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Fellow journalist:

Please read the statement below from Free Press.

Last summer, at the MGP2006 conference at UMass, I spoke about the danger that one day all of the "presses" on which America's newspapers are now printed will be virtual -- news will travel on the network. I spoke about the danger that one day it would be possible for the people who control the network to begin making business and editorial judgement about when -- in effect -- the press roles.

HERE'S WHAT I SAID (CLICK ON AUDIO STREAM):
http://newshare.typepad.com/mgp2006/audioand_multimedia_resources/index....

The folks at "giraffe prospect" TruthOut.org have been posting for the
last several days about alleged problems getting their email messages to
subcribers who use such services as AOL, Hotmail, MSN, WebTV and Yahoo.
Follow their saga at:

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091307Z.shtml

At one level this seems like trouble with spam filtering. But TruthOut
seems to be having trouble getting a clear explanation from the ISPs. The
episode is worth watching in light of:

http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/070906niles/print.htm

-- bill densmore

Robert Cox, head of the Media Bloggers Association, advises that he's
negotiated blogger credentials for the GOP debate in Baltimore next week. He writes: "This is a last minute but I wanted to let you know that the MBA is working with PBS to help them identify bloggers to be credentialed for next week's GOP debate in Baltimore . . . I thought you might know some folks who might want to be credentialed or even want to send out that info on your list, asking folks to contact me via email or cell phone if they are interested.

Here is the main page for the event

All-American Presidential Debate on PBS with Tavis Smiley

MSWORD DOWNLOAD:
http://www.mediagiraffe.org/docs/ona-toronto.doc

Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:23:03 -0400
From: Tiffany Shackelford
To: Bill Densmore
Subject: ONA release

Hi Bill,

Would you mind sending the attached release to your lists? Hope to see
you in Toronto.

Cheers,

Tiffany Shackelford
Assistant Managing Editor for Outreach and Technology
Stateline.org
The Pew Research Center
1615 L Street, NW
Suite 700
Washington, DC 20036
202-419-4476

New York (August 14, 2007) - Leading digital journalists, bloggers and educators from around the world will gather to discuss the practical and the possible in online journalism during the eighth annual conference of the Online News Association (ONA), to be held Oct. 17-19, 2007, in

We would like to welcome forum posts back to MGP-Forum.org.

Sincerely,

Agaric Design Collective
http://AgaricDesign.com/

JTM-DC participant Barb Hipsman of Kent State University sends along a link to a downloadable PDF of a report just finished by one of her colleagues at Kent State -- Joe Murray . . . an analytic summary of the options facing journalism programs if they want to remain relevant.

He titles it: "Adapt or Die: A 10-Step Survival Guide for Journalism Schools Stuck in the Fourth Estate."...

Here's the link:
http://stream.kent.edu/gmurray/JMC/Adapt_Or_Die.pdf

Barb Hipsman, associate professor/news, Kent State University,

David Beers, the experienced magazine editor and MGP2006 alum who helped found
The Tyee.ca in Vancouver, B.C., three years ago, is concerned about the decline
in the quality of dialog on the Internet. He's summarized the issue with
relevant links on The Tyee website and is hoping there are solutions
lurking. Any ideas?

Here's the URL:
http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2007/05/15/TalkOnline/

Contact: David Beers
604.688.7483 /