Slate Group Chief to Join Panel on New Media
Dear Colleague,
Journalism is being transformed by online media. The internet, and the technologies it supports, has given every journalist a new audience, but it has also changed the way the news business functions. The plunge in demand for newsprint is contributing to the surge in bankruptcies in the media industry, but opening up new opportunities for others.
At this remarkable moment in the history of journalism, as the media industry re-orients to cope with this transformation, the IPI World Congress in Helsinki will feature a panel on “New Media and the Future of Broadcast News”. Panelists Jacob Weisberg, chairman and editor-in-chief of the Slate Group (photo left); Barkha Dutt, editor and host with NDTV New Delhi; and Atte Jääskeläinen, director of news, sport and regional programming at YLE Finnish Broadcasting Company, will discuss the future of the broadcast news industry in the face of the growth of blogs, citizen journalism, content aggregation, interactivity and other new forms of distributing information.
At this remarkable moment in the history of journalism, as the media industry re-orients to cope with this transformation, the IPI World Congress in Helsinki will feature a panel on “New Media and the Future of Broadcast News”. Panelists Jacob Weisberg, chairman and editor-in-chief of the Slate Group (photo left); Barkha Dutt, editor and host with NDTV New Delhi; and Atte Jääskeläinen, director of news, sport and regional programming at YLE Finnish Broadcasting Company, will discuss the future of the broadcast news industry in the face of the growth of blogs, citizen journalism, content aggregation, interactivity and other new forms of distributing information.
INTERVIEW WITH SLATE'S JACOB WEISBERG
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In an interview with IPI’s Nayana Jayarajan, Slate’s Jacob Weisberg discusses new media and the importance of press freedom in a new technological era. "I think independent organizations like IPI ... are in the forefront of the fight for free and independent media around the world," he says, "and I think their work is no less essential because the internet gives more and more people the opportunity to function as journalists, it creates new candidates for repression in countries where the media isn’t free and to have both external support from the profession and internal organizations that advocate press freedom as an element of civil society I think is more crucial than ever."
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