The second panel of the afternoon featured
political bloggers, Guido Fawkes and Recess Monkey, Guardian Associate Editor,
Michael White and freelance journalist, Nick Jones.
This was far and away the best panel of the
afternoon in terms of quality of debate. And admissions by bloggers that
journalists now tipped them off about
unpublishable stories shows just how far the Goldsmiths programme needs to go
with its research to catch-up with the new media.
Nick Jones’ presentation also gave the audience
a sharp wake-up call. Nick challenged Ofcom research findings delivered in one
of the morning sessions as “complacent” and warned that the regulator and media
industry in general that they risked utterly losing out in a rapidly changing
media world.
Nick’s argument ran along the lines of Ofcom
doing little to adapt its position as regulator of media silos in world where
convergence is happening at a frightening pace. Citing 18 Doughty Street
This was all very interesting, as I overheard
the conference chair tell Mr Ofcom that his findings were very important and
would be quoted a lot in the future! Or maybe not…
I didn’t stay for the final speaker – I went to the pub with Guido and Recess. But what I do know is that the people leading the Futures of News research project could certainly benefit from reading people like Jeff Jarvis, David Weinberger and Dan Gilmor to that a lot of the ‘future’ of the news is now.
*UPDATED* My colleague, Tim Callington, has more from the event here:
James
Curran, Goldsmiths College - introduction
Martin
Turner, head of operations at BBC News Gathering - "The end of news as
we've known it."
Anne
Spackman, editor-in-chief, Times Online - "the ten most discussed topics
at Times Online"
John
Glover, senior programme executive, OFCOM - "Good news, bad news; new
news, future news"
As does, the Media Standard Trust's, Martin Moore:
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