Newspapers, innovation and technology
Archive for May, 2010
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.