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We Media | New York | October 5, 2005 Hosted at the Associated Press Headquarters Program | Participants | Sponsors | Blog |
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Okay. It’s my first post here so please offer forgiveness for any shortcomings. Can’t wait for the WeMedia Converence. I’m a journalism professor with an interest in existing media responses to the rapid technological changes. Last year I visit ed every newspaper (24 dailies and 100 or so weeklies) in the state of Mississippi along with every television station with a newsroom. There is a handful of newsrooms making interesting and important changes, but the vast majority of newspapers and TV newsrooms are paralyzed with fear. Fear of failure. Fear of alienating viewers/readers. Fear of what they don’t know. Fear of their economic futures. Most are sitting on the sidelines waiting for a proven model to emerge. What should these newsrooms be doing? That is a question I hope will be addressed. As a teacher, I am fiercely interested in learning what changes need to take place so that I am serving my students while serving good journalism at the same time. I direct our student media center which is beginning its second year as a fully converged/multi-media newsroom. We spent three years planning this thing before starting. It feels like we spend most of our time picking ourselves off our tail ends. Some students embrace the change. Others have revolted and run back to their comfortable corners. Some faculty support us, some don’t understand and some believe we are heading down a wrong path. I’m one of the lucky 15 to be awarded a free ride to WeMedia. Please check out my statement on the WeMedia program page.
Ralph Braseth
I’d suggest you use a different URL in the tag code. It’ll still turn up in Technorati, et al, plus it will provide link love where you want it, not where some random startup wants it. I’d suggest the following HTML instead:
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I’ve been using the technorati tag myself, linking back to technorati’s collection of liked-mindedly tagged pages:
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ps – I’m upstairs at the AP this afternoon. Glad to see the wi-fi is nice and fast; had no problem uploading an 18 meg podcast a little while ago…. -andy