Fair Media Council

I will be appearing as a panelist in the "HOT TOPIC" panel at Fair Media Council's Connection Day (PDF).

Hot Topic!
Convergence: How Technology Has Changed News
Today, you get your news delivered straight to your cell phone, you listen to podcasts and watch streaming video on your local news radio web site. Find out how all the technological advances that enabled these new news delivery methods impact the types of stories you get in the news, as well as how the inner workings of newsrooms are changing to accommodate your unquenchable thirst for information.
With:

Carl Corry, Executive Producer, News12.com
Ethan Dreilinger, Product Manager, CBS Mobile News
Luke Funk, Sr. Web Producer, myfoxny.com
Liza Sabater, Blogdiva & Publisher, CultureKitchen.com

Fair Media Council is a New York metro area not-for-profit media watch organization that educates and advocates for quality local news coverage.

Yesterday I attended Fair Media Council's "Connections Day". I was one of the participants in the Blogging: The Power of Citizen Journalism panel.

I had a blast because I finally met Bob Cox, founder of the Media Bloggers Association and Steve Safran of Lost Remote. Bob is the patron saint of bloggers and Steve? Well, as you can see by his energy in this post, he's Bob's so-good-yet-evil twin.

As Steve points out, the debate was rather agitated and it went from, how can blogs be used by disseminate your message to the "we still own the media and you bloggers suck" debate. The three of us agreed we are in a transitional period at the moment, because the rules of engagement through reading and writing are changing.

Here's what I get from the discussions we had during the panel and afterwards: