Innovation Reading Circle
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The Innovation Reading Circle aims to help develop theory around innovation through rich, high-level and well-informed public discussion around key and related texts and discourses... [Read on in Objectives]
> Event
15: Journalism futures
> Titles
Supermedia: Saving Journalism So It Can Save the World by Charlie Beckett (Blackwell, 2008) [216pp] [Pre-order from Amazon.co.uk. Supermedia is published by in hardback and paperback on 20 May, however, it is available to read online or download from the Berkman Center media re:public preparation page]
In Supermedia Charlie Beckett describes the crisis facing mainstream journalism and argues that ‘professional’ journalism must be transformed through the integration of the public into the production and dissemination of news.
Charlie Beckett is the founding director of POLIS, the thinktank for research and debate into international journalism and society, a joint initiative between the LSE Media and Communications Department and the London College of Communication. POLIS hosts public lectures and seminars for journalists and the public. It also runs Fellowship and Research programmes, and publishes reports on a range of topics including new media and journalism, media and development, financial journalism, and public service broadcasting. Becket has been a programme editor at ITN’s Channel 4 News, and a film-maker and programme editor at BBC News and Current affairs. He was also a Reuters Fellow at Oxford University, where he wrote a field-work based paper on New Technology and Journalism in Uganda. [Read on on his Weblog... Read on on his LSE staff page...]
Related titles
Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media by Nick Davies (Chatto and Windus, 2008) Flat Earth News site
Panicology by Hugh Aldersey-Williams and Simon Briscoe (Viking Penguin, 2008) Panicology site
> Took place
13 May 2008
> At
The Gerard Bar, Royal Society of Arts, 8 John Adam Street, London WC2N 6EZ [confirmed]
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> Notices
We are grateful to the RSA for hosting this event.
Points for discussion
Some of the questions that we plan to discuss include:
- What is the cause of the crisis in journalism?
- What is the historic role of journalism in society?
Background reading, listening and viewing
Networked journalism: For the people and with the people, Charlie Beckett, Press Gazette, 18 October 2007. Report from the Networked Journalism Summit in New York. [Discusses use of blogging in print and crowdsourcing.] This is networked journalism in action, doing things that conventional journalists could not do on their own. [Discusses payment models.] Jay Rosen of New York University... warns that only one per cent of any group of people who volunteer to get involved are truly creative and only 10 per cent produce anything journalistic... Networked journalism... means we are going to have to change the way we work and treat the public as partners, not punters. [Shared bookmark]
Other shared bookmarks for Innovation Reading Circle 15 may be added.
Reviews
Dust jacket reviews on the LSE Press and Information Office book pageInterviews
[None available]
If you have queries about the event please email Nico Macdonald