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Do You Really Need a Brick and Mortar Newsroom?

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Organization: VMIX Media

Title: VP, Product Development

Location: San Diego

About Me: I am VP, Product Development for VMIX Media, a young technology company providing rich media and community tools to nearly 200 newspaper, tv, and radio stations.

Share your thoughts about how the newsroom of the future should be different . (And if you do, please post a copy of your answer in the forums).: Ummm....still processing that one a bit. I think that it will be more interactive, delivered electronically, and provide value by separating the signal from the noise out of everything on the Internet. Unfortunately for newspaper staff, I think that it will also be much smaller.

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Do newspapers get it?

As mentioned in my previous post, I work for a software company offering a variety of web 2.0 services of user-generated media, comments & ratings, blogs, and forums to the newspaper industry. As a vendor, it has been extremely frustrating to get newspapers to adopt, or especially actively promote and encourage this level of interactivity. I think that true journalism is a critical part of a functioning democracy, but their state of paralysis risks making them increasingly irrelevant in a co… Continue

Posted on January 16, 2008 at 10:01pm — 3 Comments

My angle on the Next Newsroom

I am not a journalist, and have never wanted to be. While I try to stay on top of the news, I havent subscribed to a newspaper in over a decade, and when I did it did more to fill my recycling bin than anything else. I read the Chronicle, but didn't even know where there offices were.

So, what in the world am I doing here?

Well, for starters I was at Duke with Chris O'Brien, and either through random chance or cosmic destiny, I bumped across his profile on facebook. Other than… Continue

Posted on January 16, 2008 at 9:23pm —

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At 5:28pm on March 30, 2008, Greg Linch said…: Hi Ed,
I saw you are attending the conference and just wanted to introduce myself.

At 10:30pm on March 10, 2008, Chris O'Brien said…: Yes, $50 to register; $20 for optional dinner on Friday night.

At 11:43am on March 5, 2008, Ed MacBean said…: that worked :) The only thing that I dont see on there are the fees for the conference ~ if I remember they were pretty nominal.

At 10:50pm on March 4, 2008, Chris O'Brien said…: Okay: I'm a dope. I just realized I had it set to private, rather than public. Try again. And sorry for making this a pain in neck...

At 10:31pm on March 4, 2008, Ed MacBean said…: It is not letting me see/do anything without logging in first.

At 9:36pm on March 4, 2008, Chris O'Brien said…: Hey...I don't want to over complicate: Can you see the front page of the wiki? If so, that's all there is to see right now. You shouldn't need a password to see that. If you it's telling you need a password, let me know and I'll tinker with it.

At 3:13pm on March 4, 2008, Ed MacBean said…: it is requiring a wiki password/invite key. I can register for pbwiki, but it looks like I might still need a key to get to the NNR wiki page.

At 10:08pm on March 3, 2008, Chris O'Brien said…: Ed: Check out: http://wiki.nextnewsroom.com

There should be a regisration link to the top left of your page...

At 10:17am on February 23, 2008, Chris O'Brien said…: Ed: Do you have your own blog elsewhere? If so, send me the feed (or post it here)...Also, please think about coming to the conference!