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Rebooting Rockwell's America: News, Art and Community
A PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM / September 11-13, 2009 / Stockbridge, Massachusetts
ABOUT OUR CONVENORS AND SPONSORS
The ideas for "Rebooting Rockwell's America: News, Art and Community" germinated about two years ago, as Bill Densmore, a researcher on journalism's future, and David Scribner, a writer former editor of The Berkshire Eagle shared a idea: What would happen if a trained reporter rode a circuit of coffee shops and cafes within the Berkshires, meeting with citizens on a regular schedule, convening public discussions using the latest WiFi and multimedia mobile reporting technologies?
Then earlier this year, Norman Rockwell Museum Director Laurie Norton Moffatt noted the speed and effectiveness of web and email technologies as she and fellow residents of Stockbridge, Mass., rallied support and meeting attendance to retain funding for arts and cultural education in local public schools. What could happen, Moffatt asked, if cultural institutions and communities worked together to sustain and morph community journalism using such technologies?
The result is this symposium.
CO-CONVENORS
About David Scribner
About Bill Densmore
Bill is a fellow at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism and a permanent resident of the Berkshires. He is director of The Media Giraffe Project at the University of Massachusetts and a co-founder of CircLabs Inc., a California-based startup working to sustain journalism through innovative online services that address user privacy, effective advertising and sharing value for news and multimedia information.
About Laurie Norton Moffatt
Laurie is CEO and director of the Norman Rockwell Museum.
CO-SPONSORS
- The Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Mass.
- The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, Columbia, Mo.
- The Media Giraffe Project at UMass Amherst
- The Journalism That Matters collaborative
- Center for Sustainable Journalism at Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Ga.
