Public, Private and Personal: Silk Journalism PanelPublic, Private and Personal: Silk Journalism Panelhttp://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/122891Chase Auditorium2010-04-10T15:00:002010-04-10T17:00:00
April 10, 3:00PM
Chase Auditorium
A discussion about how user-generated content shapes the news.
Description
This year’s panelists include:
Tom Curry '77, Political reporter, MSNBC.com
Candice Shih '01, Reporter and editor, The Orange County Register
Charles Curtis '04, Reporter and researcher, ESPN the magazine
Dave Merrell '09, Homepage editor, Philly.com
The panelists will discuss:
- The rise of user-generated content, with an additional focus on how this trend has resulted in private events becoming public fodder.
- What are the opportunities and challenges presented by user-generated material?
- Many websites allow users to shape the news with their videos, photos, and comments— which are not necessarily edited or fact-checked or, in some cases, screened. What does that mean for news orgs and readers?
- And when it comes to the foibles of public figures, how can blog posts or user-generated content (whether text messages, voicemails or hotel lobby surveillance cam imagery, etc.) become the very basis for coverage? What happens when the blog post becomes the news itself?
- How does it facilitate a story’s migration from the realm of gossip to news? Indeed, when does gossip – about Tiger Woods, Michael Phelps, Sen. John Edwards or Gov. Mark Sanford – become news in the first place and how does such a determination shape how a mainstream news outlet might cover such an issue, especially in a viral media age where the biggest and hottest grabs the most attention, and a failure to cover something amounts to “turning away eyeballs” at the website door?
Additional information about the Silk Journalism Panel:
The Silk Journalism Panel commemorates the life and work of Haverford alumnus Andrew Silk ’75 by bringing together working reporters, editors and bloggers for a conversation about contemporary issues affecting the craft and consequence of journalism. The event is open to both the campus community as well as the general public; past participants have included John Carroll '63; Loren Ghiglione '63; Norm Pearlstine '64; Dennis Stern '69; Juan Williams '76; David Wessel '75; Amy Walter and many others.
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