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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!
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.
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:
*drum roll please* Top 20 Twitter commentators on the future of the news
Feb 5th
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
Does Twitter create a daily me or a daily we?
Jan 14th
Does Twitter Create a Daily Me or a Daily We
Here is a copy of a research paper I wrote for my directed study last semester – this is my first time opening up my scholarly work to anyone outside of my profs, friends and parents so please be somewhat gentle. That’s not to say that I don’t want your impressions and ideas – far from it – I’d love to hear what you think about my arguments, how you think I can improve the existing arguments, what you think I was crazy for leaving out etc … just try not to make me cry! 
And of course I didn’t write this without help – thanks to my stable of editors/tormentors: Ellen, Mom, Dad, Dave and Steve! It wouldn’t be anywhere near as lucid without you guys!
Thanks,
Caitlin