Everybody’s Talking, No One Cares About You, and Nobody Can Hear You Scream A high-minded panel discussion about the irreversible cultural transformation that is wrecking everything journalists hold dear. Plus: How to get over it, dive into it and use it to your advantage. Drinks to follow.
Slides from the Social Media panel at NVision, a conference on the future of journalism held March 30, 2009 at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. Panelists include Patrick Cooper of USA Today, Etan Horowitz of the Orlando Sentinel, Scott Karp of Publish2, and Jennifer Golbeck, a professor at the University of Maryland.
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Everybody’s Talking,No One Cares About You, and Nobody Can Hear You
Scream A high-minded panel discussion about the
irreversible cultural transformation that is wrecking everything journalists hold dear.
Plus: How to get over it, dive into it and use it to your
advantage.
Drinks to follow.
What Was*
Creator of Really Great Journalism
One-way distribution of your great stuff to enthused readers. Cool!
* Ca. 1439 - 2006
What Is
Creator of Really Great Journalism
Everyone creating stuff and talking each other. Uh-oh.
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What Is [detail]
Creator of Really Great Journalism
And take a look who’s in that “Conversation.” Big uh-oh.
Simpleton
Some random
loudmouth
Little-known genius
Publisher of deep
vertical journalism
Artiste with video
camera
Twitterer with lots
of followers
That
guy
That othe
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Publisher of OK
Journalism
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Idiot with video
camera
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Forces of commerce,
evil and benign
Famous person
Brilliant amateur smarter than you.
Insufferable partisan
blowhard
Annoying social media evangelistsoften refer to this as
“A persistent, transparent, inclusive, multi-media global conversation in which anybody can participate and
which nobody can control.”
And yet journalists often say they “just need a new business model.”
They are wrong. So very wrong.
And So…..?
Panelists
etanowitz Etan Horowitz is a tech reporter at the Orlando Sentinel who loves using new tools 2 connect w/ people and learn about the world. Go Terps!
btrpkc Patrick's a product innovation manager at USA TODAY, building digital spaces & tools. Previously edited, blogged, ran UGC journalism there.$
golbeck is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland. She studies social networks, trust and artificial intelligence for web personalizat
scottkarp Co-founder and CEO of Publish2, a platform for collaborative journalism; journalism blogger and evangelist. craigstoltz helps publishers and others use the web better, sometimes by using social media. He left the Washington Post before it was the thing to do.
Opening the conversation• Network journalism and identity
Leading the conversation• Communities and structure
Joining the larger conversation• Social media spots, but bringing strategy