Reports from the afternoon-sharing session
By 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 8, participants in “Journalism That Matters: The DC Sessions” were ready to offer some key reports and insights after multiple breakout sessions and group discussions. (34 min.; 15.6MB)
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A few excerpts reports from afternoon sharing:
*Len Witt: Reach out to people on the ground and find out what they know and don’t know. It’s a paradigm change.
*Victor of Univ. of Ill. and Free Press.
*Several sessions on media policy. A recurring theme was ignoring Internet policy is perilous. If journalism will have at least a net component,then have to engaged with network neutrality and other things. There also might be a role for policy to subsidize these models and create new revenue streams. There may be other ways to get local government involved.
*Jim Shaffer: Is journalism broken or is the vessel broken? it is a question of one-to-one journalism and many-to-one journalism. Aren’t values the same regardless of the vehicle? Shaffer is concluding the values should change as we move to many-to-many — that implies a different covenant.