Daily Archives: March 28, 2008

Do you Know Where Your News Is? Predictions for 2013 by Media Experts:

Posted on March 28, 2008 by vcs

Jonathan Zittrain, co-founder of the Berkman Center, is moderating a panel on the future of news at Berkman’s Media Re:public Forum. The panelists were given two minutes and gave us some soundbites. Paul Steiger is Editor-in-Chief of ProPublica, a non … Continue reading →

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Media Re:public Forum Panel on Participatory Media: Defining Success, Measuring Impact

Posted on March 28, 2008 by vcs

Margaret Duffy is a Professor from the University of Missouri School of Journalism and she is speaking at Berkman’s Media Re:public Forum. She leads a Citizen Media Participation project to create a taxonomy of news categories and get a sense … Continue reading →

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John Kelly: Parsing the Political Blogosphere

Posted on March 28, 2008 by vcs

John Kelly is a doctoral student a Columbia’s School of Communications, a startup founder (Morningside Analytics), as well as doing collaborative work with Berkman. He’s speaking Berkman’s Media Re:public Forum. Kelly says he takes an ecosystem approach to studying the … Continue reading →

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David Weinberger: How new technologies and behaviors are changing the news

Posted on March 28, 2008 by vcs

David Weinberger is a fellow and colleague of mine at the Berkman Center and is at Berkman’s Media Re:public Forum discussing the difference the web is making to journalism: “what’s different about the web when it comes to media and … Continue reading →

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Robert Suro: Defining the qualities of information our democracy needs

Posted on March 28, 2008 by vcs

Robert Suro is a professor of journalism at USC and spoke today at Berkman’s Media Re:public Forum. His talk concerns journalism’s role in democratic processes and he draws two distinctions in how we think about journalism that often get conflated: … Continue reading →

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