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Panel: What Happens to Newspapers?
28 October 2008 (Lansons Communications, 24a St John Street, London EC1M 4AY)
Chairing a New Media Knowledge panel event on the future of newspapers
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At this event we considered how newspapers can survive falling circulation figures and spiralling ad revenues. And whether new media has led to their destruction or will help reinvent and rejuvenate the format. Documentation The event was filmed. A link to the edited video will be posted here in due course. Images Images may be found via the event entry on Upcoming.org. Weblog posts Find Weblog posts tagged Themes For the event I created a Newspaper Issues Map to present an overview of the factors that had created the current situation in the industry, the current responses, and possible futures.
Participants Chair: Nico Macdonald Neil Mcintosh, head of editorial development, guardian.co.uk. Weblog at Complete Tosh. Justin Williams, Assistant Editor, Telegraph Media Group. Writes a journalism Weblog at Counter Value. Martin Stabe, online editor, Retail Week, formerly new media editor, pressgazette.co.uk. Weblog. Tim Gopsill, editor of The Journalist, the magazine of the National Union of Journalists, distributed free to 37,000 journalists in the UK and Ireland. Tim is currently co-chair of the National Council of the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom and co-author of Journalists: 100 years of the NUJ (Profile Books, 2007) [Amazon.co.uk]. Mike Rowley, Director of Digital Publishing, Northcliffe Media. Oversees Northcliffe's 150 plus ‘This is’ sites. Event information Tickets cost £25.00. Full event information on NMK site. This event was supported by the Guardian. |