Journalism That Matters and Media Education
From Bill Densmore:
“On Aug. 7-8, the Media Giraffe Project at UMass Amherst helped convene ‘Journalism That Matters: The DC Sessions,’ at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The event brought together more than 150 journalism editors, mainstream and web/citizen journalists and mission-driven activists with the aim of planning ‘The Next Newsroom’ prototype.
OVERALL LINK: http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-dc
A couple of the breakout sessions covered:
1) How journalism education must change.
2) What’s going on in youth media and youth-media education.
We videotaped and audioblogged portions of both sessions and the multimedia or text notes are useful for getting a sense of the intersection between our work at ACME and what journalists are thinking. My strong sense is that journalists who have time to think have realized they need to be thinking about media literacy if they want to have an audience in the future.
Here’s the whole roster, many linked to profiles:
http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-dc-roster
And here are the blog posts that will get you to the text, audio and video of the two relevant breakouts:
YOUTH MEDIA:
http://newshare.typepad.com/jtm2007/2007/09/video-diverse-g.html
JOURNALISM EDUCATION:
http://newshare.typepad.com/jtm2007/2007/08/audio-excerpt-o.html
– bill
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Bill Densmore, director/editor
The Media Giraffe Project Journalism Program / 108 Bartlett Hall Univ. of Massachusetts
What happens when all that’s left is the journalism?
Help plan and launch The Next Newsroom in a U.S. community
sometime during 2008. For background:
KICKOFF: http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/
WHO CAME: http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-dc-roster
THE BLOG: http://newshare.typepad.com/jtmnextnewsroom
ANOUNCEMENT: http://www.mediagiraffe.org/pdf/jtm-dc-announcement.pdf
THE SESSIONS: http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-dc-reports“
