May 29 2010

The Future of Newspapers Panel, CAJ 140 Characters or less conference

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


May 29 2010

Good Journalism in 140 Characters or More: Annual CAJ conference

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.


May 6 2010

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

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.