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Guardian Student Media Conference: The hacks of tomorrow
By Steve Busfield http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/organgrinder/2006/11/guardian_student_media_confere.html
I have just been at the Guardian's Student Media Conference and one message came through loud and clear: the journalists of tomorrow still have a touching faith in the future of newsprint.
Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger opened the conference and took the audience on a stroll through the future of newspapers. How journalists will need to be multi-skilled (although not necessarily all of them all of the time). How newspapers used to compete against each other but are now competing against a wide variety of media (the BBC, Reuters, Google, YouTube etc etc etc). How the economic model of newspaper organisations is changing. How newspapers need to stay true to their values: Whether on the web or in print, news organisations need to maintain the trust of their readers.
I then chaired a session about the digital age, featuring Georgina Henry, the editor of Commentisfree, and BBC online political correspondent Nick Assinder.
What most intrigued me was that the students - the supposed Web 2.0 generation - still believe in newspapers and have yet to fully embrace the internet. Some students described their websites as the place they put copy that isn't good enough to get into the paper. They spoke of chill winds blowing through their websites.
When they reach the big wide world, they will find newspaper organisations charging headlong into the digital future. Only time will tell whether the Guardian Media Group, Telegraph Media, the various arms of Daily Mail and General Trust, et al, have got it right.
Further sessions looked at "The future of Sky News", BBC correspondent Fergal Keane on reporting from the world's hotspots, and a host of my Guardian colleagues sharing their experiences. I hope we haven't put the hacks of tomorrow off.
Tonight some of those students will be winners at the Guardian Student Media Awards.
My comments: I think that newspapers are just as important as the internet or any other form of the media. Although the internet allows people to read articles from the newspapers anyway so in a way people are still reading papers just not being a consumer to buy them.
Guardian Student Media Conference: The hacks of tomorrow
By Steve Busfield http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/organgrinder/2006/11/guardian_student_media_confere.html
I have just been at the Guardian's Student Media Conference and one message came through loud and clear: the journalists of tomorrow still have a touching faith in the future of newsprint.
Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger opened the conference and took the audience on a stroll through the future of newspapers. How journalists will need to be multi-skilled (although not necessarily all of them all of the time). How newspapers used to compete against each other but are now competing against a wide variety of media (the BBC, Reuters, Google, YouTube etc etc etc). How the economic model of newspaper organisations is changing. How newspapers need to stay true to their values: Whether on the web or in print, news organisations need to maintain the trust of their readers.
I then chaired a session about the digital age, featuring Georgina Henry, the editor of Commentisfree, and BBC online political correspondent Nick Assinder.
What most intrigued me was that the students - the supposed Web 2.0 generation - still believe in newspapers and have yet to fully embrace the internet. Some students described their websites as the place they put copy that isn't good enough to get into the paper. They spoke of chill winds blowing through their websites.
When they reach the big wide world, they will find newspaper organisations charging headlong into the digital future. Only time will tell whether the Guardian Media Group, Telegraph Media, the various arms of Daily Mail and General Trust, et al, have got it right.
Further sessions looked at "The future of Sky News", BBC correspondent Fergal Keane on reporting from the world's hotspots, and a host of my Guardian colleagues sharing their experiences. I hope we haven't put the hacks of tomorrow off.
Tonight some of those students will be winners at the Guardian Student Media Awards.
My comments: I think that newspapers are just as important as the internet or any other form of the media. Although the internet allows people to read articles from the newspapers anyway so in a way people are still reading papers just not being a consumer to buy them.
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