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Alan Bass, John Stackhouse, Kirk LaPointe, David Estok, David Beers

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 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 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:

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!

Download research paper

As always feedback welcome!

C.

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.

I’ve created my top 25 list – I added a few extra people because I couldn’t narrow it down to 20. These are non-group accounts and people that discuss the future of the news at least once a day.

http://twitter.com/caitlinkealey/statuses/9557944081

Hope it’s helpful!

Thanks,
Caitlin

So I’ve actually put up my list of the top 30 because I remain undecided about whether or not I will include Twitter accounts that are either aggregators or group accounts. It is to be a discourse analysis so I’m still working out whether these accounts play an important role in the discussion on the future of the news. They do and they don’t. In terms of sharing information they are invaluable but at the same they don’t necessarily join in the conversation. What do you think?

I’m also hoping that if you think anyone is missing from my list please let me know. I’ve averaged each user’s Klout and Tweetlevel scores. The last column is whether or not the user discusses the future of the news every day or not, if they do not regularly talk about it, I will have to pull them off my list = which is unfortunate because it means that someone like @cshirky will not be on the list. Obviously I will still use his stuff in my thesis but just not as part of my data set.

Please feel free to let me know what you think so far!

Thanks.

***edit: I’m having problems putting the excel table into html so I’ve attached it as a pdf but the names, without the data, are:
@scobleizer (doesn’t talk about media’s future daily so not usable)
@davewiner
@jayrosen_nyu
@jeffjarvis
@mathewi
@cheeky_geeky
@cshirky (doesn’t talk about media’s future daily so not usable)
@journalismnews
@digiphile
@ajkeen
@dangillmor
@jdlasica
@poynter
@themediaisdying
@mediatwit
@journalistics
@yelvington
@knightfdn
@harrisj (doesn’t talk about media’s future daily so can’t use)
@iwantmedia
@stevebuttry
@kirklapointe
@NYT_JenPreston
@thefutureofnews
@digidave
@hermida
@david_a_eaves
@steveouting
@bxmx (doesn’t talk about media’s future daily so can’t use)
@CodyBrown
@howardweaver

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For my thesis I’m trying to crowdsource suggestions to make a list of the top 20 experts who are using Twitter to discuss the future of the news.

In brief, my thesis will look at:

The proliferation of the Internet is challenging mass media’s age-old arrangement of producer and consumer as well as the economic models on which the centuries-old industries have relied. These factors in combination with a worldwide recession and its resultant drop in advertising revenues have caused a crisis in the newspaper industry; a crisis in which they question their long-term survival as a viable news delivery system. This study will apply a discourse analysis to explore how the online debate on the future of the news, and more specifically newspapers, is structured, and will look at what that says about the issue. These conclusions will then be used to build a framework of the major concepts in the current discussion. The purpose of this research is to explore, describe and evaluate the scope of existing discourse in order to arrive at an in-depth understanding of the issues surrounding the debate on the future of news and newspapers.

To do my discourse analysis I am going to to track 20 Twitter accounts for 2 months. So my question to you, helpful readers, is who do you consider to be the most influential, interesting, verbose, engaged/engaging people on Twitter who are discussing the future of the newspaper?

Once I’ve finalized the list I will put it on listerous and make a Twitter list for others to use.

*edit*

Suggestions thus far (thanks all!):

From Leems:
@jeffjarvis
@buzzmachine
@knightfdn

From @memeticbrand:
@wemedia
@the_standard

From @CNWgroup:
@kirklapointe
@mathewi

From @laheadle:
@jayrosen_nyu
@niemanlab
@megangarber
@jny2
@steveouting
@howardweaver
@chanders

From @bxmx:
@david_eaves
@cheeky_geeky
@bxmx