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2009-05-25T00:45:02Z

216.106.40.187: /* 10:15 a.m. -- Discussion/Q&A: The Strategic Landscape for Sustaining News */

[[Image:Gwu-smpa.jpg|frame|left|[GWU SMPA Building]]]

=AN URGENT DISCUSSION:<BR><BR>"From Gatekeeper to Information Valet:<br><br>Work Plans for Sustaining Journalism"=
===Wed., May 27, 2009 / 10 a.m.-4 p.m. / The George Washington University / Jack Morton Auditorium / 805 21st Street NW / Washington D.C.===
[[Image:Rji-ideas.jpg|thumb|150px|right|[http://rji.missouri.edu/image-library/stories/new-building/index.php RJI PICTURED]]]
[[Image:Rji-working.jpg|thumb|150px|right|[http://rji.missouri.edu/vision-and-mission/index.php THE RJI VISION]]]
<hr><h3>[https://extweb.missouri.edu/NewWebReg/Login.aspx?uid=3&pid=112389 REGISTER NOW ($55/full day; $30 half day)] / [http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Gwu-program VIEW PROGRAM] / [http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Gwu-participants WHO'S PARTICIPATING?]
/[http://tinyurl.com/cymuke VIEW/PRINT TWO-PAGE FLYER]</h3><hr>

==Tentative Program and Schedule==

(Times and presenters subject to change / check this page for last-minute updates)

===''9 a.m. -- Pre-event coffee/danish and discussion''===
<ul>
* Register and connect early with other participants/attendees and presenters over coffee and danish from 9 a.m. '''(LOCATION: Atrium area on floor above Jack Morton Auditorium -- enter SMPA front doors)'''
</ul>

===10 a.m. -- Welcome by Michael Shanahan, GWU School of Media & Public Affairs===

===10:05 a.m. -- The Reynolds Journalism Institute: Ideas, research, experiments, solutions===
<ul>
*With the intention of broadly collaborating with other institutions and enterprises, the [http://www.rjionline.org Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute] (RJI) at the Missouri School of Journalism is pursuing ideas, research, experiments and solutions that help sustain and lead journalism into the 21st century. Dean Mills, Pam Johnson and Bill Densmore offer a short briefing on RJI, the RJI fellows program, the Information Valet Project and the "do-tank" approach to discovering, assessing, integrating and deploying multiple revenue solutions for the news industry across multiple platforms. </ul>

===10:15 a.m. -- Discussion/Q&A: The Strategic Landscape for Sustaining News ===
<ul>
*RJI commissioned [http://www.betterbuydesign.com/resources.html Steve Mott,] a former journalist and noted payments-industry analyst and consultant to comprehensively study the best research on mobile, print and web marketplaces to paint a picture from a non-news-industry perspective of strategies for sustaining journalism. Also part of the discussion: Walter Isaacson, president/CEO of The Aspen Institute; Cynthia Typaldos, founder and president of [http://www.kachingle.com/ Kachingle], Matt Mankins of [http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Gwu-participants-mankins In-a-Moon,] and Scott Karp, founder of [http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jta-participants-karp Publish 2.0]. This panel may challenge conventional wisdom, setting a tone for the rest of the day. Come with tough questions.</ul>
[[Image:Gwu-lobby.jpg|frame|left|[SMPA break-out space]]]

===11:15 a.m. -- 'Can News Media Survive the Internet Age?' -- The FTC perspective===
<ul>
What is the role of regulators in the news-industry transition considering issues like privacy, advertising, ownership, antitrust, copyright and broadband access? [http://innovationforum.gmu.edu/bios/desanti.php Susan S. DeSanti,] who has just returned as director of policy planning for the Federal Trade Commission, explains the agency's recent decision to hold a series of workshops, [http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2009/05/newspapers.shtm starting Sept. 15]. </ul>

===11:30 a.m. -- Briefing: A work in progress: Building the InfoValet Economy===
<ul>
*Moving from mass markets to mass customization, from gatekeeper to "information valet" is an urgent task for traditional print and broadcast news organizations. Reynolds Fellow [http://rji.missouri.edu/projects/info-valet/index.php Bill Densmore,] InfoCard's [http://www.parity.com/team.html#paul Paul Trevithick], CircLabs' [http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-participants-vanderclute Jeff Vander Clute] and [http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-participants-langeveld Martin Langeveld] present present a work-in-progress concept solution addressing user privacy, interest-based advertising, customized news and multi-site subscription networks -- including a proposed launch timetable. What's missing? A Q&A follows. </ul>

===11:45 a.m. -- The Wall of ideas: Tapping the wisdom of our crowd ===
<ul>
*The Jack Morton Auditorium and adjacent foyer offers the space during lunch for participants to caucus and agree on critical topics to propose for discussion during one round of concurrent, group-called breakout sessions in the afternoon. We'll describe how the convening process works before serving a box lunch. But first, we'll ask everyone in the room: What are you working on?</ul>

===12:00-12:45 p.m. -- BOX LUNCH -- A chance to network ideas, and post breakouts ===
<ul>
*Post discussion topics on the News Wall, and negotiate with fellow convenors to combine or morph related topics.</ul>

===12:45 p.m. -- The Value of privacy: Findings from a new national study -- Prof. Lee Wilkins===
<ul>
*As the public becomes more aware of how its time and attention is "monetized," what are citizens willing to trade for the privacy, and how is it valued? Missouri School of Journalism Prof. Lee Wilkins reveals results from a new national study completed in in early April. </ul>

===1:15 p.m. -- "GAME ON! Aggregators vs. Newspapers and the Future of Online News"===
<ul>
*Missouri School of Journalism grad student Emily Sussman will discuss past, present and future experiments with paywalls around news and information. Will the massive popularity of aggregation websites keep news and information (mostly) free to consumers, or will an emerging newspaper consortium usher in the second (and perhaps, successful) generation of paid content? The presentation will explore these questions in light of the web's post-scarcity economy. A vigorous Q&A will follow. '''</ul>

===1:45 p.m. -- QUICK-SHARE BRIEFINGS: More options for saving journalism or newspapers===
Briefings are seven-minute updates to share knowledge on key projects, ideas and technologies ongoing concurrently. Depending on interest, leaders will lead breakout sessions immediately after this segment.
<ul>
*'''Charles "Chuck" Lewis,''' director, Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University; Joe Bergantino, founder, New England Center for Investigative Reporting; Ann Peters, [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Gwu-pulitzer Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting,] and Bill Buzenberg of the Center for Public Integrity-- "Update on formation and funding of non-profit national and regional investigative journalism initiatives."
*'''James "Jay" Hamilton,''' Duke University, author ''All the News That's Fit to Sell'' -- "Concepts for trading of privacy as an economic good."
*'''Curtis Gans,''' [http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Gwu-participants-gans "DISCUSSION: Saving the Newspaper at the Center of Civic Literacy."]
*[http://albertsun.info/about/ Sun, Albert,], student, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. / [http://albertsun.info/2009/03/price-discriminate/ "The Economics of Charging for Online Content"]
</ul>
[[Image:Gwu-floortwo.jpg|frame|right|[lobby / breakout space]]]

[[Image:Gwu-morton.jpg|frame|left|[Jack Morton Auditorium in use]]]
<hr><h3>[http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jta BACK TO HOME PAGE]</H3><HR>

===2:30 p.m. -- Discussion and snack break -- preparing for breakouts ===
<ul>
*Whew! Ten briefings in four hours: It's time to connect the dots, assess options and get ready for a flight of breakout sessions.</ul>

=== 2:45 p.m -- Self-identified convenors call their 5-7 breakouts===
<ul>
*Breakouts disperse within Jack Morton, the atrium and other designated spaces. The goal: Formulate recommendations and ideas for action for the Innovation Engine at RJI and the general journalism community. Return with three ideas and at least one proposed action step. </ul>

=== 3:30 p.m. -- What we've learned / Next steps===
<ul>
*Our breakout session scribes return and present -- A fast, faciliated "what have we learned" and "next steps" session. (Bill Densmore)
*Joining the Journalism Trust initiative</ul>
<br><hr>[http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jta RETURN TO HOME PAGE]
<h3>[https://extweb.missouri.edu/NewWebReg/Login.aspx?uid=3&pid=112389 REGISTER NOW ($55/full day; $30 half day)]</h3><hr>
====Lodging reservations====

For lodging, you may book a room at the special rate of $189/night, plus tax, at the university-owned [http://www.gwuinn.com/ George Washington University Inn,] 824 New Hampshire Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20037. This "Reynolds Journalism Institute" rate is only available up request by telephoning the GWU Inn reservation desk directly at (202) 337-6620. The Inn offers complimentary Internet Access wire or wireless. Its lobby-located Notti Bianche restaurant is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. (A box lunch on Wednesday, May 27, is included in the symposium schedule and registration fee).

For more information [mailto:densmorew@rjionline.org email] Bill Densmore, 2008-2009 Reynolds Fellow, or call 573-882-9812.

<hr>
<big>"We need many news organizations to keep our country strong. We need to help each other. We need to <b>partner,</b> we need to <b>experiment</b> and we need to accept and agree that we will continue, we will not accept failure and we need to keep trying and <b>trying different models</b> until we get it right."</big> <LI> Vivian Schiller, CEO of National Public Radio, March 30, 2009, at the [http://www.newsvision.org NewsVision Conference.]<br>
<P>
<big>In a March 16 Time Magazine story about the Project on Excellence in Journalism's 2009 "State of the News Media," report, M.J. Stephey wrote: " . . . (I)f solutions aren't obvious, the report's overall message is: <b>Will the future leaders of journalism please stand up?"</b></big>

Main Page

2009-05-12T13:19:19Z

216.106.40.187:

=[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Rji-collaboratory LAUNCHED: <br><br>"Putting Feet on the Streets for Journalism -- The RJI Collaboratory"]=
[[Image:Rji-ideas.jpg|thumb|150px|left|[http://rji.missouri.edu/image-library/stories/new-building/index.php RJI PICTURED]]]
[[Image:Rji-working.jpg|thumb|150px|right|[http://rji.missouri.edu/vision-and-mission/index.php THE RJI VISION]]]

=OTHER LINKS:=

*[http://www.rjionline.org DONALD W. REYNOLDS JOURNALISM INSTITUTE HOME PAGE]
*[http://www.journalismtrust.org THE GATEKEEPER-TO-INFOVALET SYMPOSIUM]
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[http://rji.missouri.edu Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute]<br>
Missouri School of Journalism<br>
Columbia MO 65211<br>
573-882-2922<br>

Gwu-program

2009-05-12T13:16:30Z

216.106.40.187:

[[Image:Gwu-smpa.jpg|frame|left|[GWU SMPA Building]]]

=AN URGENT DISCUSSION:<BR><BR>"From Gatekeeper to Information Valet:<br><br>Work Plans for Sustaining Journalism"=
===Wed., May 27, 2009 / 10 a.m.-4 p.m. / The George Washington University / Jack Morton Auditorium / 805 21st Street NW / Washington D.C.===
[[Image:Rji-ideas.jpg|thumb|150px|right|[http://rji.missouri.edu/image-library/stories/new-building/index.php RJI PICTURED]]]
[[Image:Rji-working.jpg|thumb|150px|right|[http://rji.missouri.edu/vision-and-mission/index.php THE RJI VISION]]]
<hr><h3>[https://extweb.missouri.edu/NewWebReg/Login.aspx?uid=3&pid=112389 REGISTER NOW ($55/full day; $30 half day)]</h3><hr>

==Tentative Program and Schedule==

(Times and presenters subject to change / check this page for last-minute updates)

===''9 a.m. -- Pre-event coffee/danish and discussion''===
<ul>
* Connect early with other participants/attendees and presenters over coffee and danish from 9 a.m.
</ul>

===10 a.m. -- Announcement: Forming the RJI Journalism Trust / Journalism Innovation Engine===
<ul>
*With the intention of broadly collaborating with other institutions and enterprises, the [http://www.rjionline.org Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute] at the Missouri School of Journalism is considering seeding a Journalism Trust / Journalism Innovation Engine at RJI. It's a proposed one-year, "do-tank" to discover, assess, integrate and deploy multiple revenue solutions for the news industry across multiple platforms. Learn about the ideas and people behind the Engine in a short briefing and an interactive idea-gathering session. (Discussion leader: [http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-participants-langeveld Martin Langeveld] </ul>

===10:15 a.m. -- Discussion/Q&A: The Strategic Landscape for Sustaining News ===
<ul>
*RJI commissioned [http://www.betterbuydesign.com/resources.html Steve Mott,] a former journalist and noted payments-industry analyst and consultant to comprehensively study the best research on mobile, print and web marketplaces to paint a picture from a non-news-industry perspective of strategies for sustaining journalism. Also part of the discussion: Walter Isaacson, president/CEO of The Aspen Institute, Stephen Brill, co-founder of [http://www.journalismonline.com/ Journalism Online LLC] and Cynthia Typaldos, founder and president of [http://www.kachingle.com/ Kachingle] This discussion may challenge conventional wisdom, setting a tone for the rest of the day. Come with tough questions.</ul>
[[Image:Gwu-lobby.jpg|frame|left|[SMPA break-out space]]]

===11:15 a.m. -- Briefing: A work in progress: After The Information in Valet Project===
<ul>
*Moving from mass markets to mass customization, from gatekeeper to "information valet" is an urgent task for traditional print and broadcast news organizations. Reynolds Fellow [http://rji.missouri.edu/projects/info-valet/index.php Bill Densmore,] InfoCard's [http://www.parity.com/team.html#paul Paul Trevithick], Semesphere's [http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-participants-vanderclute Jeff Vander Clute] and other collaborators present a work-in-progress concept solution addressing user privacy, interest-based advertising, customized news and multi-site subscription networks -- including a proposed launch timetable. What's missing? A Q&A follows. </ul>

===11:45 a.m. -- The Wall of ideas: Tapping the wisdom of our crowd ===
<ul>
*The Jack Morton Auditorium and adjacent foyer offers the space during lunch for participants to caucus and agree on critical topics to propose for discussion during one round of concurrent, group-called breakout sessions in the afternoon. We'll describe how the convening process works before serving a box lunch. But first, we'll ask everyone in the room: What are you working on?</ul>

===12:00-12:45 p.m. -- BOX LUNCH -- A chance to network ideas, and post breakouts ===
<ul>
*Post discussion topics on the News Wall, and negotiate with fellow convenors to combine or morph related topics.</ul>

===12:45 p.m. -- The Value of privacy: Findings from a new national study -- Prof. Lee Wilkins===
<ul>
*As the public becomes more aware of how its time and attention is "monetized," what are citizens willing to trade for the privacy, and how is it valued? Missouri School of Journalism Prof. Lee Wilkins reveals results from a new national study completed in in early April. </ul>

===1:15 p.m. -- "GAME ON! Aggregators vs. Newspapers and the Future of Online News"===
<ul>
*Missouri School of Journalism grad student Emily Sussman presents her multimedia project about past, present and future experiments with paywalls and portals. Follow her narrative and find out why ''Mother Jones'' may very well represent the best (existing) financial model for news and information. This fully interactive presentation and its arguments are based upon empirical evidence — NOT abstractions, anecdotes or agenda-setting. A vigorous Q&A will follow.'''</ul>

===1:45 p.m. -- QUICK-SHARE BRIEFINGS===
Briefings are five-minute updates to share knowledge on key projects, ideas and technologies ongoing concurrently. Depending on interest, leaders will lead breakout sessions immediately after htis segment.
<ul>
*'''Charles "Chuck" Lewis,''' American University, founder Center for Public Integrity -- "Update on formation and funding of non-profit national and regional investigative journalism initiatives."
*'''James "Jay" Hamilton,''' Duke University, author ''All the News That's Fit to Sell'' -- "Concepts for trading of privacy as an economic good."
*'''Jane Stevens,''' Reynolds Journalism Institute, "The RJI Collaboratory."
*'''Curtis Gans,''' "Saving the Newspaper at the Center of Civic Literacy."
</ul>
[[Image:Gwu-floortwo.jpg|frame|right|[lobby / breakout space]]]

[[Image:Gwu-morton.jpg|frame|left|[Jack Morton Auditorium in use]]]
<hr><h3>[http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jta BACK TO HOME PAGE]</H3><HR>

===2:30 p.m. -- Discussion and snack break -- preparing for breakouts ===
<ul>
*Whew! Ten briefings in four hours: It's time to connect the dots, assess options and get ready for a flight of breakout sessions.</ul>

=== 2:45 p.m -- Self-identified convenors call their 5-7 breakouts===
<ul>
*Breakouts disperse within Jack Morton, the atrium and other designated spaces. The goal: Formulate recommendations and ideas for action for the Innovation Engine at RJI and the general journalism community. Return with three ideas and at least one proposed action step. </ul>

=== 3:30 p.m. -- What we've learned / Next steps===
<ul>
*Our breakout session scribes return and present -- A fast, faciliated "what have we learned" and "next steps" session. (Bill Densmore)
*Joining the Journalism Trust initiative</ul>
<br><hr>[http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jta RETURN TO HOME PAGE]
<h3>[https://extweb.missouri.edu/NewWebReg/Login.aspx?uid=3&pid=112389 REGISTER NOW ($55/full day; $30 half day)]</h3><hr>
====Lodging reservations====

For lodging, you may book a room at the special rate of $189/night, plus tax, at the university-owned [http://www.gwuinn.com/ George Washington University Inn,] 824 New Hampshire Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20037. This "Reynolds Journalism Institute" rate is only available up request by telephoning the GWU Inn reservation desk directly at (202) 337-6620. The Inn offers complimentary Internet Access wire or wireless. Its lobby-located Notti Bianche restaurant is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. (A box lunch on Wednesday, May 27, is included in the symposium schedule and registration fee).

For more information [mailto:densmorew@rjionline.org email] Bill Densmore, 2008-2009 Reynolds Fellow, or call 573-882-9812.

<hr>
<big>"We need many news organizations to keep our country strong. We need to help each other. We need to <b>partner,</b> we need to <b>experiment</b> and we need to accept and agree that we will continue, we will not accept failure and we need to keep trying and <b>trying different models</b> until we get it right."</big> <LI> Vivian Schiller, CEO of National Public Radio, March 30, 2009, at the [http://www.newsvision.org NewsVision Conference.]<br>
<P>
<big>In a March 16 Time Magazine story about the Project on Excellence in Journalism's 2009 "State of the News Media," report, M.J. Stephey wrote: " . . . (I)f solutions aren't obvious, the report's overall message is: <b>Will the future leaders of journalism please stand up?"</b></big>

Gwu-participants

2009-05-12T05:57:29Z

216.106.40.187:

[[Image:Gwu-smpa.jpg|frame|left|[GWU SMPA Building]]]

=AN URGENT DISCUSSION:<BR><BR>"From Gatekeeper to Information Valet:<br><br>Work Plans for Sustaining Journalism"=
===Wed., May 27, 2009 / 10 a.m.-4 p.m. / The George Washington University / Jack Morton Auditorium / 805 21st Street NW / Washington D.C.===
[[Image:Rji-ideas.jpg|thumb|150px|right|[http://rji.missouri.edu/image-library/stories/new-building/index.php RJI PICTURED]]]
[[Image:Rji-working.jpg|thumb|150px|right|[http://rji.missouri.edu/vision-and-mission/index.php THE RJI VISION]]]
<hr><h3>[http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Gwu-program VIEW PROGRAM] / [https://extweb.missouri.edu/NewWebReg/Login.aspx?uid=3&pid=112389 REGISTER NOW] /
[http://www.journalismtrust.org BACK TO HOME PAGE]</h3>
==WHO'S COMING?==
<i>preregistered</i>

#[http://www.linkedin.com/pub/8/360/882 Aitamurto, Tanja J.,] journalist/blogger, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helsingin_Sanomat Helsingin Sanomat,] San Francisco, Calif.
#Anderson, Christopher, College of Staten Island, CUNY
#Ashley, Seth, graduate student, Missouri School of Journalism / researcher, Information Valet Project
#[http://www.necir-bu.org/ourpeople_bios.html#joe Bergantino, Joseph,] founder, [http://www.necir-bu.org/ New England Center for Investigative Reporting,]u Boston University, Boston, Mass.
#Boyer, John, OneBlue.org, Washington, D.C.
#Brant, Steve, columnist, [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-g-brant The Huffington Post,] New York, NY
#Johnson, Brian K., Dept. of Journalism, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Ill.
#Brill, Stephen, co-founder, Journalism Online LLC, New York
#Buzenberg, Bill, director, Center for Public Integrity, Washington, D.C.
#[http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/people/miguel/ Castro, Miguel,] program coordinator, Open Society Institute Media Program,Soros Foundations Network, London, U.K.
#Comport, Caroline, [http://www.ocrpl.org/?p=615 The Media Project] of the [http://www.ocrpl.org/?page_id=3 Oxford Centre on Religion and and Public Life,] Washington, D.C.
#[http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/content/8280.cfm Conover, Dan,] blogger, [http://conovermedia.blogspot.com/ "Conover on Media,"] Charleston, S.C. [http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-participants-conover (MORE ABOUT CONOVER)]
#Cumings, Valerie, journalism professor, Howard University, Washington, D.C.
#[http://www.concernedjournalists.org/node/404 Dean, Wally,] director, broadcast initiatives, Committee of Concerned Journalists, Washington, D.C.
#[http://newshare.typepad.com/about.html Densmore, Bill,] director, [http://www.infovalet.org Information Valet Project] and 2008-2009 fellow, D.W. [http://www.rjionline.org Reynolds Journalism Institute,] Columbia, Mo.
#Didriksen, Neil, publisher, [http://www.marylandcommons.com/about Maryland Commons,] Towson, Md.
#Ducey, Rick, chief strategy officer, [http://blog.kelseygroup.com/index.php/2009/04/23/bia-kelsey-expert-commentary-ducey-on-local-tvs-bounce-from-new-media/ BIA/Kelsey Group,] Chantilly, Va.
#Durkin, Tracy Ward, founder/publisher, The Urbanite, Baltimore, Md.
#Eskelsen, Todd R., attorney, Schiff Hardin LLP, Washington, D.C.
#Gambill, Joel, Arkansas State University
#[http://www.aspeninstitute.org/policy-work/communications-society/about-communications-society-program/amy-korzick-garmer-director- Garmer, Amy,] journalism programs director, [http://www.aspeninstitute.org/policy-work/communications-society The Aspen Institute,] Washington, D.C.
#Glick, Mary M., American Press Institute, Reston, Va.
#Gorman, Christine, Global Health Report
#Fruit, Jeff, Kent State University
#Halpern, Barbara, ION Content Marketing Momentum
#Hamilton, James "Jay", professor, director, DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, Duke University, Durham, N.C.
#Harmon, Greg, CEO, Belden Interactive, San Francisco, Calif.
#Hart, Jonathan D., partner, Dow Lohnes PLLC, Washington, D.C.
#Hassan, Sarah, founder/president, [http://www.oneblue.org OneBlue.org], Washington D.C.
#[http://www.widmeyer.com/what/HassettSanchez.asp Hassett Sanchez, Jody,] [http://www.ocrpl.org/?cat=3 The Media Project] of the Oxford Centre for Religion and Public Life, Washington, D.C.
#[http://www.gwu.edu/~smpa/faculty/LeeHuebner.cfm Huebner, Lee,] director, School of Media & Public Affairs, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
#Hume, Ellen, Center for Future Civic Media, MIT, Cambridge, Mass.
#Issacson, Walter, chairman, The Aspen Institute, Washington, D.C.
#[http://www.media.illinois.edu/faculty/johnson.html Johnson, Brian,] Associate Head, Department of Journalism, Univ. of Illinois journalism, Urbana, Il.
#[http://rji.missouri.edu/staff-and-advisers/pam-johnson.php Johnson, Pam,] exective director, Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, Mo.
#[http://publishing2.com/author/scott-karp/ Karp, Scott,] founder/CEO, Publish2 Inc., Leesburg, Va.
#Kelly, Susan Brooks, multimedia producer,The Newseum, Washington, D.C.
#Klos, Diana Mitsu, senior project director, American Society of News Editors, Reston, Va.
#Lawton, Beth, Newspaper Association of America
#Lewis, Charles, director, Investigative Reporting Workshop at American Univ. / founder, Center for Public Integrity, Washington, D.C.
#Lewis, Pat, [http://www.hopestreetgroup.org/about Hope Street Group],
#Lerner, Richard, CEO, [http://www.clickshare.com/aboutus Clickshare Service Corp.], Amherst, Mass.
#Luecke, Pame, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va.
#[http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/cs/ContentServer/jrn/1165270069757/JRN_Profile_C/1175373607703/JRNFacultyDetail.htm Lundberg, Kirsten,] director, Case Studies Initiative, Columbia Univ. Graduate School of Journalism, New York, N.Y.
#[http://alum.mit.edu/news/AlumniProfiles/Archive/Matt_Mankins_SM_-2703.jsp Mankins, Matt,] CEO/founder, [http://www.slideshare.net/mankins/inamoon-overview InAMoon.com,] Cambridge, Mass. [http://www.slideshare.net/mankins/inamoon-overview (OVERVIEW)]
#[http://my.wemediacommunity.org/profile/MattMansfield Mansfield, Matt,] co-director, Washington Program, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University
#[http://www.gwu.edu/~smpa/faculty/albert_may.cfm May, Albert L.,,] associate professor of media and public affairs, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
#Mills, R. Dean, dean, Missouri School of Journalism, Columbia, Mo.
#[http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/content/6861.cfm Peskin, Mary,] associate director, American Press Institute, Reston, Va.
#[http://www.betterbuydesign.com/resources.html Mott, Steve,] principal, BetterBuyDesign.com, Stanford, Conn.
#O'Dwyer, John, [http://www.odwyerpr.com/site_info/advertising.htm O'dwyer's PR News,] New York
#[http://www.turnerstrategies.com/content/view/82/45/ Pan, Gloria,] vice president, Turner Strategies Inc., Washington, D.C.
#Paulson, Tom, freelance writer, Seattle, Wash. (former science/medical reporter, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
#[http://ifocos.org/2006/12/22/bio-dale-peskin/ Peskin, Dale,] co-founder and managing director, iFOCOS We Media, Reston, Va.
#[http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/pages/apinews/api_news_releases/mary_peskin_joins_api_as_assoc/ Peskin, Mary,] associate director, American Press Institute, Reston, Va.
#[http://pia.gmu.edu/faculty_staff/bio.php?fname=Paul&lname=Posner Posner, Paul,] director, Masters in Public Administration program, George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
#Rabb, Christopher, fellow, Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
#[http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/departments/journalism/faculty/rosenberg.html Rosenberg, Geanne,] jouranlism professor, Baruch University, New York
#Schecker, Fred, Stateline.org, Pew Center on States, Washington, D.C.
#[http://www.lee.net/aboutlee/bios.shtml Schermer, Greg,] vp-interactive, Lee Enterprises Inc., Davenport, Iowa [http://informationvalet.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/blueprint-summit-lee-enterprises-greg-schermer-sets-the-stage/ (DECEMBER VIDEO)]
#Schreiber, Ernie, editor, ''Lancaster New Era,'' Lancaster Newspapers Inc., Lancaster, Pa. (also chair, Pennsylvania Society of Newspaper Editors)
#Shackelford, Tiffany, Phase2 Technology (former director, Online News Association)
#Steiner, Marc B., the [http://www.steinershow.org/about/cem Mark Steiner Show] at the [http://cem.ucf.edu/ Center for Emerging Media,] University of Central Florida, Orlando, Fla.
#Sussman, Emily, graduate researcher, Missouri School of Journalism, Columbia, Mo.
#Terry, Charles, principal, [http://www.www.CWTgroup.net the CWT Group,] Washington, D.C.
#Tompson, Jeanne, Green Springfield, Springfield, Va.
#Tisdale, John, Associate Director, Schieffer School of Journalism, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas
#[http://www.parity.com/team.html#paul Trevithick, Paul,] ceo, Azigo Inc./chairman [http://www.informationcard.net Information Card Foundation,] Newton, Mass.
#[http://www.turnerstrategies.com/content/view/82/45/ Turner, Suzanne,] president, [http://www.turnerstrategies.com/content/view/79/43/ Turner Strategies Inc.,] Washington, D.C.
#[http://www.linkedin.com/in/typaldos Typaldos, Cynthia,] president/founder, [http://corporate-blog.kachingle.com/ Kachingle LLC,] Mountain View, Calif.
#[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-participants-vanderclute Vander Clute, Jeff,] founder Semesphere Inc. / consultant, [http://www.infovalet.org Information Valet Project,] Palo Alto, Calif.
#Wei, Jiyan, PRWeb, Washington, D.C.
#Wilkins, Lee, professor, Missouri School of Journalism, Columbia, Mo.
#Wittstock, Melinda, founder/editor, [http://www.cncnews.org Capitol News Connection,] Washington, D.C.
#Zeck, Denise, executive director, [http://www.mediaforum.org/about.cfm The American Forum], Washington, D.C.

Gwu-participants

2009-05-10T23:00:37Z

216.106.40.187:

[[Image:Gwu-smpa.jpg|frame|left|[GWU SMPA Building]]]

=AN URGENT DISCUSSION:<BR><BR>"From Gatekeeper to Information Valet:<br><br>Work Plans for Sustaining Journalism"=
===Wed., May 27, 2009 / 10 a.m.-4 p.m. / The George Washington University / Jack Morton Auditorium / 805 21st Street NW / Washington D.C.===
[[Image:Rji-ideas.jpg|thumb|150px|right|[http://rji.missouri.edu/image-library/stories/new-building/index.php RJI PICTURED]]]
[[Image:Rji-working.jpg|thumb|150px|right|[http://rji.missouri.edu/vision-and-mission/index.php THE RJI VISION]]]
<hr><h3>[http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Gwu-program VIEW PROGRAM] / [https://extweb.missouri.edu/NewWebReg/Login.aspx?uid=3&pid=112389 REGISTER NOW] /
[http://www.journalismtrust.org BACK TO HOME PAGE]</h3>
==WHO'S COMING?==
<i>preregistered</i>

#[http://www.linkedin.com/pub/8/360/882 Aitamurto, Tanja J.,] journalist/blogger, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helsingin_Sanomat Helsingin Sanomat,] San Francisco, Calif.
#Anderson, Christopher, College of Staten Island, CUNY
#Ashley, Seth, graduate student, Missouri School of Journalism / researcher, Information Valet Project
#[http://www.necir-bu.org/ourpeople_bios.html#joe Bergantino, Joseph,] founder, [http://www.necir-bu.org/ New England Center for Investigative Reporting,]u Boston University, Boston, Mass.
#Boyer, John, OneBlue.org, Washington, D.C.
#Brant, Steve, columnist, [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-g-brant The Huffington Post,] New York, NY
#Johnson, Brian K., Dept. of Journalism, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Ill.
#Brill, Stephen, co-founder, Journalism Online LLC, New York
#Buzenberg, Bill, director, Center for Public Integrity, Washington, D.C.
#[http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/people/miguel/ Castro, Miguel,] program coordinator, Open Society Institute Media Program,Soros Foundations Network, London, U.K.
#Comport, Caroline, [http://www.ocrpl.org/?p=615 The Media Project] of the [http://www.ocrpl.org/?page_id=3 Oxford Centre on Religion and and Public Life,] Washington, D.C.
#[http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/content/8280.cfm Conover, Dan,] blogger, [http://conovermedia.blogspot.com/ "Conover on Media,"] Charleston, S.C. [http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-participants-conover (MORE ABOUT CONOVER)]
#Cummings, Valerie, journalism professor, Howard University, Washington, D.C.
#[http://www.concernedjournalists.org/node/404 Dean, Wally,] director, broadcast initiatives, Committee of Concerned Journalists, Washington, D.C.
#[http://newshare.typepad.com/about.html Densmore, Bill,] director, [http://www.infovalet.org Information Valet Project] and 2008-2009 fellow, D.W. [http://www.rjionline.org Reynolds Journalism Institute,] Columbia, Mo.
#Didriksen, Neil, publisher, [http://www.marylandcommons.com/about Maryland Commons,] Towson, Md.
#Ducey, Rick, chief strategy officer, [http://blog.kelseygroup.com/index.php/2009/04/23/bia-kelsey-expert-commentary-ducey-on-local-tvs-bounce-from-new-media/ BIA/Kelsey Group,] Chantilly, Va.
#Durkin, Tracy Ward, founder/publisher, The Urbanite, Baltimore, Md.
#Eskelsen, Todd R., attorney, Schiff Hardin LLP, Washington, D.C.
#Gambill, Joel, Arkansas State University
#Glick, Mary M., American Press Institute, Reston, Va.
#Gorman, Christine, Global Health Report
#Fruit, Jeff, Kent State University
#Halpern, Barbara, ION Content Marketing Momentum
#Hamilton, James "Jay", professor, director, DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, Duke University, Durham, N.C.
#Harmon, Greg, CEO, Belden Interactive, San Francisco, Calif.
#Hart, Jonathan D., partner, Dow Lohnes PLLC, Washington, D.C.
#Hassan, Sarah, founder/president, [http://www.oneblue.org OneBlue.org], Washington D.C.
#[http://www.widmeyer.com/what/HassettSanchez.asp Hassett Sanchez, Jody,] [http://www.ocrpl.org/?cat=3 The Media Project] of the Oxford Centre for Religion and Public Life, Washington, D.C.
#[http://www.gwu.edu/~smpa/faculty/LeeHuebner.cfm Huebner, Lee,] director, School of Media & Public Affairs, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
#Hume, Ellen, Center for Future Civic Media, MIT, Cambridge, Mass.
#Issacson, Walter, chairman, The Aspen Institute, Washington, D.C.
#[http://www.media.illinois.edu/faculty/johnson.html Johnson, Brian,] Associate Head, Department of Journalism, Univ. of Illinois journalism, Urbana, Il.
#[http://rji.missouri.edu/staff-and-advisers/pam-johnson.php Johnson, Pam,] exective director, Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, Mo.
#Kelly, Susan Brooks, multimedia producer,The Newseum, Washington, D.C.
#Klos, Diana Mitsu, senior project director, American Society of News Editors, Reston, Va.
#Lawton, Beth, Newspaper Association of America
#Lewis, Charles, director, Investigative Reporting Workshop at American Univ. / founder, Center for Public Integrity, Washington, D.C.
#Lewis, Pat, [http://www.hopestreetgroup.org/about Hope Street Group],
#Lerner, Richard, CEO, [http://www.clickshare.com/aboutus Clickshare Service Corp.], Amherst, Mass.
#Luecke, Pame, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va.
#[http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/cs/ContentServer/jrn/1165270069757/JRN_Profile_C/1175373607703/JRNFacultyDetail.htm Lundberg, Kirsten,] director, Case Studies Initiative, Columbia Univ. Graduate School of Journalism, New York, N.Y.
#[http://alum.mit.edu/news/AlumniProfiles/Archive/Matt_Mankins_SM_-2703.jsp Mankins, Matt,] CEO/founder, [http://www.slideshare.net/mankins/inamoon-overview InAMoon.com,] Cambridge, Mass. [http://www.slideshare.net/mankins/inamoon-overview (OVERVIEW)]
#[http://my.wemediacommunity.org/profile/MattMansfield Mansfield, Matt,] co-director, Washington Program, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University
#[http://www.gwu.edu/~smpa/faculty/albert_may.cfm May, Albert L.,,] associate professor of media and public affairs, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
#Mills, R. Dean, dean, Missouri School of Journalism, Columbia, Mo.
#[http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/content/6861.cfm Peskin, Mary,] associate director, American Press Institute, Reston, Va.
#O'Dwyer, John, [http://www.odwyerpr.com/site_info/advertising.htm O'dwyer's PR News,] New York
#[http://www.turnerstrategies.com/content/view/82/45/ Pan, Gloria,] vice president, Turner Strategies Inc., Washington, D.C.
#Paulson, Tom, freelance writer, Seattle, Wash. (former science/medical reporter, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
#[http://ifocos.org/2006/12/22/bio-dale-peskin/ Peskin, Dale,] co-founder and managing director, iFOCOS We Media, Reston, Va.
#[http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/pages/apinews/api_news_releases/mary_peskin_joins_api_as_assoc/ Peskin, Mary,] associate director, American Press Institute, Reston, Va.
#[http://pia.gmu.edu/faculty_staff/bio.php?fname=Paul&lname=Posner Posner, Paul,] director, Masters in Public Administration program, George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
#Rabb, Christopher, fellow, Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
#[http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/departments/journalism/faculty/rosenberg.html Rosenberg, Geanne,] jouranlism professor, Baruch University, New York
#Schecker, Fred, Stateline.org, Pew Center on States, Washington, D.C.
#[http://www.lee.net/aboutlee/bios.shtml Schermer, Greg,] vp-interactive, Lee Enterprises Inc., Davenport, Iowa [http://informationvalet.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/blueprint-summit-lee-enterprises-greg-schermer-sets-the-stage/ (DECEMBER VIDEO)]
#Schreiber, Ernie, editor, ''Lancaster New Era,'' Lancaster Newspapers Inc., Lancaster, Pa. (also chair, Pennsylvania Society of Newspaper Editors)
#Shackelford, Tiffany, Phase2 Technology (former director, Online News Association)
#Steiner, Marc B., the [http://www.steinershow.org/about/cem Mark Steiner Show] at the [http://cem.ucf.edu/ Center for Emerging Media,] University of Central Florida, Orlando, Fla.
#Sussman, Emily, graduate researcher, Missouri School of Journalism, Columbia, Mo.
#Terry, Charles, principal, [http://www.www.CWTgroup.net the CWT Group,] Washington, D.C.
#Thompson, Jeanne, Green Springfield, Springfield, Va.
#Tisdale, John, Associate Director, Schieffer School of Journalism, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas
#[http://www.parity.com/team.html#paul Trevithick, Paul,] ceo, Azigo Inc./chairman [http://www.informationcard.net Information Card Foundation,] Newton, Mass.
#[http://www.turnerstrategies.com/content/view/82/45/ Turner, Suzanne,] president, [http://www.turnerstrategies.com/content/view/79/43/ Turner Strategies Inc.,] Washington, D.C.
#[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-participants-vanderclute Vander Clute, Jeff,] founder Semesphere Inc. / consultant, [http://www.infovalet.org Information Valet Project,] Palo Alto, Calif.
#Wei, Jiyan, PRWeb, Washington, D.C.
#Wilkins, Lee, professor, Missouri School of Journalism, Columbia, Mo.
#Wittstock, Melinda, founder/editor, [http://www.cncnews.org Capitol News Connection,] Washington, D.C.
#Zeck, Denise, executive director, [http://www.mediaforum.org/about.cfm The American Forum], Washington, D.C.

Gwu-participants

2009-04-29T15:44:29Z

216.106.40.187:

Gwu-participants

2009-04-29T15:42:38Z

216.106.40.187:

Gwu-participants

2009-04-29T15:00:57Z

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Gwu-participants

2009-04-29T11:46:30Z

216.106.40.187: /* AN URGENT DISCUSSION:"From Gatekeeper to Information Valet:Work Plans for Sustaining Journalism" */

Gwu-program

2009-04-28T12:16:20Z

216.106.40.187:

[[Image:Gwu-smpa.jpg|frame|left|[GWU SMPA Building]]]

=AN URGENT DISCUSSION:<BR><BR>"From Gatekeeper to Information Valet:<br><br>Work Plans for Sustaining Journalism"=
===Wed., May 27, 2009 / 10 a.m.-4 p.m. / The George Washington University / Jack Morton Auditorium / 805 21st Street NW / Washington D.C.===
[[Image:Rji-ideas.jpg|thumb|150px|right|[http://rji.missouri.edu/image-library/stories/new-building/index.php RJI PICTURED]]]
[[Image:Rji-working.jpg|thumb|150px|right|[http://rji.missouri.edu/vision-and-mission/index.php THE RJI VISION]]]
<hr><h3>[https://extweb.missouri.edu/NewWebReg/Login.aspx?uid=3&pid=112389 REGISTER NOW ($55/full day; $30 half day)]</h3><hr>

==Tentative Program and Schedule==

(Times and presenters subject to change / check this page for last-minute updates)

===''9 a.m. -- Pre-event coffee/danish and discussion''===
<ul>
* Connect early with other participants/attendees and presenters over coffee and danish from 9 a.m.
</ul>

===10 a.m. -- Inaugural Briefing: The Journalism Innovation Engine===
<ul>
*With the intention of broadly collaborating with other institutions and enterprises, the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism is seeding a Journalism Innovation Engine at RJI. It's a one-year, "do-tank" to discover, assess, integrate and deploy multiple revenue solutions for the news industry across multiple platforms. Learn about the ideas and people behind the Engine in a short briefing and an interactive idea-gathering session. (Discussion leaders: [http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-participants-langeveld Martin Langeveld] / [http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-participants-vanderclute Jeff Vander Clute)] </ul>

===10:30 a.m. -- The Strategic Landscape: A briefing ===
<ul>
*RJI commissioned former journalist and noted payments-industry analyst and consultant to comprehensively study the best research on mobile, print and web marketplaces to paint a picture from a non-news-industry perspective of strategies for sustaining journalism. Be prepared for some surprises in this thought-provoking discussion. </ul>
[[Image:Gwu-lobby.jpg|frame|left|[SMPA break-out space]]]

===11 a.m. -- Work in progress: The Information in Valet Project===
<ul>
*Moving from mass markets to mass customization, from gatekeeper to "information valet" is an urgent task for traditional print and broadcast news organizations. Reynolds Fellow [http://rji.missouri.edu/projects/info-valet/index.php Bill Densmore,] InfoCard's [http://www.parity.com/team.html#paul Paul Trevithick] and other collaborators present a work-in-progress concept solution addressing user privacy, interest-based advertising, customized news and multi-site subscription networks -- including a proposed launch timetable. What's missing? A Q&A follows. </ul>

===11:45 a.m. -- The Wall of ideas: Tapping the wisdom of our crowd ===
<ul>
*The Jack Morton Auditorium and adjacent foyer offers the space during lunch for participants to caucus and agree on critical topics to propose for discussion during one round of concurrent, group-called breakout sessions in the afternoon. We'll describe how the convening process works before serving a box lunch. But first, we'll ask everyone in the room: What are you working on?</ul>

===12:15-1 p.m. -- BOX LUNCH -- A chance to network ideas, and post breakouts ===
<ul>
*Post discussion topics on the News Wall, and negotiate with fellow convenors to combine or morph related topics.</ul>

===1 p.m. -- The Value of privacy: Findings from a new national study -- Prof. Lee Wilkins===
<ul>
*As the public becomes more aware of how its time and attention is "monetized," what are citizens willing to trade for the privacy, and how is it valued? Missouri School of Journalism Prof. Lee Wilkins reveals results from a new national study completed in in early April. </ul>

===1:45 p.m. -- "GAME ON! Aggregators vs. Newspapers and the Future of Online News"===
<ul>
*Missouri School of Journalism grad student Emily Sussman previews her forthcoming multimedia project about past, present and future experiments with paywalls and portals. Topics: What is Steve Brill's "Journalism Online LLC"? . . . Do the financial distress of The News York Times and other newspaper companies necessarily doom them? . . . . Why did the '90s collaboration New Century Network fail? . . . are Google, Huffington Post and Newser really parasites? A Q&A follows.'''</ul>

===2:15 p.m. -- QUICK-SHARE BRIEFINGS===
Briefings are five-minute updates to share knowledge on key projects, ideas and technologies ongoing concurrently.
<ul>
*Charles "Chuck" Lewis, American University, founder Center for Public Integrity -- "Update on formation and funding of non-profit national and regional investigative journalism initiatives."
*James "Jay" Hamilton, Duke University, author ''All the News That's Fit to Sell'' -- "Concepts for trading of privacy as an economic good."
*Jane Stevens, Reynolds Journalism Institute, "The RJI Collaboratory."
*Curtis Gans, "Saving the Newspaper at the Center of Civic Literacy."
</ul>
[[Image:Gwu-floortwo.jpg|frame|right|[lobby / breakout space]]]

[[Image:Gwu-morton.jpg|frame|left|[Jack Morton Auditorium in use]]]
<hr><h3>[http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jta BACK TO HOME PAGE]</H3><HR>

===2:30 p.m. -- Discussion and snack break -- preparing for breakouts ===
<ul>
*Five briefings in four hours: It's time to connect the dots, assess options and get ready for a flight of breakout sessions.</ul>

=== 2:45 p.m -- Self-identified convenors call their 2-5 breakouts===
<ul>
*Breakouts disperse within Jack Morton, the atrium and other designated spaces. The goal: Formulate recommendations and ideas for action for the Innovation Engine, the InfoValet Project and the general journalism community. Return with three ideas and at least one proposed action step. </ul>

=== 3:30 p.m. -- What we've learned / Next steps===
<ul>
*Our breakout session scribes return and present -- A fast, faciliated "what have we learned" and "next steps" session. (Bill Densmore)
*Joining the Journalism Trust initiative</ul>
<br><hr>[http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jta RETURN TO HOME PAGE]
<h3>[https://extweb.missouri.edu/NewWebReg/Login.aspx?uid=3&pid=112389 REGISTER NOW ($55/full day; $30 half day)]</h3><hr>
====Lodging reservations====

For lodging, you may book a room at the special rate of $189/night, plus tax, at the university-owned [http://www.gwuinn.com/ George Washington University Inn,] 824 New Hampshire Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20037. This "Reynolds Journalism Institute" rate is only available up request by telephoning the GWU Inn reservation desk directly at (202) 337-6620. The Inn offers complimentary Internet Access wire or wireless. Its lobby-located Notti Bianche restaurant is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. (A box lunch on Wednesday, May 27, is included in the symposium schedule and registration fee).

For more information [mailto:densmorew@rjionline.org email] Bill Densmore, 2008-2009 Reynolds Fellow, or call 573-882-9812.

<hr>
<big>"We need many news organizations to keep our country strong. We need to help each other. We need to <b>partner,</b> we need to <b>experiment</b> and we need to accept and agree that we will continue, we will not accept failure and we need to keep trying and <b>trying different models</b> until we get it right."</big> <LI> Vivian Schiller, CEO of National Public Radio, March 30, 2009, at the [http://www.newsvision.org NewsVision Conference.]<br>
<P>
<big>In a March 16 Time Magazine story about the Project on Excellence in Journalism's 2009 "State of the News Media," report, M.J. Stephey wrote: " . . . (I)f solutions aren't obvious, the report's overall message is: <b>Will the future leaders of journalism please stand up?"</b></big>

Gwu-participants

2009-04-17T11:38:37Z

216.106.40.187: /* AN URGENT DISCUSSION:"From Gatekeeper to Information Valet:A Workplan for Sustaining Journalism" */

[[Image:Gwu-smpa.jpg|frame|left|[GWU SMPA Building]]]

=AN URGENT DISCUSSION:<BR><BR>"From Gatekeeper to Information Valet:<br><br>A Workplan for Sustaining Journalism"=
===Wed., May 27, 2009 / 10 a.m.-4 p.m. / The George Washington University / Jack Morton Auditorium / 805 21st Street NW / Washington D.C.===
[[Image:Rji-ideas.jpg|thumb|150px|right|[http://rji.missouri.edu/image-library/stories/new-building/index.php RJI PICTURED]]]
[[Image:Rji-working.jpg|thumb|150px|right|[http://rji.missouri.edu/vision-and-mission/index.php THE RJI VISION]]]
<hr><h3>[http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Gwu-program VIEW PROGRAM] / [https://extweb.missouri.edu/NewWebReg/Login.aspx?uid=3&pid=112389 REGISTER NOW]</h3>
==WHO'S COMING?==
<i>preregistered</i>

*[http://newshare.typepad.com/about.html Densmore, Bill,] 2008-2009 fellow, Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, Columbia, Mo.
*Hamilton, James "Jay", professor, director, DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, Duke University, Durham, N.C.
*Harmon, Greg, CEO, Belden Interactive, San Francisco, Calif.
*Hart, Jonathan D., partner, Dow Lohnes PLLC, Washington, D.C.
*[http://www.gwu.edu/~smpa/faculty/LeeHuebner.cfm Huebner, Lee,] director, School of Media & Public Affairs, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
*Lewis, Charles, founder, Center for Public Integrity / professor, American University, Washington, D.C.
*[http://my.wemediacommunity.org/profile/MattMansfield Mansfield, Matt,] co-director, Washington Program, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University
*Mills, R. Dean, dean, Missouri School of Journalism, Columbia, Mo.
*Sussman, Emily, graduate researcher, Missouri School of Journalism, Columbia, Mo.
*Terry, Charles, principal, [http://www.www.CWTgroup.net the CWT Group,] Washington, D.C.
*Wilkins, Lee, professor, Missouri School of Journalism, Columbia, Mo.

Gwu-program

2009-04-16T12:49:38Z

216.106.40.187:

[[Image:Gwu-smpa.jpg|frame|left|[GWU SMPA Building]]]

=AN URGENT DISCUSSION:<BR><BR>"From Gatekeeper to Information Valet:<br><br>Work Plans for Sustaining Journalism"=
===Wed., May 27, 2009 / 10 a.m.-4 p.m. / The George Washington University / Jack Morton Auditorium / 805 21st Street NW / Washington D.C.===
[[Image:Rji-ideas.jpg|thumb|150px|right|[http://rji.missouri.edu/image-library/stories/new-building/index.php RJI PICTURED]]]
[[Image:Rji-working.jpg|thumb|150px|right|[http://rji.missouri.edu/vision-and-mission/index.php THE RJI VISION]]]
<hr><h3>[https://extweb.missouri.edu/NewWebReg/Login.aspx?uid=3&pid=112389 REGISTER NOW ($55/full day; $30 half day)]</h3><hr>

==Tentative Program and Schedule==

(Times and presenters subject to change / check this page for last-minute updates)

===''9 a.m. -- Pre-event coffee/danish and discussion''===
<ul>
* Connect early with other participants/attendees and presenters over coffee and danish from 9 a.m.
</ul>

===10 a.m. -- Inaugural Briefing: The Journalism Innovation Engine===
<ul>
*With the intention of broadly collaborating with other institutions and enterprises, the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism is seeding the Journalism Innovation Engine at RJI. It's a one-year, "do-tank" to discover, assess, integrate and deploy multiple revenue solutions for the news industry across multiple platforms. Learn about the ideas and people behind the Engine in a short briefing and an interactive idea-gathering session. (Discussion leaders: [http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-participants-langeveld Martin Langeveld] / [http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-participants-vanderclute Jeff Vander Clute)] </ul>

===10:30 a.m. -- The Strategic Landscape: A briefing ===
<ul>
*RJI commissioned former journalist and noted payments-industry analyst and consultant to comprehensively study the best research on mobile, print and web marketplaces to paint a picture from a non-news-industry perspective of strategies for sustaining journalism. Be prepared for some surprises in this thought-provoking discussion. </ul>
[[Image:Gwu-lobby.jpg|frame|left|[SMPA break-out space]]]

===11 a.m. -- Work in progress: The Information in Valet Project===
<ul>
*Moving from mass markets to mass customization, from gatekeeper to "information valet" is an urgent task for traditional print and broadcast news organizations. Reynolds Fellow [http://rji.missouri.edu/projects/info-valet/index.php Bill Densmore,] InfoCard's [http://www.parity.com/team.html#paul Paul Trevithick] and other collaborators present a work-in-progress concept solution addressing user privacy, interest-based advertising, customized news and multi-site subscription networks -- including a proposed launch timetable. What's missing? A Q&A follows. </ul>

===11:45 a.m. -- The Wall of ideas: Tapping the wisdom of our crowd ===
<ul>
*The Jack Morton Auditorium and adjacent foyer offers the space during lunch for participants to caucus and agree on critical topics to propose for discussion during one round of concurrent, group-called breakout sessions in the afternoon. We'll describe how the convening process works before serving a box lunch. But first, we'll ask everyone in the room: What are you working on?</ul>

===12:15-1 p.m. -- BOX LUNCH -- A chance to network ideas, and post breakouts ===
<ul>
*Post discussion topics on the News Wall, and negotiate with fellow convenors to combine or morph related topics.</ul>

===1 p.m. -- The Value of privacy: Findings from a new national study -- Prof. Lee Wilkins===
<ul>
*As the public becomes more aware of how its time and attention is "monetized," what are citizens willing to trade for the privacy, and how is it valued? Missouri School of Journalism Prof. Lee Wilkins reveals results from a new national study completed in in early April. </ul>

===1:45 p.m. -- The value of information: The Internet's 14-year flirtation with "paying for content"===
<ul>
*Missouri School of Journalism graduate researcher Emily Sussman quickly previews her forthcoming paper surveying 14 years of experiments aimed at finding a new source of online revenue for news besides advertisements. Have any ideas worked? Remember the New Century Network? What do pioneers think today? What has been the impact on news? '''A Q&A follows.'''</ul>

===2:15 p.m. -- QUICK-SHARE BRIEFINGS===
Briefings are 10-minute updates to share knowledge on key projects, ideas and technologies ongoing concurrently.
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*Charles "Chuck" Lewis, American University, founder Center for Public Integrity -- "Update on formation and funding of non-profit national and regional investigative journalism initiatives."
*James "Jay" Hamilton, Duke University, author ''All the News That's Fit to Sell'' -- "Concepts for trading of privacy as an economic good."
*Jane Stevens, Reynolds Journalism Institute, "The RJI Collaboratory."
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===2:30 p.m. -- Discussion and snack break -- preparing for breakouts ===
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=== 2:45 p.m -- Self-identified convenors call their 2-5 breakouts===
<ul>
*Breakouts disperse within Jack Morton, the atrium and other designated spaces. The goal: Formulate recommendations and ideas for action for the Innovation Engine, the InfoValet Project and the general journalism community. Return with three ideas and at least one proposed action step. </ul>

=== 3:30 p.m. -- What we've learned / Next steps===
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*Our breakout session scribes return and present -- A fast, faciliated "what have we learned" and "next steps" session. (Bill Densmore)
*Joining the Journalism Trust initiative</ul>
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*Harmon, Greg, CEO, Belden Interactive, San Francisco, Calif.
*Hart, Jonathan D., partner, Dow Lohnes PLLC, Washington, D.C.
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Creed-walter-williams

2009-04-02T03:36:55Z

216.106.40.187:

''Bill Densmore's running notes on the April 1, 2009 conversation: "What Would Walter Williams Say?" at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute. “WW” means Walter Williams.'' <hr>

RON FARRAR thinks it is a mistake to blame it all on the Internet. Smaller newspapers are doing OK. They have lost only 2% circulation.

Williams would put it in context “and I think he would go beyond blaming it on technology. I think WW would say one of the major problems is that much of the audience, especially the larger papers, no longer trusts what it reads or sees.”

He thinks WW would be appalled by the liberal bias he would see in much of the media. He thinks WW would be amazed how many people “have been pushed into the clutches of Rush Limbaugh.” He says Fox news dominates radio and TV.

He says Williams was extremely liberal in his own time. “Key words, fairness and accuracy. I think those are missing.”

DEAN MILLS: “I’ve given up trying to channel Walter Williams.” But every morning he thinks: “Please don’t screw it up today.”

“I think he would have embraced enthusiastically the new technologies and would have tried to think about how to use them to produce better journalism . . . and about how to support democracies . . .. “

MILLS: “I guess I ma not as convinced as Ron that he would have been all that alarmed by what we call the MSM covers the news.” There have always been biases, even in WW’s time from the right and the left. Main objective “is to try to sort that out as much as possible and get rid of that as much as possible.”

FARRAR: “The people who switch over to Fox News and Rush Limbaugh are in many cases just trading one bias for another.”

MILLS: To [some] extend, they have lost connection with who their audiences . . . [he hopes] the new technologies will help us solve that problem.

FANCHER: Students have talked about that lack of connection.

FARRAR: A second point he would bring up: Civility. For all his determination, “nobody was more tenacious, than WW with all he went through to found this school and yet throughout it all he was very much courteous, a gentleman. I think we’ve lost some of that.”

Tells the story about Joan Kroc. “It was a smart ale-y story. What I’m saying is WW would have found a way to get that story in the paper without alienating everybody in the town.” Yet, “not to have that story in the paper would have been inexcusable.”

MILLS: Because of Drudge: “Responsible media now have to react to rumors . . . because it’s in the conversation.”

FARRAR: “First, you gotta like the country. You can’t be condescending in your copy.” “I think WW had great respect for the community in which he lived and the people he was writing to and for.”

MILLS: “To me this is much more important than a liberal or conservative bias – there is kind of a smart alecky bias – a sort of condescension . . . and it is off putting to people.”

FANCHER: Notes that in his conversations with some of the other RJI Fellows that is some evidence that the journalism on the web is more solution oriented than “gotcha” oriented.

FARRAR: WW was a deeply religious man. "This was another example of the way that WW was very much in tune with the community and he shared the values of the community ... he was very much like the people he was writing to ... how often have you heard people say that journalists are out of touch with their audiences?"

FANCHER: What would Williams say about the timeliness of the Creed today?

FARRAR: "I think he might feel it was a little dated."

MILLS: "There is a kind of professional culture among journalists that makes fun of itself. It's part of newsroom culture, as I'm sure you know, a kind of self-deprecatory nature. I think we have sometimes sabotaged ourselves by giving the impression that journalism is a craft, not a profession." Williams fought for that. "It is easy to forget now what a hard fight that was [for him.]" Placing education of it in the university was aimed at fighting that.

==Question-and-Answer period==

Q: Will you recommend changing the creed?

FANCHER: "If I were to change the Journalists Creed in anyway, it would be to add one word: Still . . . because that moves it forward." I think if Walter Williams were here today he would be talking about how do you renew it ... renew the spirit of what does it mean to us and how does it sustain itself."

Q: How would WW react to the stridency in the land? Would he give everyone a voice?

FARRAR: "You can't say who can right and who can't. Anybody can write. You just have to hope that the public is smart enough to separate what is sourced ... and I am not confident that the public is doing that."

MILL: Reporting on ordinary people can be done in a done that does not convey disrespect.

Q: Notes that the new editor of the Wall Street Journal is urging in a memo to his staff to get it first above all else. How would WW view a journalist's need for urgency vs. the need to be accurate?

FARRAR: "Mr. Murdoch's influence is being felt on the WSJ."

MILLS: Journalism has always been a compromise ... between urgency, getting things fast and getting it right ... the false note in that editor's language is if I heard it right, is above all else. Urgency is not above all else, accuracy is not above all else."

Q: WW makes no reference to objectivity in the Creed, but he talks about writing only what you believe is true. Was he giving credence to today's pundits or speaking more to the idea of verifiable truth.

FARRAR: "I'm a little uncomfortable with that line in the Creed." He raises a question about that. Particularly when you cover politicians, and the politician says one thing, "I’m not sure it is up to the reporter to call the politician a liar. I don't think I would agree completely with that. I think it is unconscionable for a reporter to print a lie."

===What about the metaphor "volunteer journalist?"===

Q: (didn't get it)

A: "Many if not the great majority of so-called citizen journalists don't really want to be journalists. They want to be citizen opinionators. I think the answer to that is that's fine ... but those who genuinely want to take part in the journalistic process as journalists, getting facts out, those have to start ascribing to some of the same principles that journalists do." He talked to Jackie and the metaphor of volunteer firemen. "I think the metaphor of volunteer journalists" is better.

Q: How do you revamp the Creed's expectations to today's technology?

MILLS: "I don't think it affects at all the basic principles ... of being fair and honest ... I think where it becomes importance is how that plays out ... you have to expect the public journal as a metaphor for all news media."

FARRAR: “I think a Creed that is enforceable has to be voluntary.”

MILLS: Williams probably saw professional journalism education as a proxy for certification.

Q: How would WW view entertainment news?

FARRAR: He would be generally OK with it. “I think he might question the priorities, too much soft news and so forth.”

MILLS: “Good newspapers always ran entertain as a part of news.”

Q: With multimedia technology and speed, how can a journalist follow clear statement?

FARRAR: “I think they have to have support from the top.”

MILLS: “I see an AP reporter out there. I think The AP is a great training ground for clear thinking.”

Q: When should people have to start following the Creed? How do you separate the teen-age blogger from the journalist?

FARRAR: Says some of that is inevitable.

MILLS: “Some of this stuff is going to sort itself out. The public will sort it out … much of the public smart enough to figure out the difference between a teen-age blogger … and it doesn’t even require that the teen-age blog to come from an unknown source.”

Q: What about crowd sourcing?

MILLS: “I think it is great.” He talks about Minnesota Public Radio’s Public Insight Journalism.

Q: is it enough to hope for public to discern quality journalism? Does it need to be taught in schools, or elsewhere?

FARRAR: “There’s an awful lot of misperception. You see stories gathered now and people judge reporters’ behavior. It’s always been like that, we just haven’t been able to see it … I think the public is becoming increasingly more sophisticated. I hope they can do some sorting.

MILL: I hope people will sort it out. But I don’t think that is enough. New literacy is trying to teach citizens to be good judges. I think that is important.

FANCHER: Observes that increasingly journalists will work outside newsrooms and so they have to be responsible for their own accountability.

Q: Do we do too much scare news?

FARRAR: "News itself is scary."

MILLS: "We have a tendency, all of us to think there was some golden age of journalism." He remembers reading a biography of H.L. Mencken at the Baltimore Evening Sun. He tells in his biography how in Baltimore he and his friends concocted the monster of North Baltimore, just to create good news copy. "Sensationalism has always been with us and probably always will be.

Q: Some journalists didn't go to J-school. What would WW say about this?

FARRAR: "Some of the brightest people in our field never darkened the door of a journalism school ... to say this is the only path to success is wrong."

MILLS: "My guess would be that he probably would be disappointed with that ... the reality is that there are many great journalists who don't have journalism degrees, they learned it newsrooms or they have great minds ... that lead them to be great journalists ... statistics do show that many of the journalists practicing" have degrees -- it is a leg up.

FARRAR: WW never went to college himself. He was on the Board of Curators at the University of Missouri. But WW "had the perhaps naive idea that a university could do anything [for a person.] I think he may have been blinded a little bit by that idealism."

MILLS: He cites a biography of Walter Williams. "He tracked down what had always been a great mystery up." WW highest degree was an honorary high school diploma awarded him from the Booneville High School by the city fathers.

Q: What would WW say about The Daily Show?

FARRAR: "I know that in certain families the one unforgivable sin was to take yourself too seriously. I think a certain amount of that is good. When it comes to the point of putting down your own profession I think that is too bad." AT Indiana University, where he teaches, there is an old piano in the annual gridiron-dinner room. They song goes, "There is no ism like journalism." There is a fierce price.

MILLS: There used to be a journalism follies in Missouri.

WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT: He was about 5-foot-6 with elevated shoes and held himself upright. "He thought the Bible was one of the greatest tools of journalists and Moses was one of the greatest editors of all times.

===A closing thought===

FANCHER: Gregory Favre made a statement that every person who ever worked in a newsroom is connected to everyone who has ever worked in a newsroom. He cites four people in tonight's video who are no longer with us (will insert names later).

Creed-walter-williams

2009-04-02T03:36:23Z

216.106.40.187:

''Bill Densmore's running notes on tonight's conversation: "What Would Walter Williams Say?" at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute. “WW” means Walter Williams.'' <hr>

RON FARRAR thinks it is a mistake to blame it all on the Internet. Smaller newspapers are doing OK. They have lost only 2% circulation.

Williams would put it in context “and I think he would go beyond blaming it on technology. I think WW would say one of the major problems is that much of the audience, especially the larger papers, no longer trusts what it reads or sees.”

He thinks WW would be appalled by the liberal bias he would see in much of the media. He thinks WW would be amazed how many people “have been pushed into the clutches of Rush Limbaugh.” He says Fox news dominates radio and TV.

He says Williams was extremely liberal in his own time. “Key words, fairness and accuracy. I think those are missing.”

DEAN MILLS: “I’ve given up trying to channel Walter Williams.” But every morning he thinks: “Please don’t screw it up today.”

“I think he would have embraced enthusiastically the new technologies and would have tried to think about how to use them to produce better journalism . . . and about how to support democracies . . .. “

MILLS: “I guess I ma not as convinced as Ron that he would have been all that alarmed by what we call the MSM covers the news.” There have always been biases, even in WW’s time from the right and the left. Main objective “is to try to sort that out as much as possible and get rid of that as much as possible.”

FARRAR: “The people who switch over to Fox News and Rush Limbaugh are in many cases just trading one bias for another.”

MILLS: To [some] extend, they have lost connection with who their audiences . . . [he hopes] the new technologies will help us solve that problem.

FANCHER: Students have talked about that lack of connection.

FARRAR: A second point he would bring up: Civility. For all his determination, “nobody was more tenacious, than WW with all he went through to found this school and yet throughout it all he was very much courteous, a gentleman. I think we’ve lost some of that.”

Tells the story about Joan Kroc. “It was a smart ale-y story. What I’m saying is WW would have found a way to get that story in the paper without alienating everybody in the town.” Yet, “not to have that story in the paper would have been inexcusable.”

MILLS: Because of Drudge: “Responsible media now have to react to rumors . . . because it’s in the conversation.”

FARRAR: “First, you gotta like the country. You can’t be condescending in your copy.” “I think WW had great respect for the community in which he lived and the people he was writing to and for.”

MILLS: “To me this is much more important than a liberal or conservative bias – there is kind of a smart alecky bias – a sort of condescension . . . and it is off putting to people.”

FANCHER: Notes that in his conversations with some of the other RJI Fellows that is some evidence that the journalism on the web is more solution oriented than “gotcha” oriented.

FARRAR: WW was a deeply religious man. "This was another example of the way that WW was very much in tune with the community and he shared the values of the community ... he was very much like the people he was writing to ... how often have you heard people say that journalists are out of touch with their audiences?"

FANCHER: What would Williams say about the timeliness of the Creed today?

FARRAR: "I think he might feel it was a little dated."

MILLS: "There is a kind of professional culture among journalists that makes fun of itself. It's part of newsroom culture, as I'm sure you know, a kind of self-deprecatory nature. I think we have sometimes sabotaged ourselves by giving the impression that journalism is a craft, not a profession." Williams fought for that. "It is easy to forget now what a hard fight that was [for him.]" Placing education of it in the university was aimed at fighting that.

==Question-and-Answer period==

Q: Will you recommend changing the creed?

FANCHER: "If I were to change the Journalists Creed in anyway, it would be to add one word: Still . . . because that moves it forward." I think if Walter Williams were here today he would be talking about how do you renew it ... renew the spirit of what does it mean to us and how does it sustain itself."

Q: How would WW react to the stridency in the land? Would he give everyone a voice?

FARRAR: "You can't say who can right and who can't. Anybody can write. You just have to hope that the public is smart enough to separate what is sourced ... and I am not confident that the public is doing that."

MILL: Reporting on ordinary people can be done in a done that does not convey disrespect.

Q: Notes that the new editor of the Wall Street Journal is urging in a memo to his staff to get it first above all else. How would WW view a journalist's need for urgency vs. the need to be accurate?

FARRAR: "Mr. Murdoch's influence is being felt on the WSJ."

MILLS: Journalism has always been a compromise ... between urgency, getting things fast and getting it right ... the false note in that editor's language is if I heard it right, is above all else. Urgency is not above all else, accuracy is not above all else."

Q: WW makes no reference to objectivity in the Creed, but he talks about writing only what you believe is true. Was he giving credence to today's pundits or speaking more to the idea of verifiable truth.

FARRAR: "I'm a little uncomfortable with that line in the Creed." He raises a question about that. Particularly when you cover politicians, and the politician says one thing, "I’m not sure it is up to the reporter to call the politician a liar. I don't think I would agree completely with that. I think it is unconscionable for a reporter to print a lie."

===What about the metaphor "volunteer journalist?"===

Q: (didn't get it)

A: "Many if not the great majority of so-called citizen journalists don't really want to be journalists. They want to be citizen opinionators. I think the answer to that is that's fine ... but those who genuinely want to take part in the journalistic process as journalists, getting facts out, those have to start ascribing to some of the same principles that journalists do." He talked to Jackie and the metaphor of volunteer firemen. "I think the metaphor of volunteer journalists" is better.

Q: How do you revamp the Creed's expectations to today's technology?

MILLS: "I don't think it affects at all the basic principles ... of being fair and honest ... I think where it becomes importance is how that plays out ... you have to expect the public journal as a metaphor for all news media."

FARRAR: “I think a Creed that is enforceable has to be voluntary.”

MILLS: Williams probably saw professional journalism education as a proxy for certification.

Q: How would WW view entertainment news?

FARRAR: He would be generally OK with it. “I think he might question the priorities, too much soft news and so forth.”

MILLS: “Good newspapers always ran entertain as a part of news.”

Q: With multimedia technology and speed, how can a journalist follow clear statement?

FARRAR: “I think they have to have support from the top.”

MILLS: “I see an AP reporter out there. I think The AP is a great training ground for clear thinking.”

Q: When should people have to start following the Creed? How do you separate the teen-age blogger from the journalist?

FARRAR: Says some of that is inevitable.

MILLS: “Some of this stuff is going to sort itself out. The public will sort it out … much of the public smart enough to figure out the difference between a teen-age blogger … and it doesn’t even require that the teen-age blog to come from an unknown source.”

Q: What about crowd sourcing?

MILLS: “I think it is great.” He talks about Minnesota Public Radio’s Public Insight Journalism.

Q: is it enough to hope for public to discern quality journalism? Does it need to be taught in schools, or elsewhere?

FARRAR: “There’s an awful lot of misperception. You see stories gathered now and people judge reporters’ behavior. It’s always been like that, we just haven’t been able to see it … I think the public is becoming increasingly more sophisticated. I hope they can do some sorting.

MILL: I hope people will sort it out. But I don’t think that is enough. New literacy is trying to teach citizens to be good judges. I think that is important.

FANCHER: Observes that increasingly journalists will work outside newsrooms and so they have to be responsible for their own accountability.

Q: Do we do too much scare news?

FARRAR: "News itself is scary."

MILLS: "We have a tendency, all of us to think there was some golden age of journalism." He remembers reading a biography of H.L. Mencken at the Baltimore Evening Sun. He tells in his biography how in Baltimore he and his friends concocted the monster of North Baltimore, just to create good news copy. "Sensationalism has always been with us and probably always will be.

Q: Some journalists didn't go to J-school. What would WW say about this?

FARRAR: "Some of the brightest people in our field never darkened the door of a journalism school ... to say this is the only path to success is wrong."

MILLS: "My guess would be that he probably would be disappointed with that ... the reality is that there are many great journalists who don't have journalism degrees, they learned it newsrooms or they have great minds ... that lead them to be great journalists ... statistics do show that many of the journalists practicing" have degrees -- it is a leg up.

FARRAR: WW never went to college himself. He was on the Board of Curators at the University of Missouri. But WW "had the perhaps naive idea that a university could do anything [for a person.] I think he may have been blinded a little bit by that idealism."

MILLS: He cites a biography of Walter Williams. "He tracked down what had always been a great mystery up." WW highest degree was an honorary high school diploma awarded him from the Booneville High School by the city fathers.

Q: What would WW say about The Daily Show?

FARRAR: "I know that in certain families the one unforgivable sin was to take yourself too seriously. I think a certain amount of that is good. When it comes to the point of putting down your own profession I think that is too bad." AT Indiana University, where he teaches, there is an old piano in the annual gridiron-dinner room. They song goes, "There is no ism like journalism." There is a fierce price.

MILLS: There used to be a journalism follies in Missouri.

WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT: He was about 5-foot-6 with elevated shoes and held himself upright. "He thought the Bible was one of the greatest tools of journalists and Moses was one of the greatest editors of all times.

===A closing thought===

FANCHER: Gregory Favre made a statement that every person who ever worked in a newsroom is connected to everyone who has ever worked in a newsroom. He cites four people in tonight's video who are no longer with us (will insert names later).

Creed-walter-williams

2009-04-02T03:29:39Z

216.106.40.187:

Bill Densmore's running notes on tonight's conversation: "What Would Walter Williams Say?" at the Donald W. Reynolds Jouranalism Institute. Typos will be cleaned up later in the evening!

Ron Farrar thinks it is a mistake to blame it all on the Internet.

Smaller newspapers are doing OK. They have lost only 2% circulation.

Williams would put it in context “and I think he would go beyond blaming it on technology. I think WW would say one of the major problems is that much of the audience, especially the larger papers, no longer trusts what it reads or sees.”

He thinks WW would be appalled by the liberal bias he would see in much of the media. He thinks WW would be amazed how many people “have been pushed into the clutches of Rush Limbaugh.” He says Fox news dominates radio and TV.

He says Williams was extremely liberal in his own time. “Key words, fairness and accuracy. I think those are missing.”

MILLS: “I’ve given up trying to channel Walter Wiliams.” But every morning he thinks: “Please don’t screw it up today.”

“I think he would have embraced enthusiastically the new technologies and would have tried to think about how to use them to produce better journalism . . . and about how to support democracies . . . . “

MILLS: “I guess I ma not as convinced as ron that he would have been all that alarmed by what we call the MSM covers the news.” There have always been biases, even in WW’s time from the right and the left. Main objective “is to try to sort that out as much as possible and get rid of that as much as possible.”

FARRAR: “The people who switch over to Fox News and Rush Limbaugh are in many cases just trading one bias for another.”

MILLS: To [some] extend, they have lost connection with who their audiences . . . [he hopes] the new technologies will help us solve that problem.

FANCHER: Students have talked about that lack of connection.

FARRAR: A second point he would bring up: Civility. For all his determination, “nobody was more tenacious, than WW with all he went through to found this school and yet throughout it all he was very much courteous, a gentleman. I think we’ve lost some of that.”

Tells the story about Joan Kroc. “It was a smart alec story. What I’m saying is WW would have found a way to get that story in the paper without alienating everybody in the town.” Yet, “not to have that story in the paper would have been inexcusable.”

MILLS: Because of Drudge: “Responsible media now have to react to rumors . . . because its in the conversation.”

FARRAR: “First, you gotta like the country. You can’t be condescending in your copy.” “I think WW had great respect for the community in which he lived and the people he was writing to and for.”

MILLS: “To me this is much more important than a liberal or conservative bias – there is kind of a smart alecky bias – a sort of condescension . . . and it is offputting to people.”

FANCHER: Notes that in his conversations with some of the other RJI Fellows, that is some evidence that the journalism on the web is more solution oriented than “gotcha” oriented.

FARRAR: WW was a deeply religious man. "This was another example of the way that WW was very much in tune with the community and he shared the values of the community ... he was very much like the people he was writing to ... how often have you heard people say that journalists are out of touch with their audiences?"

FANCHER: What would Williams say about the timelyness of the Creed today?

FARRAR: "I think he might feel it was a little dated."

MILLS: "There is a kind of professional culture among journalists that makes fun of itself. It's part of newsroom culture, as I'm sure you know, a kind of self-depracatory nature. I think we have sometimes sabotaged ourselves by giving the impression that journalism is a craft, not a profession." Williams fought for that. "It is easy to forget now what a hard fight that was [for him.]" Placing education of it in the university was aimed at fighting that.

==Question-and-Answer period==

Q: Will you recommend changing the creed?

FANCHER: "If I were to change the Journalists Creed in anyway, it would be to add one word: Still . . . because that moves it forward." I think if Walter Williams were here today he would be talking about how do you renew it ... renew the spirit of what does it mean to us and how does it sustain itself."

Q: How would WW react to the stridency in the land? Would he give everyone a voice?

FARRAR: "You can't say who can right and who can't. Anybody can write. You just have to hope that the public is smart enough to separate what is sourced ... and I am not confident that the public is doing that."

MILL: Reporting on ordinary people can be done in a done that does not convey disrespect.

Q: Notes that the new editor of the Wall Street Journal is urging in a memo to his staff to get it first above all else. How would WW view a journalist's need for urgency vs. the need to be accurate?

FARRAR: "Mr. Murdoch's influence is being felt on the WSJ."

MILLS: Journalism has always been a compromise ... between urgency, getting things fast and getting it right ... the false note in that editor's language is if I heard it right, is above all else. Urgency is not above all else, accuracy is not above all else."

Q: WW makes no reference to objectivity in the Creed, but he talks about writing only what you believe is true. Was he giving credence to today's pundits or speaking more to the idea of verifiable truth.

FARRAR: "I'm a little uncomfortable with that line in the Creed." He raises a question about that. Particularly when you cover politicans, and the politician says one thing, "I"m not sure it is up to the reporter to call the politician a liar. I don't think I would agree completely with that. I think it is unconscionable for a reporter to print a lie."

===What about the metaphor "volunteer journalist?"===

Q: (didn't get it)

A: "Many if not the great majority of so-called citizen journalists don't really want to be journalists. They want to be citizen opinionators. I think the answer to that is that's fine ... but those who genuinely want to take part in the jouranlistic process as jouranlists, getting facts out, those have to start ascribing to some of the same principles that journalists do." He talked to Jackie and the methaphor of volunteer firemen. "I think the metaphor of volunteer journalists" is better.

Q: How do you revamp the Creed's expectations to today's technology?

MILLS: "I don't think it affects at all the basic principles ... of being fair and honest ... I think where it becomes importance is how that plays out ... you have to expect the public journal as a metaphor for all news media."

FARRAR: “I think a Creed that is enforceable has to be voluntary.”

MILLS: Williams probably saw professional journalism education as a proxy for certification.

Q: How would WW view entertainment news?

FARRAR: He would be generally OK with it. “I think he might question the priorities, too much soft news and so forth.”

MILLS: “Good newspapers always ran entertain as a part of news.”

Q: With multimedia technology and speed, how can a journalist follow clear statement

FARRAR: “I think they have to have support from the top.”

MILLS: “I see an AP reporter out there. I think The AP is a great training ground for clear thinking.”

Q: When should people have to start following the Creed? How do you separate the teen-age blogger from the journalist

FARRAR: Says some of that is inevitable.

MILLS: “Some of this stuff is going to sort itself out. The public will sort it out … much of the public smart enough to figure out the difference between a teen-age blogger … and it doesn’t even require that the teen-age blog to come from an unknown source.”

Q: What about crowdsourcing?

MILLS: “I think it is great.” He talks about Minnesota Public Radio’s Public Insight Journalism.

Q: is it enough to hope for public to discern quality journalism? Does it need to be taught in schools, or elsewhere?

FARRAR: “There’s an awful lot of misperception. You see stories gathered now and people judge reporters’ behavior. It’s always been like that, we just haven’t been able to see it … I think the public is becoming increasingly more sophisticiated. I hope they can do some sorting.

MILL: I hope people will sort it out. But I don’t think that is enough. New literacy is trying to teach citizens to be good judges. I think that is important.

FANCHER: Observes that increasingly journalists will work outside newsrooms and so they have to be responsible for their own accountability.

Q: Do we do too much scare news?

FARRAR: "News itself is scary."

MILLS: "We have a tendency, all of us to think there was some golden age of jouranalism." He remembers reading a biography of H.L. Mencken at the Baltimore Evening Sun. He tells in his biography how in Baltimore he and his friends concocted the monster of North Baltimore, just to create good news copy. "Sensationalism has always been with us and probably always will be.

Q: Some jouranlists didn't go to J-school. What would WW say about this?

FARRAR: "Some of the brightest people in our field never darkened the door of a a journalism school ... to say this is the only path to success is wrong."

MILLS: "My guess would be that he probably would be disappointed with that ... the reality is that there are many great journalists who don't have journalism degrees, they learned it newsrooms or they have great minds ... that lead them to be great journalists ... statistics do show that many of the journalists practicing" have degrees -- it is a leg up.

FARRAR: WW never went to college himself. He was on the Board of Curators at the University of Missouri. But WW "had the perhaps naive idea that a university could do anything [for a person.] I think he may have been blinded a little bit by that idealism."

MILLS: He cites a biography of Walter Williams. "He tracked down what had always been a great mystery up." WW highest degree was an honorary high school diploma, awarded him from the Booneville High School by the city fathers.

Q: What would say about The Daily Show?

FARRAR: "I know that in certain families the one unforgivable sin was to take yourself too seriously. I think a certain amoutn of that is good. When it comes to the point fo putting down your own profession I think that is too bad." AT Indiana University, where he teaches, there is an old piano in the annual gridiron-dinner room. They song goes, "There is no ism like journalism." There is a fierce price.

MILLS: There used to be a journalism follies in Missouri.

WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT: He was about 5-foot-6 with elevated shoes and held himself upright. "He thought the Bible was one of the greatest tools of journalists and Moses was one of the greatest editors of all times.

===A closing thought===

FANCHER: Gregory Favre made a statement that every person who ever worked in a newsroom is connected to everyone who has ever worked in a newsroom. He cites four people in tonight's video who are no longer with us (will insert names later).