{"id":137,"date":"2008-06-28T09:59:38","date_gmt":"2008-06-28T14:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/2008\/06\/28\/new-england-news-forum\/"},"modified":"2008-08-10T20:17:25","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T01:17:25","slug":"new-england-news-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/2008\/06\/28\/new-england-news-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"New England News Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/files\/2008\/06\/davemathison28june2008.jpg\" align=\"left\" height=\"172\" width=\"165\" \/>Dave Mathison, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bethemedia.org\/\">Be the Media<\/a> is opening <a href=\"http:\/\/dbs.hosting.crocker.com\/wiki\/index.php\/Sharing\">Sharing the news: Reaching students, training citizens<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newenglandnews.org\/\">New England News Forum<\/a> &#8216;s one-day event here at UMass Lowell (watch it live <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/mediagiraffe\">here<\/a>, follow #nenf on Twitter) Warning: live blogging, expect mistakes. A small group with a mix of community news, students and education folks here, plus a couple folks from professional media outlets. Looking forward to meeting folks from well-known community news sites the Forum and New Haven Independent to hearing about what journalism educators are thinking about participatory media.<\/p>\n<p>Dave is a &#8220;traditional&#8221; cyberutopian, anyone can do it, cut out the middleman, don&#8217;t let the artist be treated like slave labor, self-publish,  get on facebook and twitter, etc. &#8220;What about credibility?&#8221; is heard muttered nearby during his presentation (can you guess that I&#8217;m sitting with the professional journalists?). In fact, when we get beyond the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kk.org\/thetechnium\/archives\/2008\/03\/1000_true_fans.php\">1000 true fans<\/a> who can support an independent rock musician to discussions of hard news (he reminds folks he did used to work at Reuters) Dave admits that he doesn&#8217;t actually think editors and editorial judgment will go away, in fact he predicts an &#8220;explosion of the need for editors and editorial judgment,&#8221; but it will exist  in new structures.<\/p>\n<p>Image: Photo of David Mathison taken on my phone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Mathison, author of Be the Media is opening Sharing the news: Reaching students, training citizens New England News Forum &#8216;s one-day event here at UMass Lowell (watch it live here, follow #nenf on Twitter) Warning: live blogging, expect mistakes. A small group with a mix of community news, students and education folks here, plus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1659,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2221,2793],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cappucino","category-conferences-and-other-gatherings-of-smart-people"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1659"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}