And speaking of citizen journalism ... ladies and gentlemen, Jay Rosen
I'm pleased to announce that Jay Rosen, a New York University professor and one of the leading thinkers on newspapers and the Internet, will be speaking here at the News & Record at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 4. Jay encouraged us to throw this session open to area bloggers as well as N&R staffers, and I'm pleased to do so.
If you're not familiar with Jay, you can peruse his Pressthink blog here. It has become one of a very few must-read sites for those of us wrestling with how newspapers can adapt to the Web and form partnerships with their audiences. He also has begun a new project, NewAssignment.Net, which, with seed money from Craigslist.com founder Craig Newmark, will experiment with national news stories to which local bloggers will contribute reporting and expertise. (More info here.)
Jay led a well-received session at last year's ConvergeSouth, and we're particularly fortunate to get him because he says he probably won't be able to make this year's ConvergeSouth.
So come if you can. I'll have more details later on subjects, logistics and so on. We hope to see you here.
