Two years ago I wrote about attending an interesting new trans-ocean conversation about media trends called the Future of Media Summit. Held along the Embarcadero in San Francisco, it featured Craig Newmark of craiglist, Chris Anderson talking about his new book The Long Tail, and a number of speakers in Sydney hooked up by an […]
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How citizen journalism is changing political reporting
Citizen reporting threatens the club from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Anyone who has followed the 2008 presidential campaign knows that a few key media flash points have helped shape the narrative of this race. In two of these episodes, the same citizen journalist was at center stage. But the reality of her involvement is far […]
3,500 attend media reform conference
Legendary journalist Bill Moyers electrified an audience of more than 3,500 in Minneapolis Saturday morning calling the media reform movement "the most significant citizens’ movement to emerge in this new century." Here’s the video. Moyers said that the work of activists has "challenged the stranglehold of mega-media corporations over our press" and fostered "alternative and […]
Ballmer: No more newspapers in 10 years
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, predicting the future of media, predicts that all print publications will die within the next decade. He couldn’t be more wrong, but that’s not surprising, given Microsoft’s track record of late. When I worked for Microsoft in 1997-98, I found a lot of Microsofties who didn’t read any print […]
Felten on the Future of News conference
Here’s a quick video I did with Prof. Edward Felten of Princeton University (famed for his opposition to black box voting) about the Future of News conference I’m attending (I’m speaking in a couple of hours, streamed live here). He also mentions his new Center for Information Technology Policy. The video was conducted with my […]