We’re going to be participating in what promises to be a small, lively forum next week, with some of the world’s top publishers, high tech execs, and business leaders…on the future of American journalism, and we’d love to get your ideas on what you might want addressed.
Called “Of the Press: Models for Preserving American Journalism,” it’s being sponsored by the prestigious Colorado-based Aspen Institute Forum on Communications and Society. The Aspen Institute’s CEO Walter Isaacson, who has been CNN’s Chairman and CEO, as well as Time Magazine’s Executive Editor, has invited 50 participants to examine and IMPROVE ON three types of models:
1) How would you create and staff a new news organization for a large metropolitan community?
2) Same as above, but for a hyper-local model?
3) And what kind of payment model would you create so enterprise journalism could flourish?
Of course, number 3 is what interests us the most, but like all the participants, we’ll be asked to share our opinions on all three questions.
The group of 50 will include Dean Singleton, CEO of MediaNews…online media mavens Paul Steiger, Editor-in-chief and CEO of ProPublica; and Richard Gingras, CEO of Salon…Editor Marcus Brauchli, Washington Post; former editors John Carroll, LA Times; and Mike Fancher, Seattle Times…high tech execs Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist; Marissa Mayer, VP of Search Products for Google; Brad Smith, Senior VP for Microsoft, John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla…public radio CEOs Vivian Schiller of NPR; and Bill Kling from American Public Media…academics Jon Funabiki, Professor of Journalism at SF State; and Stephen Shepard, Founding Dean at the Graduate School of Journalism, City University of New York…and government officials like former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright; and Jon Leibowitz, Chairman of the FCC.
Gordon Crovitz from Journalism Online; and our founder, Cynthia Typaldos, of Kachingle, will offer perspectives of alternative monetization models. You can find a complete list by clicking here…
It should be fun. But any suggestions or comments you want to send our way would be welcomed. You can find a link for the conference by clicking here.
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