Check this out. I'd like to get a similar conversation going here in Northeast Ohio. Let's move beyond the vitriolic, tired debate between MSM and new media. Who's game for similar conversation in Northeast Ohio?
Scroll down to check out the white board notes with feedback on questions such as:
Who is a journalist?
What is journalism?
What are we trying to grow?
Who are we trying to serve?
What does democracy require?
What is an act of journalism?
Who runs the operation?
What is the culture of the newsroom?
How does it make money?
What do we do now?
Here's Jarvis' take:
I say this is the day that the war ends. This isn’t journalism against bloggers anymore. It never was, really. This is journalists and bloggers together in favor of news.
It was dubbed The NORG Unconference because:
This is an unconference — no speakers, the agenda in the hands of everyone — because, (Philadelphia Daily News Editor Wendy) Warren says, “Whoever’s in the conversation is the right person to have in the conversation.”
UPDATE: Here's the NORG site.
5 comments:
Excellent posts today, Wendy.
We can make it happen.
That was fast, Jill. I just finished getting all the updates posted. :) I've printed off the whiteboard notes for reference. But I think this is just the kind of conversation we need to have in NEO.
Shalom Wendy,
I liked the coining of the word Norg too.
I've been following Jarvis' post on this for the last couple of days.
Did you listen to the speech by the editor of the Guardian?
B'shalom,
Jeff
P., thank you for your kind and thoughtful comments here. I admit that I've not been a Jarvis fan, particularly since seeing him speak at the SPJ convention in NYC in 2004. He has a level of shrieking that is truly obnoxious. It was quite surprising to me to see him involved in something constructive. And I agree that the Advance approach to Web sites has been sorely lacking.
But I think we can jump-start a conversation here that would prove there are people outside of the mainstream who are producing great writing. And if we can get old media to recognize the value of working together, this could transform how we consume news regardless of how it's packaged. Thanks for the support.
Jeff, I've not seen the Guardian speech, but will look it up today. Thanks for stopping by.
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