Dan Gillmor

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Dan Gillmor
Participatory Journalism A Conversation, Not a
Lecture

• dgillmor_at_mercurynews.com
• www.dangillmor.com

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Journalisms New World

• Ubiquitous networks
• New choices for readers/viewers/listeners
• Anyone can publish
• Powerful tools for reporting, publishing
• Empowers not just the former audience, but also
  the people (and institutions) we cover
• Uncertain business models
• But new approaches emerge

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7 November 2000, Hong Kong
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Convergence

• We Started with Old Media
• We added New Media
• Then we added We Media -- the rise of personal
  publishing -- the read-write Web
• Making the News is now possible for anyone

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Media in the Digital Age11 September 2001
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Media in the Digital Age11 September 2001
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Media in the Digital Age12 September 2001
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Media in the Digital Age14 September 2001
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Media in the Digital Age14 September 2001
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December 5, 2002Trent Lotts nostalgia for
segregation
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February 1, 2003Space shuttle Columbia is
lost
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Columbia -- 2
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Columbia -- 3
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Journalism has been a lecture

• We say, This is the news.
• You buy what we sell
• (Or you dont)

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Journalism becomes a conversationor maybe a
seminar

• We tell you what we have learned.
• You tell us if you think we are correct.
• Then we discuss it.
• Self-correcting, to an extent

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A Foundation Principle

• My readers know more than I do.

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My Readers Know MoreThan I Do

• This is true for all working journalists
• This is not a threat
• This is an opportunity

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My Readers Knows Moreand this guy probably
wishes they didnt
Joe Nacchio Former CEO
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My Readers Knows More
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My Readers Knows More
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My Audience Learns More
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Reporting Distribution

• Digital cameras, etc.
• Text SMS etc.
• Write on the Web weblogs and more
• Radio, Moveable Type, Blogger, Etc.
• Mailing lists
• Audio
• Video

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SMS

• Much more important than widely understood
• Rheingolds Smart Mobs
• SARS
• Nigeria
• Headlines
• RSS

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Video and Audio

• For newspapers, more illustration than product
• Las Vegas
• Peer to peer
• BitTorrent is God
• Hollywood hates it we need to fight to keep it
  alive

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Tools/Toys
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Tools/Toys
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Tools/Toys
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Tools/Toys
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Newer Tools

• RSS
• Newsreaders
• Social software

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Search Tools
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Search Tools
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Newsrooms of the FutureAsking the Readers
Ad Hoc and Beyond
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Inviting the Audience
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Big Media Ask the Readers
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Multimedia Blogging
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Community Conversation
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Community Conversation
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Community Conversation
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1999 Financial Model
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New Century, New Model
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New Model Nano-publishing
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New/Old Model The Tip Jar
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Community Conversation

• Comments
• Invite reader participation learn from them
• BBCs editorial control
• Give readers their own weblogs
• Salon
• Reverse Cowgirl et al

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Help me with my book

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• www.dangillmor.com