John Harris of Politico and Mark Halperin, TIME’s Senior Political Analyst, are giving a session on political reporting and the 2008 elections.
Mark Halperin went to Harvard, but didn’t work for The Crimson. Still became a journalist though.
From Jackie Calmes:
“Obama’s a prickly guy and the press all know that and I think it’s reflected in his coverage some.”
And on Clinton.
In ‘93 and ‘94 when her healthcare plan she began to take all criticism of it personally, and ever since then has never really recovered from that.
Josh Benton from the Dallas Morning News just gave a presentation on “Web Tools, Blogging and Multimedia Reporting.” What he really did was give a wake up call to an audience of journalism students, or rather (old men) who are very stuck in the ways and nostalgia of print journalism.
I’m glad to say my friend here, a dead tree and typewriter reporter if there ever was one, has experienced what he calls a total conversion, and offered to come learn and shoot video. The rest of the audience seemed similarly woken.
Josh Benton from the Dallas Morning News “The people who are drawn to newspapers are the very conservative people (small c) who love the smell of newsprint in the morning.”
Journalism is like the priesthood in that it attracts more conservative people, and so over time, filtering it like that, the profession becomes more and more conservative.
“Ivy League newspaper protectionism”
It’s very easy to develop the newspaper habit because it’s free and easily available and has no competition. Once you leave school, this all changes.
I’m heading to Harvard today for the 2008 Georges Conference, hosted by Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism. Strangely, I can’t find any information about the conference online at the Nieman Foundation’s website, and searching for it only brings up this site from last year’s “fourth annual” conference. Here’s the schedule for this year’s conference.
I’ll keep updating as the day goes on.
This seems to be quite the weekend for conferences though. NextNewsroom is happening in South Carolina. I’ve been following it, vaguely live, here on Innovation in College Media. Meanwhile, part of the dailypennsylvanian.com team is headed to Yale for the Yale Daily News’s first ever Web Conference. We’re the only College Publisher hosted site going, and hopefully they can come back having picked the brains of the people at the Cornell Daily Sun and Columbia Spectator, both of whom use Drupal.
It looks like the Spectator has built their site making writers into a CCK node type, while the Cornell Daily Sun is using Drupal’s default user management, with whoever enters the article into the CMS listed as the author. This fits more in with this very ambitious proposal to manage story workflow and assigning online.
Fun stuff.
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