Jemima and I are at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, participating in the Media Giraffe conference “Democracy Independence: Sharing News and Politics in a Connected World.” You can follow much of it live via streaming video. Several people here were at our NYC mixer last night; Jeff Jarvis and Vin Crosbie are leading the evening session as I type with a panel including Helen Thomas, who spoke briefly; Boston Globe editor Martin Baron and Boston.com editor Teresa Hanafin; NYU’s Jay Rosen; Larry McDermott, publisher of The (Springfield) Republican; Ellen Hume, UMass; and Peter Bhatia of The Oregonian.
— The emphasis here is on journalism with a heavy focus on change and, for want of a better word, sustainability. How can journalism survive and thrive? Among the speakers tomorrow, Stephen Gray, executive director of the API’s expensive Newspaper Next initiative.
— I’m on a panel tomorrow afternoon led by Peter Krasilovsky; we’re exploring the business of online and whether online revenues and readership will be able to sustain watchdog journalism. This is a subject that came up during Rafat’s Q&A with Arthur Sulzberger, Jr.
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