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What's next? someone in the audience asked Jack Fuller, who gave the keynote address on the first day.
"I don't know," he said. "You probably don't either. Things are changing very rapidly." He spoke about lessons in humility he had learned from the online world: what we need to do is to experiment and assess the results, and adapt, and do it over and over again - not get wedded to ideology about what people want. Newspapers are notoriously difficult to change because readers get upset at change. Newspapers must experiment and adapt. Humility means recognizing oour own lack of knowledge - ignorance in the true sense. Recent research had shown that newspapers are conservative, perfectionist and reluctant to change, similar in culture to the military and hospitals. Fuller said he understood why there were some reasons to preserve some aspects of this culture - you want people to be perfectionists when they are doing delicate operations. Fuller said he hoped that newspapers had the potential to change. Read more about Fuller at http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/ReadMe/article.php?id=243.
Ideas for generating convergence kept being asked from the floor in several of the sessions. Here are the consolidated thoughts:
How to attract a young audience was a common theme. Here are the thoughts of Don Estes, editor of chicagotribune.com
Estes spoke about the tao of FLOID. Fresh, local, often updated, images and interactive, aimed at the young demographic. Here are details about each:
Blogging was another popular subject. The other keynote speaker was Andrew Sullivan, who runs a popular blog at www.andrewsullivan.com
Read the blog from conference attendees. See http://www.journalists.org/2003conference/blog/
Publishing unedited blogs on news sites is "a suicide pact," says a lawyer with Dow Jones & Company. See
http://onlinejournalism.com/topics/brief.php?briefID=64468.
Posted by belinda at November 18, 2003 08:44 AM