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Archive for June, 2010
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!
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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.