Video: MIT & The Future Of The News
You might have noticed that I’ve been posting pretty frequently on the News industry. As an investor I find the industry fascinating and consider myself a micro participant (at the blog level). If you’re curious about how journalists do their work this talk is for you.
Video Introduction (Via MIT)
Ellen Hume redicts a “good news conversation” with her MIT Museum crowd about the future of news, but all participants end up working very hard to find a silver lining in the dire situation facing newspapers and other traditional forms of journalism.
The business model, Hume explains, is deeply broken for newspapers, big and small, and other mainstream media that people count on. Advertising — the very idea of the classifieds — is going extinct, vanquished by sites like Craigslist and Cars.com. The important work that journalists do, collecting, analyzing, contextualizing and disseminating information, and providing common frames of reference, has begun to migrate to the web and elsewhere.
Speaker Background (Via MIT)
Ellen Hume is the research director MIT Center for Future Civic Media and also the Founding Editor and Publisher of the New England Ethnic Newswire and the Founding Director of the Center on Media and Society, UMass Boston. As the founding Executive Director of PBS’s Democracy Project, from 1996 to 1998, she developed special news programs that encouraged citizen involvement in public affairs. She oversaw PBS’s 1996 and 1998 election coverage, creating PBS Debate Night, a nationally televised Congressional leadership debate, as well as local candidate debates on PBS stations across the country. She also created Follow the Money, PBS’s weekly television and Web series on the role of money in American politics. At PBS, she developed “resource journalism,” a multimedia approach to news coverage.
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