The Journalism and Media Studies Centre invites you to a public seminar
on:
Journalism 2.0: The Future of News
Speaker: Rebecca
MacKinnon, Assistant Professor,
Journalism and
Media Studies Centre, The University of Hong
Kong
Date: November 3, 2006 (Friday)
Time: 11:00 a.m.
to 12:30 p.m.
Venue: Foundation Chamber, G/F, Eliot Hall, The
University of Hong Kong
About the
Seminar
Thanks to the World Wide Web, professionals have lost control
over information. In the U.S., bloggers have brought down powerful
news anchors and politicians. Traditional news organizations (Journalism
1.0) in many countries are watching their business models crumble and
laying off seasoned reporters. Meanwhile, young people are turning to
new-media companies like Yahoo and Google -- along with peer-produced media
on blogs, YouTube and MySpace -- as their primary source of news and
information. There is no turning back. But where are we going from here? Can
quality journalism survive in the Internet age? Could Journalism 2.0 serve
the public interest more fully, democratically, and inclusively than
Journalism 1.0? How might professional journalists, bloggers, and online
"citizen journalists" work
together to serve the public? What is the future
of good journalism that is financially sustainable? Last but not least, what
does Journalism 2.0 mean for China?
About the Speaker
Rebecca
MacKinnon is a veteran journalist and innovator in online
citizens' media.
She is co-founder of Global Voices Online
( globalvoicesonline.org), a citizens
media network. At Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and
Society from mid-2004 through 2006, she became an expert on the Internet and
freedom of speech in China. She also studied the relationship between
international news and online participatory media as a fellow at
the Shorestein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at
Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. (See her weblog
at RConversation.com ). Fluent in Mandarin, she worked for CNN for more
than a decade, serving as CNN's Beijing bureau chief and correspondent
from 1998-2001 and as bureau chief and
correspondent in Tokyo from 2001-03.
She also has covered major
news events in North and South Korea, Pakistan,
and the Philippines. She is originally from Tempe, Arizona, and is a
graduate of Harvard.