Via Boss Jarvis
Here, at last, is a full description of the Networked Journalism Summit we’ve been organizing at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. I’m really excited about the event: a great list of people participating, many best practices and lessons to share, lots of possibility for new efforts to come out of the meeting:
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The Networked Journalism Summit bringing together the best practices and practitioners in collaborative, pro-am journalism â?? will be held on Oct. 10 at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism, thanks to a grant from the MacArthur Foundation.
This is a day about action: next steps, new projects, new partnerships, new experiments. The first two-thirds of the day will be
devoted to sharing lessons, ideas, and plans with a representative sample of different kinds of efforts, hyperlocal to national to
international, with participants from big and small media, from editorial and business, from the U.S., Canada, the U.K, Germany, and France. The last third of the day will be devoted to what’s next, with participants meeting to come up with new collaborations.
What makes this meeting different? We hope this does: (read below the click)
- * It’s about action and next steps, not talk.
- * The panel discussions will be discussions, not presentations. Every session will start with very brief introductions and then go immediately to discussion from the entire room.
- * This is made possible by write-ups of the work being done by everyone in the room that will be distributed before the meeting. David Cohn (THAT’S ME!!!) is reporting some of these (and they are beginning to appear on this
blog); the participants will submit more. This will give everyone a headstart and lets them get right to their questions. You can read these starting now at the summit blog. - * We will followup on the actions pledged by the participants with reports on progress that will be shared on this blog.
- * No MSM-bashing or blog-bashing allowed. We’ll gong it off. This is about working together. The snarking is over.
We hope people leave with a lot of new information and inspiration, with new partners, and with new steps to take to spread journalism in their communities.
The premise of all this is that even as journalistic organizations may shrink, along with their revenue bases, journalism itself can and must expand and it will do that through collaborative work. The internet makes that collaboration possible and we’ve barely begun to explore the opportunities it affords.
A year or two ago, the point of such a meeting might have been evangelizing this idea. But in that time, a number of great projects in collaborative, networked journalism have taken off. So now is the time to share the lessons’ success and
failures from these efforts and to determine what’s needed to move on to the next goals. By bringing together about 150 practitioners from all sides, we hope that the meeting itself can spark new partnerships
and projects.
Among the sessions planned:
* Sharing experience from hyperlocal projects.
* Early efforts to make money at this: ad networks, print publications (ironically), independent businesses.
* International efforts from the UK and Germany.
* Reports from visible projects, including Gannett’s reorganization of
its newsrooms around citizen participation, Jay Rosen’s experience with
NewAssignment.net, and Now Public.
* Video and broadcast projects.
* Projects built around data as news.
* New tools.
* Political efforts.
In the afternoon, the participants will split into groups: local east or west, national, business, multimedia, revenue, tools, and other groups that form at the meeting to pledge next steps. After reporting back to the meeting as a whole on these promised efforts, all will be rewarded with wine.
We have a great cross-section of different kinds of efforts, different models, and different locales. There is room for a few more.
If you are interested in attending, please email David Cohn, who has been doing a great job organizing the conference and the information around it: dcohn1 at gmail dot com.
The meeting will begin at the auditorium in the new New York Times headquarters on 40th Street and 8th Avenue in New York. It will then move next door to the new CUNY Graduate School of Journalism at 219 W. 40th Street, New York.
This meeting is made possible entirely through a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The summit is organized by Jeff Jarvis, who heads the interactive journalism program at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and blogs on journalism and media at Buzzmachine.com. The school has just begun its second year as the only publicly supported school of journalism in the Northeast.
The next meeting at CUNY, early next year, will focus on new business models for news.