Journos debate the future

I would ove to come to this event, but it begins at five thirty… Dont finish work until five, and I cant make it to the ABC building until seven.

Why doesnt it start later? now my friday will be tinged with regret..

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I will be very interested to hear you speak Tim, and William. It is booked out anyway Tom.
There’s also Stephen Brooks of UK guardianmedia by video.

Haven’t seen a dedicated twitter hasht, but have already started through #foj from @theworstofperth for example…

“Still room for pisstanks” Stephen Brook of UK Guardian will reassure Perth hacks at future of Journalism conf tonight.”Soaks will alw…

Looking forward to it.

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Just back from the forum. Great line-up – including you of course Tim, lively panel discussions about the viability of paywalls on media sites, the use/relevance of Twitter, and a fascinating insight on the UK media.

Interesting to hear Ch9 Perth talk about plans for its new website and Murdoch University’s Johan Lidberg say that from next year they’ll no longer stream its media students into either print, radio or TV journalism – instead courses will reflect the new converging media/newsroom reality.

And while The West Australian has just launched its new-look website, debate tonight featured rivals perthnow and watoday, while the ABC flagged a new CMS which will speed up its posts.

Add in pizza and beer to a free event and a pretty good Friday night foray into the future of journalism I’d say!

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That would be an interesting event to go to. Online and the GFC are dramatically impacting the news industry. Readership habits are changing, rise of citizen journalism, hyper local news, aggregation, and the fall in advertising revenue

There’s a debate about this on the NYT from editors of newspapers.

http://roomfordebate.blogs.nyt.....ewspapers/

Mark Cuban also wrote a good blogpost about it as well

http://blogmaverick.com/2009/0.....s-you-can/

http://blogmaverick.com/2009/0.....oure-glue/

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Thanks, Tanyia,

It was a really enjoyable night.

I’m just sitting in the departure lounge in Perth, ahead of a return to Sydney, and will probably post something on the night at some point tomorrow.

Then it’s Adelaide on Monday night, for more on the same topic.

Cheers,

Tim – Mumbrella

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Glad you made it back OK. I thought the highlights (apart from youse of course) were being told to turn off mobiles for a future of journalism conference, (!) ABC Kim Jordan’s complete missing of the point of Twitter, and the small group of bloggers vs the big group of journos at the end.
http://theworstofperth.com/200.....rstoff-69/

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