Ijust got back from an afternoon in the Valley where I appeared at SD Forum: The Business of New Media on a panel about citizen journalism and citizen media. It was actually more interesting and provocative than most panels on the topic. (It was videotaped, so I’ll post a link when it goes online.)
Some highlights:
Mark Pincus, saying that Knight Ridder should have offered a billion dollars to buy Craigslist. And saying, "The sooner the Washington Post and New York Times die, the better." (I took issue with Mark.) He later amended that to say he was talking about their business models.
Leonard Brody of NowPublic: "Journalists are becoming more important than they ever have been," because reporters (both the pros and trained amateurs) have the skills to report about the important issues affecting society.
Dan Gillmor of the Center for Citizen Media about the public taking on a larger responsbility as media creators and consumers: "It’s about being knowledgeably skeptical and needing to know how to do original reporting. … A fundamental skepticism will be the first principle of citizen media in the future."
JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.
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