June 29 Meeting Notes

NEXT MEETING TIME

Wednesday, July 15, 2:30pm PT

Location:  Center for Ethical Leadership, 1401 E Jefferson, St., Seattle

Note:  we are considering setting up an every other week meeting at this time.  Please weigh in if this doesn’t work for you.



**** TO DO’s -- a  request of everyone ****

Please review and comment on/edit the draft invitation:

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ang48jcjwf8_2pm6z67cz&hl=en

 
Other follow-up:
Mike – continue investigating University of Oregon connection
 
Jonathan - check on City Hall/ Nick Licata as a backup space
 
Stephen - check with Margo Gordon/ Dave Messerschmidt about Evans School co-sponsorship at the UW

Stephen - contact Gary Gibson What about getting Seattle Channel involved
Mike, Stephen, Anne, and Jonathan - continue working funding possibilities (see list below)


NEXT AGENDA

*  Status of space/date

*  Funding update

*  Invitation

*  Outreach

 
MEETING SUMMARY
 
Present: Jonathan Lawson, Mike Fancher, Stephen Silha, Peggy Holman
 
Space and Date
The University of Washington is interested in partnering with us.  Following this meeting, Peggy and Stephen met with Roger Simpson, Mike met with David Domke.  The upshot is that they want to work with us.  We’re now looking for a date during fall quarter and hope to have one identified by the time we meet again.
 
Mike spoke to his contact at the University of Oregon about co-locating the conference.  There is apparently something similar already in the works.  He is investigating what this is to determine if there’s any synergy.  So far, he hasn’t uncovered anything; just interest in what we’re doing.
 
Our bias is to stay local, inviting people from Oregon and BC with the idea of doing something in those locations down the road.
 
Funding Update
Mike, Jonathan, and Stephen followed up on their leads from last week.  These conversations are in progress.  No funds are committed yet.
 
We discussed the need for a stripped down budget.  The attached revision reduces the registration fee, removes all food costs, and lowers payment to Stephen and Peggy.  It requires no outside funds to work.

 
Invitation
Jonathan drafted an invitation and revised it based on our feedback.  It is ready for comment/editing from any of you.  See
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ang48jcjwf8_2pm6z67cz&hl=en

 
MEETING DETAILS
 
(From Stephen’s notes)
Agenda:  Status of space/date; funding update; Invitation
 
1)  Space
 Roger Simpson at the UW has indicated a desire to work with us.
“Reasonable portions of HUB ballroom available 24, 25, and 27.”
 
What about 26th?
 
Dec 11 – Jan 4 is winter break.
 
What about having it during school year?  Peggy and Stephen will talk to Roger.
 
Possibility of White Stag building at / Univ of Oregon?  Mike will find out about that.
 
Simpson Center for the Humanities?
 
Jonathan will check on City Hall/ Nick Licata
 
Stephen will check with Margo Gordon/ Dave Messerschmidt about Evans School co-sponsorship.
 
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2)  Funding.
 
Jonathan sent e-mail to Marty.  Outlined issues & draft budget.  Asked for meeting.
 
Glaser interested in media for social change.
 
Stephen has not spoken with Martha Kongsgaard because of health crisis in her family.
Has e-mailed Cyrus Krohn.
Google – Rebecca.
 
Possible Seattle Foundation / Knight Foundation funding? – If the Seattle Foundation funded us, Knight might match it.
 
Roger Oglesby? Via Ken Bunting or Monica Guzman.
Jonathan has jury duty Wednesday.
 
McKenzie ?
 
Soros --  ?  Bill Densmore.
 
Anne will contact Harriett Bullitt and Alan and Andrea Rabinowitz when there’s a date.
 
Could we do a stripped down budget -- ??  Peggy will work on that.
 
3)  Invitation.
 
Jonathan presented a new draft:
Journalism That Matters:
 
Re-imagining a Regional Journalism Ecology
Seattle, [dates]
 
How can quality journalism support the civic and cultural health of a region?
 
What kind of news ecology do we need to cultivate to sustain the kind of journalism that best serves our community?
 
In traditional print and broadcast media, old economic models and distribution systems are seemingly on their way to extinction. Meanwhile, new media and communications platforms are proliferating like crazy.
 
As new technologies allow us to reinvent how we communicate with each other, economic, political and cultural shifts are changing how we all engage with journalism.
Beyond the noise of already-tired "old media vs. new media" arguments lurk serious questions about the future of journalism:
    * What aspects of traditional journalism are most vital to be protected?
    * To what extent are new media capable of replacing traditional media?
    * What can new media, or people using new communications tools, do better than traditional media?
    * How can the power of journalism and new communications tools be harnessed to allow all parts of a community to work together to address community needs?
    * How can journalism contribute to (and benefit from) efforts to expand civic engagement through access to social media and comunications tools?

You're invited to a three and a half-day conversation about the future of journalism in the Northwest and beyond with  journalists, bloggers, community media producers, editors, academics, media activists, digital entrepreneurs, citizen journalists, freelancers, and others who care about the future of healthy media and healthy communities.

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Mike liked the invite, but cautioned about the “seemingly on their way to extinction” line… might threaten MSM folks.  We could just say “struggling.”
 
Peggy mentioned Jim Kennedy’s presentation at JTM-Poynter about AP research on under-30 readers. Showed an interest in context.
 
Mike will check Knight Commission language and see if anything might be used.
 
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What about getting Seattle Channel ?  Stephen will contact Gary Gibson
 
What would PNW news ecology look like in 10 years if this conference is successful?
 
 
FUNDING FOLLOW UP
 
Stephen:
    Kongsgaard Goldman Foundation,
    Cyrus Krohn,
    Google
Jonathan:
         Glazer Progress Fund
         Monica at the PI about talking to Roger Oglesby (sic) at Hearst Foundation
Anne:
         Harriet Bullitt, the Rabinowitz