Feb
11
No squibs today (or maybe a few later). Instead, I’m going to pass on some interesting quotes, thoughts and ideas from speakers and audience at the Northern Voice blogging conference here in Vancouver. Updated throughout the day.
- Julie Leung: Why stories are essential. These phrases seem to me to have great relevance for journalism: “stories together, build resonance and relationships” and “stories are our definition and our destination.” One more: “In this time of truthiness, I long for what is real.”
- Dave Sifry (Technorati): Sifry on the Blogosphere. This applies to mass media as well as blogosphere: “authority does not denote veracity.” I think I know what this means: “We can’t measure the news cycle any more in hours, we have to start measuring it in megaHertz.”
- Michael Tippett (Now Public): The Changing Face of Journalism. Michael mentioned “a latent army of citizen journalists just waiting for something to happen,” all those people with cameras, cellphones, etc. who wind up in the path of news. Nice phrase; big concept.
- Michael Ouimet: The Changing Face of Journalism. “There’s journalism and then there’s the device and the way in which you consume.” And a paraphrase: the device and “the way” change the content. Personal thought: we don’t spend enough time discussing that when we talk about the future of journalism. We talk about “going where the readers are” but as an impact on how we deliver, not necessarily what we do.
- Mark Schneider (UBC): The Changing Face of Journalism. On valuable skills journalists learn (that apply to new media): “There is this instant feedback system” of the large audience. “You have to have an open mind to receiving what’s out there.” “The discipline of corroborating information.” “Journalists share this incredible personal urge to get the story.” “As the trust in traditional news products goes down, what hasn’t changed in the dedication of individual journalists.” Later: “We’ve always been attracted to intelligence and creativity.”
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