It’s a crisp fall day outside but dozens of media and tech execs are clustered in a Googleplex auditorium at the UC-Berkeley Media Technology Summit trying to learn from the past, get through the present and change the future. First up, John Temple, the last publisher of the Rocky Mountain News, comparing himself to the funeral director doing his own autopsy. Some harsh lessons — and it doesn’t sound like Temple thinks the industry has learned much from them, explaining that the Rocky made the mistake of thinking we were in the newspaper business. Today;s newspaper companies are still thinking that way when they shouldn’t: “They’re not. They’re in the news, information, knowledge, and connection business.” No live video or audio but we’ve embedded the video of his prepared presentation below; the text is here.
Lessons from the Rocky Mountain News – Presentation at the UC Berkeley Media Technology Summit at Googleplex in Silicon Valley from John Temple on Vimeo.

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