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Women in leadership events: Connie Schultz, OSU, 11/15; Marie Wilson, Cleveland, 12/3

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Last year, Marie Wilson of the White House Project spoke. This year, Connie Schultz is the speaker at OSU. Vitals:

This lecture is free and open to the public, but seating is limited and reservations are required

WHAT: Barbara K. Fergus Women in Leadership Lecture featuring
Connie Schultz

DATE: Thursday, November 15, 2007

TIME: 4:00 p.m.

LOCATION: Weigel Hall Auditorium
1866 College Road
Columbus, Ohio 43210

RSVP: Reservations are required.
Please visit http://www.glennschool.osu.edu/rsvp/fergus_lecture.php by November 8, 2007.

Email Laura Sipe or call 614.292.4545 to check and see whether you can still attend.

After Thanksgiving, Marie Wilson will be speaking in NYC at a function called, Power, Politics and Women: Levelling the Leadership Field. I’d go just based on the title.

Finally, Marie will be here in Cleveland on December 3 and I expect to attend:

2007 Speaker Series Presents: Marie Wilson
December 3, 2007
11:30 am – 1:30 pm
Windows on the River
2000 Sycamore
Cleveland, OH 44113
Political $avvy Wins for Women. Will the next President of the U.S.A. be female? Our final speaker for 2007 will do everything she can to make this possibility a reality. An advocate of women’s issues for more than 30 years, Marie C. Wilson is founder and president of The White House Project and author of Closing the Leadership Gap: Why Women Can and Must Help Run the World (Viking 2004).

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:32 pm November 12th, 2007 in Announcements, Campaigning, Elections, Government, Politics, Women | Comments Off 

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12

10Question video to check out, from founder of The Political Voices of Women

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Catherine Morgan is a go-getter – taking the initiative when she discovers an unfilled niche – like no organized list or site for female political blogs (she started an excellent list and blog).

Now she’s done a video for the 10Questions project.  She and her daughter both did one and they are very cool – you can see them here (scroll down).  Please consider checking out their videos and voting for them.

Has anyone else done one yet that we should look at?

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:13 pm November 12th, 2007 in Announcements, Blogging, Elections, Government, Health Care, WH2008, Women | 9 Comments 

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12

Jeff “Columbo” Jarvis: Just one more thing on Wide Open

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And I’m glad he decided to say just one more thing, because it’s a good post that highlights one of Jay Rosen’s best points: bloggers aren’t without ethics, as has previously been intimated by some corners.

Rather, there are two sets of ethics involved (at a minimum, given that no one has yet addressed Columbus Dispatch Associate Publisher Michael Curtin’s $25,000 contribution to the Vote No Casinos group in 2006 – he has also been a political reporter and editor at the Dispatch during his 34 years there):

Jay Rosen summed up what I was trying to say in one eloquent line; he has a habit of doing that: “Advice to newsroom people: if you’re caught up in a situation that appears to pit journalists with ethics against bloggers who ain’t got none, you may actually be facing a conflict between one ethic and another, and it would be good to find out what the ‘other’ is before deciding what to do.”

[snip]

This entire tale is not about one tribe having ethics, the other not. That’s what was so grossly insulting, self-centered, and truly self-righteous about the Plain Dealer’s treatment of the bloggers. They thought the other guys didn’t have any. Instead, this should be about one tribe trying to understand — and learn from — the ethics of the other. The Plain Dealer didn’t try. That is its loss.

Thanks to Jay, Jeff, Danny Glover, Amy Gahran, all others who have offered opinions and perspectives on Wide Open’s demise.  A few have bothered to call and/or email me to find out what happened and discern why.  Thanks especially to them.

We’re going to learn from this, each of us something different, but hopefully all of us some of the same things.  Mostly, I just hope we do something good for the readers – because without them, it really is just navel-gazing.   And for that, I could just stay in my pjs in the basement.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 3:58 pm November 12th, 2007 in Blogging, Media, Ohio, Politics, Wide Open | 1 Comment 

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12

Call for Carnival of Ohio Politics submissions

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Tomorrow evening, 9pm, is the deadline for submissions by Ohio bloggers of posts about politics in Ohio, or political posts (not necessarily the same, dontcha know!).

You can submit up to three posts by emailing the URLs to ohiopolcarnival AT gmail DOT com.

Spread the word – we love newbies as much as the always reliable.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 1:17 pm November 12th, 2007 in Blogging, Carnivals, Ohio, Politics | Comments Off 

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12

WaPo Pulitzer winner disciplined for undisciplined email to Marion Barry

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I don’t know what to make of this situation, but the hattip goes to this comment at PressThink and the original blog post, here on Bruce Johnson’s Blog (attention Eric Mansfield: Johnson appears to be another TV news anchor with a blog about same). From the news station’s article:

Washington Post classical music critic Tim Page ripped DC Councilman and former Mayor Marion Barry in a company email recently. A copy was obtained by 9 News Now in which Page refers to the former Mayor as a “crack addict” and “useless”.

The controversy started late last Wednesday with an email from Marion Barry’s Communication staff that went out as a “blast” to several dozen reporters and media organizations. In it the Ward eight Councilman explained that he had voted for the sale of Greater Southeast Hospital; but he wasn’t convinced it was a good deal for the city.

Tim Page, a Pulitzer Prize winner and 30-year journalism veteran got the Barry email even though he doesn’t cover the former Mayor or the DC government and apparently wasn’t too pleased to hear from Barry.

He responded with a harsh email of his own in which he rips the Councilman and calls him useless.

There are comments at Johnson’s blog. WaPo doesn’t seem to have anything on it yet.

What do you think?

Interesting commentary on the incident, here, suggests that Page’s Asperger’s Syndrome (diagnosed in him as an adult) might be the cause for him sending such an email.

I don’t know…that means that an awful lot of us might have the same thing…do you really think that’s true? Maybe the tip to Asperger’s was in jest?  I’m not sure what to make of it.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:07 pm November 12th, 2007 in Blogging, Media, Politics, Wide Open | 4 Comments 

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12

PD could run Wide Open with space aliens who have no connection to earthlings

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This comment at MediaShift Idea Lab is excellent but my favorite part:

This sounds like a joke, but it isn’t. We the media are in 1984 going on 2008 and a major regional newspaper experimenting online can’t distinguish between a material conflict of interest (a campaign paying a writer) and an aspect of being a human, citizen, and political junkie (donations to a candidate by a writer). The former must always be disclosed and could be reason to end a reporting career. The latter should probably be disclosed to readers but cannot be considered a breach of ethics until we have all our reporting and commentary done by space aliens with no connection to life on earth.

Thank you, Benjamin Melancon. (I know – I need to learn how to do the special character for your c, I’m sorry!)

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:30 am November 12th, 2007 in Blogging, Media, Ohio, Politics, Wide Open | Comments Off 

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Corday v. Fisher, 2010 Ohio governor Dem primary?

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So – I’m sitting here on a plane with my son, reviewing all kinds of emails from the last four days, catching up on news.

And I’m reading things about:

-Goveror Ted Strickland endorses Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, 2008

-Clinton says it’s too early to say that she is thinking about who might be her VP choice (as in, Strickland’s the one)

-former OMB director and likely GOP political candidate for something in Ohio, sooner rather than later, Rob Portman is looking at the gov or senate race and if he chooses the governor race, he’ll may very well have to go through a primary against former congressman, John Kasich and former U.S. Senator, Mike DeWine

And then…I get to a bunch of recent items from Ohio Treasurer Richard Cordray, including numerous event listings.

And, it dawns on me: hey…Is Strickland going to really be the VP candidate with Rich Cordray stepping in to run as governor?  Would he do that against Fisher?

I was just free associating.

Anyone else have the same thoughts?

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:31 am November 12th, 2007 in Campaigning, Elections, Ohio, Politics | 5 Comments 

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12

WCPN this morning: Your brain on violence – a sadly evergreen topic

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This topic is good, but one of the guests, Mark Singer, was a professor of mine at MSASS and Mike Walker was someone I came to know (by name, I’m pretty sure he doesn’t know me) through my other social work, at the juvenile court and Bellefaire etc.

I mention this because although this topic is a good one, now and almost always (evergreen as we say), those of us who’ve cared have been familiar with this concept about our brains and violence for a long time now. None of it should surprise anyone and frankly, it’s very logical.

James Garbarino is the seminal name in the area, but to be fair, Mark Singer has done an enormous amount of work in this field too re: what happens to people who witness violence.

Its applications are more numerous than they should be.

Listen live here or later here.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:11 am November 12th, 2007 in Announcements, Crime, Culture, Education, Health Care, Ohio, Parenting, WCPN/SOI | 2 Comments 

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12

Ohio Newspaper Assn. on citizen journalism & a Wide Open morning to ya’ll

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Here’s the description of Steve Yelvington’s workshop tomorrow in Pickerington (outside Columbus). Hmm, does anyone think there’s intellectual property value that could be bought and sold to the Wide Open story rights, as a case study packet!?

On the agenda:

Citizen media overview: It’s not just about blogging. We survey the broad landscape of citizen media, ranging from personal chatter to hard news reporting.

How mainstream media can interoperate with citizen media: We discuss how newspapers in particular can add value and get value by cooperating with public online space, and we’ll take a look at BlufftonToday.com as a case study.
Conversational leadership: Simple principles for hosting, leading and facilitating online community processes that lead to positive, productive conversation instead of juvenile flamewars.

Assessing the risks and rewards or user-contributed content: There are ways to incorporate user-generated content into a website when you have limited access to legal resources. We discuss the choices all newspapers need to make and how to decide what kinds of user-generated content are a good fit for your newspaper.

Here’s more about the sponsoring organization and its foundation, which is the branch that provides the education:

Ohio Newspaper Association

Established in 1933, The Ohio Newspaper Association formally consolidated the activities of two loosely-knit groups of publishers which had existed since the late 1800’s — The Buckeye Press Association for weekly newspapers and The Associated Ohio Dailies. These forerunner organizations banded together to share trade information and to jointly sell advertising.

 

From these roots has evolved a strong state trade association which represents all of Ohio’s daily newspapers and weekly newspapers which qualify for periodicals class mail privileges. ONA administers a full program of member services that include: government relations and lobbying, publications, seminars and employee training, legal assistance, group insurance, and advertising services.

Ohio Newspapers Foundation
The Ohio Newspapers Foundation was formed by ONA members in 1976. This 501 (c)(3) charitable organization is operated with contributions that are made outside of the association dues structure. The Foundation’s mission is to achieve the highest standards of excellence and professionalism in journalism and newspaper publishing through research and educational activities. These include:

I wish I was a fly on the wall at that workshop. I wonder if the issue of bloggers in the statehouse will come up too.

On this morning’s Wide Open horizon:

George is having a little tete-a-tete with Danny Glover.

MediaShift Idea Lab picked up Jay Rosen’s thoughts on Wide Open.

Ed Cone comments on Jay Rosen here.

The Editor’s Blog from World Media Forum explicitly asks what, in retrospect, the PD should have done before we went live, in its post, “What are the standards for non-journalists.”

Now, what’s fascinating about that title is, of course, that the author of the post obviates the need to even ask, are bloggers journalists. He goes with the assumption that they are not. Hmmm. His final quote says it all:

John Hassell, The Star-Ledger deputy managing editor for online says this transparency keeps the blogs alive because it allows bloggers to do what journalists cannot: be biased.

Imagine all the people currently considered to be journalists whom we would have to out as not journalists if this statement by John Hassell were to be followed, purely.

Start with the op-ed pages, then the editorial pages and of course, all the talk-radio and talking head television programs. There’s an awful lot of people who currently think that or project themselves to be under the journalist rubric who are out and out biased with no cover at all.

So we’re prepared to say that they aren’t journalists, just for the sake of excluding bloggers?

That seems very odd to me – become less inclusive rather than more.

I have to think about that, but my first thoughts are: the reader. There’s no focus on the reader in this line of thinking. It’s all about the person doing the writing or broadcasting.

Is that right? Maybe. I’m not sure.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:53 am November 12th, 2007 in Blogging, Media, Ohio, Wide Open | 2 Comments 

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12

Wide Open links from the Houston airport

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Ah….the comfort of airport wifi – free, no less, since I have AT&T at home.

Steve Yelvington of Corante will be in Ohio this week to do a citizen journalism training workshop.  Here’s his post about Wide Open, called, “Mudslide in Ohio.” If Wide Open is defunct, at least it will in fact be used as a lesson.  That’s the least I hope for.

Jay Rosen of NYU and PressThink with a very thorough run-down on what happened, the reviews that ensued and why any of what transpired has value.

Into My Own suggests people revisit 2004 info on Steve LaTourette to get a more complete picture of the environment in which the Wide Open demise occurred.

Jeff Hess wonders whether “She expects bloggers to work for free” – the “she” being PD editor, Susan Goldberg.

Amy Bellinger of Amyloo writes this post, “Why does it have to be such a pitched battle?”.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:53 am November 12th, 2007 in Blogging, Media, Ohio, Politics, Wide Open | Comments Off 

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