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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:
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High School Journalism Scholarship Program which includes minority scholarships, the Harold K. Douthit Regional Scholarship, the University Journalism Scholarship and the Ohio Newspaper Women’s Scholarship
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Student Internships
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The Harry R. Horvitz Seminar for Editorial Excellence
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Ohio Newspapers in Education Committee
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Ohio Newspaper Carrier Achievement Awards
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Seminars with Ohio’s journalism schools
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Assistance to high school newspapers
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Projects to promote adult and youth literacy
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.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:53 am November 12th, 2007 in Blogging, Media, Ohio, Wide Open
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Jill,
Rather than quibbling with the paraphrase that produced the line you take issue with, let me say simply that I agree with you.
There are plenty of great journalists who wear their biases proudly on their sleeves. This is true.
It is also true that there is nothing inherently biased about a blog. It’s a publishing tool, and a good one.
(Are bloggers journalists? If not, we’re in trouble: Our entire breaking news report online is published in Movable Type.)
My point, perhaps clumsily made, was merely that a culture of transparency allows readers to make up their owns minds about the arguments made by a wide range of contributors at our site, njvoices.com.
Cheers,
John Hassell
John, no – I apologize – for the limits of this one-dimensional forum. I meant to be endorsing what you wrote! I agree completely with the distinction you make because it really highlights how, in a pure world, maybe however only the ivory tower world, we are ALL taught to think about journalists. I know that’s what I was taught.
It’s only after becoming an adult and in fact moving out of the country that the idea of filtering, and editors as gatekeepers really started to interest me, and make me kind of cynical.
In which case, disclosure – knowing – is really the only way we can still encourage people to keep consuming the news, but develop media literacy.
And that literacy lesson has to include blogs because they just aren’t going to go away, and, when done right, can be a unique, invaluable source of information to the average person (though I think we don’t know yet if average people even read blogs!)
Thanks for commenting.