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Sessions posted to the news wall (Wednesday)

Tuesday Events

• LINK: AUDIO: "The State of Citizen Journalism" interactive panel, 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m., Aug. 7, 2007
• LINK: AUDIO: Introductory remarks, 3 p.m., Tuesday, by Len Witt, Chris Peck and Lee Huebner (12 mins.)
• LINK: AUDIO/VIDEO: Setting the Agenda: Participants' Introductory Questions; Tues., 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m.
• LINK: AUDIO/VIDEO: Expert circle: Chris Peck, Jim Shaffer, Geneva Overholser, Linda Jue; Tues. 7 p.m.
• LINK: AUDIO/VIDEO: Some 50 participants "headline" their key concerns (Tues., 7:30 p.m.)
• LINK: AUDIO: Participants report initial breakout topics, Tues., 8:30 p.m. (14 mins.)

Wednesday convening

• LINK: AUDIO: Breakfast reflections/headlines from participants (13 mins.)

Wed., 9:00 a.m. Break-out Sessions

• LINK: Journalism That Matters: Education That Matters / AUDIO/VIDEO
  
• LINK: Migrating Local Journalism to a citzen-trained model /
• LINK Training citizen journalists (JPG)
  

• LINK: The "TAO" of Journalism
  

• LINK: Representative Journalism (Len Witt et al.)
  

10:15 am Sessions

• LINK: How citizen journalists and professional journalists can/can't work together
• LINK: Citizen Journalism That Matters
• LINK: A Blue Ocean Strategy for Journalism
• LINK: Mindful Media? Can we create media that support our highest values?
• LINK: Scholarly research -- What's needed?

12:30 p.m. Sessions

• LINK: How communities might own a newsroom

• LINK: Pros and Cons of the Non-Profit Journalism Model

• LINK: Collaborative journalism, the new skill set of working with the public

• LINK: Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

2 p.m. Sessions

• LINK: Designing and Building the Newsroom of the Future at Duke University
• LINK: Locating and Financing the Next Newsroom (with Chris Peck) / AUDIO
• LINK: Helping Poynter Online transform journalism / AUDIO/VIDEO
• LINK: Youth Journalists and Civic Engagement -- Ingrid Dahl

3 p.m. Participant reports/next steps

By 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 8, participants in "Journalism That Matters: The DC Sessions" were ready to offer some key reports and insights after multiple breakout sessions and group discussions. Click to go to STREAM OR DOWNLOAD audio page.

5 p.m. Projects / Next Steps

Before gathering for a "closing circle" wrapup session, "Journalism That Matters: The DC Sessions" participants declared a total of 12 projects undertaken, and invited colleagues to join them for planning breakouts.

Before gathering for a "closing circle" wrapup session, "Journalism That Matters: The DC Sessions" participants declared a total of 12 projects undertaken, and invited colleagues to join them for planning breakouts.

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Here is a list, in the order described in the accompanying audio file, of the projects announced during this session, and the principal involved:

• Chris Peck -- Funding and finding a home for the next newsroom

• Linda Jue -- Post Katrina recover reporting multimedia project

• Rob Park -- Local education news

• Will Bunch -- Book, "The News Fix," helping create the next news organization, or "norg."

• Steve Brandt -- Helping journalism organizations adopt reporting on problem solutions

• Sue Ellen Christian -- Museum on collaboration: Online discussion on race

• Tom Warhover -- Ninety-day transformation of legacy newsroom into a web-centric rather than print-centric approach.

• Chris O'Brien -- Duke University next-newsroom project. What should media center look like?

• Jessica Bynoe -- Pushing for youth engagement in everyone's projects -- ages 5 to 25.

• Michael Stoll -- The public press, a citizen-journalism project, taking newspapers non-commercial as startups and converting for-profit enterprises.

• Josh Wilson -- Turn news you might of missed into a syndicated world news service

• Sarah Hasan -- ilmworks creation of cultural dialog; collaborators for 2009 conference at either Santa Clara Univ. of Georgtown on "science, religion and public-policy." And a cit-j project on American Muslims.

4 p.m. Next step planning

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