much of anything. The stress level is much less painful as an attendee for sure!
I stole this straight from the Congress program:
The Futures of News and Journalism in the Internet and Mobile Age
Michel Venne, Concordia University.
On the occasion of Montreal Le Devoir’s 100th anniversary in 2010, four distinguished international panelists working within various news entities such as print media, web-based broadcasting, and participatory internet news forums, join Le Devoir Director, Bernard Descôteaux to reflect on the future of media in the internet and mobile age, and the current state of news reporting and journalism. This distinguished panel will also include Reisa Levine (the Producer of CitizenShift), Amy Mitchell (the Deputy Director of the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism), Pascal Riché (Editor of Rue89), and Geraldine Cahill (a Toronto-based journalist previously with The Real News Network).
This animated event on the future of media in light of massive technological changes. will be moderated by Michel Venne, former deputy editor at Le Devoir and founder and Executive Director of the Institut du Nouveau Monde, a Montreal-based non-partisan organisation aimed at civic participation and renewal of ideas in Québec.
And in case you want to see the video too … I will post a link to the video when I find it – Fedcan/Concordia Ustreamed it so it must be floating around on the interrwebz somewhere!
My first academic presentation
Jun 2nd
So I spent weeks worrying about my coming out as an academic for no real reason. There were 10 whole people in the room and that includes four panelists and one chair. I guess that’s what happens when you are the first session on a rainy day, on the first day of a conference that everyone has to take a bus to get to. That being said, it went well as far as I could tell and it was a fairly painless process. My fellow panelists were fairly interesting and all except me were presenting the final results of their MAs.
My presentation was entitled “All the News that’s Fit to Tweet” but after googling it I realize I must change the title. Stay tuned for an updated title.
Let me know what you think!
C.
Cca presentation
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How Digital Media is Transforming Society, @plevy and IEML
Jun 2nd
My supervisor Pierre Levy was a panelist on the Canada Research Chair panel at Congress 2010. I recorded his talk – tried to get the other two but my livescribe’s battery died. My bad.
The Future of Newspapers Panel, CAJ 140 Characters or less conference
May 29th
Alan Bass, John Stackhouse, Kirk LaPointe, David Estok, David Beers
Good Journalism in 140 Characters or More: Annual CAJ conference
May 29th
The annual Canadian Association of Journalists meeting is happening right now in Montreal at the Grand Plaza hotel. This is my first time attending and I really enjoyed Rob Curley’s keynote yesterday morning – I tweeted a great deal of the highlights if you want to read the blow by blow. The Las Vegas Sun is doing some really interesting stuff. Below is the audio from the session – the audio can be slow to load so be patient!
Online journalism panel – You Can’t Fight the Future with Kirk Lapointe of the Vancouver Sun, Greg Horn (Kahnawakenews.com, David Beers of The Tyee
Ottawa’s Information Lockdown and What Journalists Should DO About it with Rob Russ, CP, Kady O’Malley, CBC Ottawa and Pierre Duchesne, Radio-Canada – please note the stars I’ve drawn are book marks in the audio if you want to move around the recording.
Day two of the Reinventing Canadian Media audio and notes
May 19th
Day two at the Westin is trucking along. Here are two of the panels – the third is taking place right now and I will update once it’s done.
The first panel was “Business sustainability: who will provide quality content and how?”. It featured Robert Picard, who is the Director of Media Management and Transformation Centre at a University in Sweden as well as a Fellow of the Reuters Institute, University of Oxford and Dr. Fred Fletcher, UBC Grad School of Journalism and Canadian Media Research Consortium. The panel was moderated by Ottawa’s own Carleton University prof, Christopher Waddell.
The second panel discussion was the “Role and relevance of national cultural policymakers and regulators in a borderless world” – any star is a bookmark and you can download it. Panelists were Sheridan Scott, Bennett Jones LLP, Richard French, CN Tellier Prof of Business and Public Policy at the University of Ottawa, and Peter Menzies, Commissioner, Alberta and Northwest Territories, Canadian Radio and Television and Telecommunications Commission, all of whom were moderated by Mary Lou Finlay of CBC fame.
The third panel of the day was moderated by the very talented and lovely Jennifer Corriero from Taking IT Global (who tried to get me to be a big brave girl and ask a question but I couldn’t bring myself to face the microphone), and she was in charge of the discussion entitled “Alternative content production and distribution models” which was gave the audience a good view into The Tyee through its Founding editor, David Beers, Tou.tv by Executive Director of Internet and Digital Services, Genevieve Rossier and Donna Logan who is President of the Canadian Media Research Consortium. Again, each star is a bookmark so that you can fast forward through the talks.
Andrew Potter gives a reflection/summary of the two day symposium:
Jeff Jarvis does Ottawa
May 18th
Jeff Jarvis spoke tonight to a group of 150 people here in Ottawa about “Why global media are in crisis and what to do about it” at the Public Policy Forum’s event: Reinventing Canadian Media. Here is an embedded file of my notes and the audio. It takes a while to load, so please be patient!
David Mitchell, president of the PPF and David Walden, Secretary-General, Canadian Commission for UNESCO did the introductions:
All the news that’s fit to Tweet: Using the microblogging platform Twitter to conduct a discourse analysis of experts discussing the future of newspapers
May 6th
This is the version of the paper I just submitted to the CCA for my talk on June 1. I’m going to be re-working it for the actual presentation – both because it’s too long for my ten minutes and because I’m hoping to have more data analysis done by then!
As always feedback welcome!
C.
The New Media Ecosystem – David Akin
Apr 20th
Canwest’s Parliament Hill reporter David Akin (@davidakin) spoke to a room full of PR and Communication professionals today during a CNW event called The New Media Ecosystem. I livescribed it and as per usual please be patient – the audio load time is a bit brutal.
Research challenges
Apr 19th
I haven’t posted in a while – I’ve been busy trying to figure out ways to conqueror my insane amount of data (as well as quite possibly repeatedly banging my head off my desk). For my discourse analysis on the future of newspapers, I was going to use the tweets of the top media experts including the first level links that they tweeted (including comments where available).
Sounds big but manageable, maybe!? Well … the original data set is over 18,000 tweets from 25 people over a two month span. I always knew I was going to narrow that down to the top 20 experts but that still leaves me with 16,000-odd tweets. After having several mini-strokes and maybe a few drinks I went to see one of my committee members who quite rightly pointed out that it just wasn’t doable by hand. He smiled and knowingly said “Get Nvivo”.
Nvivo is a qualitative data analysis software that is apparently going to make my life easier but thus far I’ve found out that it won’t run on my mac, costs $200 and is only installed on four machines on the entire University of Ottawa campus. Nonetheless, I’ve recalled all the books from the library on the program and have set out to try and figure out how to parse my data into the program. Thus far I have had no luck. I am desperately hoping to find someone who actually knows how to use the program!
So yeah, if you know Nvivo and want my undying love (or some reasonable facsimile) please let me know!