Burning Questions

Amanda Dye: How to maintain sanity in a world and profession (newspapers) where it’s difficult to have faith in the future?

Steve Brant: How to balance pessimism with optimism in media? How to develop new solutions-based journalism?

Ed Lennart: How to teach a 10-month master’s program in interactive Web 2.0 journalism using Lake Tahoe as community laboratory?

Vikki Porter: How to reach in to pull out the passion in people who are so beleaguered? Is there really a future for journalism?

Heather Brandon: How can I partner with people with a similar interest in cities and journalism?

Jill Lang: How to convince young journalists it’s worth it to spend at least 2 years at a local paper, for their personal and professional development?

Sara Stahlberg: How to get young people to care about the news and civic engagement?

Steve Fox: What to do about a world of partisan sources?

Jeff Fox: How to both empower and advocate for consumers?

Joe Howry: How do we hold onto our core values of journalism in the current transitions?

Michael Skoler: How does mainstream journalism become more humble?

Margo Gordon: How to rebuild community? How can I fit in the current world of journalism?

Patrick Marx: How to revive the fine art of bullshit detection?

Stephen Silha: How to open up the profession to listening to young voices and representing them more often and honestly in media?

Richard “Learn Share Shop” Anderson: Where’s the money coming from for journalism that matters?

Conor Kenney: How to get journalists to participate in wikis like Congresspedia?

Gary Gilson: How to get more context (i.e. quality) in journalism?

Josh Wilson: How to raise money for newsdesk.org to do nonpartisan journalism with context?

Michael Stoll: How do we (new forms of media) take the best parts of the information revolution and BECOME the mainstream?

Jim Shaffer: What are the new economic models? How to reduce the pain of the disruptive innovation? How to enable leadership to adapt to change?

Paul Grabowicz: How can someone as antisocial and pessimistic as I work in a group like this? Is community journalism working? Is anybody listening (or commenting)?

Peter Bhatia: Can we (MSM) change enough to keep journalism relevant? Be good watchdogs? Meld new and old media?

Jane Ellen Stevens: How can we restructure organizations to embrace the change?