What’s Next: Key Themes

Purpose

  • 2010: Journalism that matters for the 21st century.

Themes

  • Inner-Outer journalist
  • Preparing the next generation journalists
  • Emerging business model

v  Fetzer funds next step and uses to connect with

  • Soros
  • Poynter
  • Pew

v  Capture the landscape from this round

  • Presentation to lay the ground

Challenges

  • Time commitment (3 days)
  • Self care – opportunities for doing other things
  • Kindred spirits from organizations

Qualities of who to invite

  • Kindred spirits
  • People who are “weavers” between practical and out there
  • Well connected
  • Open to new ideas
  • “Fertile crescent” – in the mainstream, not “of” the mainstream, open
  • Racial
  • Geographic
  • Original
  • Gender

Who to Invite

Journalism Schools

  • Lew Friedland
  • Cole Campbell
  • Karen Dunlap – Poynter
  • Keith Woods – Poynter

Working Journalists

  • Jane Ellen Stevens – Multi-media
  • Robin Sloan – InDTV
  • Matt Thompson – fresno.com
  • Orage Quarles – publisher
  • Dale Reskin or Andrew Nachison
  • Brant Houston – E.D. Investment Reporters Editors
  • Givermo Franco (news gathering)

Bloggers

  • Jay Rosen
  • Dan Gillmor
  • Rex Sorga

Funders

  • Becky Lentz-Ford
  • Huag Vu-Allan
  • Antonio Wallace

Citizen Activists

  • Chuck D.
  • Miguel Ortega
  • Anthony Riddell
  • D. C. Maury
  • Sally Alvarez
  • Petri Dish
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