Stonybrook - Revision history

Mediag at 14:09, 15 July 2009

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	<hr><h4>~~UPDATE~~: [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Stonybrook-recommendations RECOMMENDATIONS PRESENTED FRIDAY]</H4><HR>		<hr><h4>UPDATES:

			*[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Stonybrook-recommendations RECOMMENDATIONS PRESENTED FRIDAY<br>(includes Knight Foundation remarks; 50-hire plan]
			*[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Stonybrook-mindich David Mindich's Friday AM address about youth and the news]
			*[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Stonybrook-tech-breakout Tech breakout recommendations]</h4><hr>

	~~<hr><h4>UPDATE: [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Stonybrook-mindich David Mindich's Friday AM address about youth and the news]</h4><hr>~~
	Wednesday afternoon's panel:<br>		Wednesday afternoon's panel:<br>

	<h3>What responsibilities do journalists have to educate their own communities?</h3>		<h3>What responsibilities do journalists have to educate their own communities?</h3>

Mediag at 16:49, 13 March 2009

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	~~This~~ afternoon's panel:<br>		<hr><h4>UPDATE: [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Stonybrook-recommendations RECOMMENDATIONS PRESENTED FRIDAY]</H4><HR>

			<hr><h4>UPDATE: [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Stonybrook-mindich David Mindich's Friday AM address about youth and the news]</h4><hr>
			Wednesday afternoon's panel:<br>
	<h3>What responsibilities do journalists have to educate their own communities?</h3>		<h3>What responsibilities do journalists have to educate their own communities?</h3>

Mediag at 18:44, 12 March 2009

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	"Right now because of this horrendous economy that discussion seems to be going on again," said Schiller. "And I still think there has got to be a better way."		"Right now because of this horrendous economy that discussion seems to be going on again," said Schiller. "And I still think there has got to be a better way."

			"Part of the answer is to go to younger people, and younger people are cheaper than older people."

Mediag at 18:39, 12 March 2009

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	WALLACE: "Local news is in big trouble and I don't know the answer. Until the FCC decides to give local stations money to do news, I don't know what the answer is." She said NBC is trying to figure out how to address the huge Hispanic audience. They are looking to have more Hispanic reporters.		WALLACE: "Local news is in big trouble and I don't know the answer. Until the FCC decides to give local stations money to do news, I don't know what the answer is." She said NBC is trying to figure out how to address the huge Hispanic audience. They are looking to have more Hispanic reporters.

	~~KOPPEL~~:		HAYWARD: A good idea of something that should be included in a news literacy course: "What's missing? What's not being covered?"

			=== What about charging for content?===
			Judy Muller from the Annenberg School at the University of Southern California asks about the business model. She says the Wall Street Journal charges. She asks Neil Budde, who used to run the WSJ website, and also worked at Yahoo: "Why doesn't Yahoo or Google have to pay. Is it too late for that?"

			BUDDE: Says there are a lot of pieces to that question. Publishers don't want to lose traffic. Publishers actually want to be higher in the index. "I do want to touch a little on the subscription model because there is a lot of buzz right now in the industry about paying for things." He says the WSJ started from the premise: "We want to build something that people want to pay for." The put hundreds of dollars of off-line products into the online subscription that cost $45 a year.

			"I think if you're going to get people to pay for something you got to start by creating something they are going to be willing to pay for ... and then you spend forever marketing it . . . news organizations are going to have a lot of trouble going into that business unless they think about what they are going to put behind that wall."

			SCHILLER: People have only been willing to pay for three things:

			*Real time financial data
			*Specialized sports content
			*Porn

			"Beyond that, I don't believe having done a lot of research on it, that there is a sustainable business model for charging for content." SChiller said she led a successful effort to end Times Select. It got to about 220,000 people a year and then it stopped. And she starting thinking about that annuity vs. the value of searched content.

			"Right now because of this horrendous economy that discussion seems to be going on again," said Schiller. "And I still think there has got to be a better way."

Mediag at 18:30, 12 March 2009

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	Koppel said there used to be 30 foreign correspondents at ABC when he was young. Wallace said NBC now has maybe six. "Every network right now should have a bureau in Pakistan, in Indian, in Afghanistan. "There are nuclear warheads floating around in Pakistan and the world needs to know about it."		Koppel said there used to be 30 foreign correspondents at ABC when he was young. Wallace said NBC now has maybe six. "Every network right now should have a bureau in Pakistan, in Indian, in Afghanistan. "There are nuclear warheads floating around in Pakistan and the world needs to know about it."

			Federico Subervi: Mindich wasn't talking about regulating content -- he was asking about having stations regulated to meet the public interest, convenience and necessity. He says the percentage news devoted to Hispanics is 1 percent. The Kerner Commission pointed out the lack of diversity in news coverage. It hasn't changed. What's the percentage of Hispanic-related coverage on NPR, Subervi asks Vivian Schiller. In 2007 and 2008 it was less than 1 percent, he says.

			WALLACE: "Local news is in big trouble and I don't know the answer. Until the FCC decides to give local stations money to do news, I don't know what the answer is." She said NBC is trying to figure out how to address the huge Hispanic audience. They are looking to have more Hispanic reporters.

			KOPPEL:

Mediag at 18:24, 12 March 2009

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	David Mindich, St. Michael's College professor and author of "Tuned Out," asks about the disappearance of news on the TV.		David Mindich, St. Michael's College professor and author of "Tuned Out," asks about the disappearance of news on the TV.

	~~Koppel~~: "You can't regulate the Internet. It was created to survive a nuclear attack. You are not going to be able to do it anymore.		KOPPEL: "You can't regulate the Internet. It was created to survive a nuclear attack. You are not going to be able to do it anymore.

	Loren Ghiglione: In the university, there's pressure to internationalize, but he doesn't see the networks covering international news. How are we going to pursuade networks to provide coverage of the world when it is a cost center and they can get away with cutting it?		Loren Ghiglione: In the university, there's pressure to internationalize, but he doesn't see the networks covering international news. How are we going to pursuade networks to provide coverage of the world when it is a cost center and they can get away with cutting it?

	WALLACE: "The irony is I am very partial to foreign news . . . it's incredibly expensive. Iraq costs the networks millions and millions of dollars . . . Afghanistan is going to get bigger . . . we are sitting on a war going on in Mexico, it hasn't really impacted us. . . .. we can't afford to do the other stuff."		WALLACE: "The irony is I am very partial to foreign news . . . it's incredibly expensive. Iraq costs the networks millions and millions of dollars . . . Afghanistan is going to get bigger . . . we are sitting on a war going on in Mexico, it hasn't really impacted us. . . .. we can't afford to do the other stuff."

			Koppel said there used to be 30 foreign correspondents at ABC when he was young. Wallace said NBC now has maybe six. "Every network right now should have a bureau in Pakistan, in Indian, in Afghanistan. "There are nuclear warheads floating around in Pakistan and the world needs to know about it."

Mediag at 18:21, 12 March 2009

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	HAYWARD: What could your news organization do differently?		HAYWARD: What could your news organization do differently?

	KOPPEL: Just high quality that is entertaining, interesting and reliable.		KOPPEL: Just high quality that is entertaining, interesting and reliable. The fight for audience "has created a sort of partisan television that is more of a mudfight than anything."

			WALLACE: She cites Rachel Maddow is very partisan, but she doesn't yell at people. "And I think that is very refreshing. . . . she is a very smart woman . . . I think the fact that Rachel Maddow has a lot of light and she is successful is refreshing."

			SCHILLER: The challenge is to take the values of their radio work and include it in other media.

			BUDDE: "How do you get away from just the facts and get to the depth in a way that keeps an audience engaged and wanting to come back."

			==Question-and-answer session==

			David Mindich, St. Michael's College professor and author of "Tuned Out," asks about the disappearance of news on the TV.

			Koppel: "You can't regulate the Internet. It was created to survive a nuclear attack. You are not going to be able to do it anymore.

			Loren Ghiglione: In the university, there's pressure to internationalize, but he doesn't see the networks covering international news. How are we going to pursuade networks to provide coverage of the world when it is a cost center and they can get away with cutting it?

			WALLACE: "The irony is I am very partial to foreign news . . . it's incredibly expensive. Iraq costs the networks millions and millions of dollars . . . Afghanistan is going to get bigger . . . we are sitting on a war going on in Mexico, it hasn't really impacted us. . . .. we can't afford to do the other stuff."

Mediag at 18:11, 12 March 2009

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	WALLACE: "I agree with you. I think there is a huge hunger for news. What I think is broken is the business model."		WALLACE: "I agree with you. I think there is a huge hunger for news. What I think is broken is the business model."

	BUDDE: Cites AP ethnographic research showing that young adults are interested in depth. The challenge is how to pull them in.		BUDDE: Cites AP ethnographic research showing that young adults are interested in depth. The challenge is how to pull them in. He talks about telling a story in a different way. "Let's stop forcing people to deconstruct our stories. Let's given the more transparency up front.

			HAYWARD: "The buzzword for that is transparency . . . I would like to see that rewarded."

			KOPPEL: Training the audience to know the difference between "_ _ _ t and shinola is what we have to do."

			HAYWARD: What could your news organization do differently?

			KOPPEL: Just high quality that is entertaining, interesting and reliable.

Mediag at 18:08, 12 March 2009

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	WALLACE: "I agree with you. I think there is a huge hunger for news. What I think is broken is the business model."		WALLACE: "I agree with you. I think there is a huge hunger for news. What I think is broken is the business model."

			BUDDE: Cites AP ethnographic research showing that young adults are interested in depth. The challenge is how to pull them in.

Mediag at 18:07, 12 March 2009

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	KOPPEL: "When we add the term democratization to a topic . . . we Americans respond it has to be good. I don't think so. I don't think the democratization of news gathering is necessarily of itself a good thing." Having 10 million bloggers creating news without being able to determine their motives, he said, "I think is horrifying." At least on "60 Minutes" there are 40 people "who have been there since before the flood . . . but at least we know something about them, we know about how the process takes place . . . people who make sure that certain standards are met. . . . if we don't make sure that our own standards are meet, then they will dump us by the millions."		KOPPEL: "When we add the term democratization to a topic . . . we Americans respond it has to be good. I don't think so. I don't think the democratization of news gathering is necessarily of itself a good thing." Having 10 million bloggers creating news without being able to determine their motives, he said, "I think is horrifying." At least on "60 Minutes" there are 40 people "who have been there since before the flood . . . but at least we know something about them, we know about how the process takes place . . . people who make sure that certain standards are met. . . . if we don't make sure that our own standards are meet, then they will dump us by the millions."

	HAYWARD: What about a new kind of news where citizens get to have their own voice.		HAYWARD: What about a new kind of news where citizens get to have their own voice?

			KOPPEL: At 6:45 a.m. he flipped from channel to channel to channel and saw helicopter shots of Bernie Maddoff driving from his penthouse suite to the arms of justice. But he says he didn't learn anything about Bernie Maddoff. "Cable news appears to be in a desparate rush to be first with the obvious . . . we're going to be getting more and more of it. And I'm going to be standing on the bow of that sinking ship saying, 'I told you.' But it is sinking."

			HAYWARD: To what extent are we living up to our editorial standards?

			WALLACE: "The job I came out of in Nightly News was exhausting. All we did was fight all day about editorial standards . . . we have debates about ethics all day . . . about Mexico and what stories are we ignoring . . . but the audience is going away."

			SCHILLER: She does not agree the audience is going away. In February, NYTimes.com was getting 20 million uniques (users) a month. "I don't see that the audience is going away; I really take exception to that."

			WALLACE: "I agree with you. I think there is a huge hunger for news. What I think is broken is the business model."