The good folks at the Twin Cities Media Alliance -- best known for their work producing Twin Cities Daily Planet -- (click here for schedule and registration info) are staging a day-long event this Saturday at the Central Library in downtown Minneapolis. Major next generation publishers and journalists will be in attendance. While some of us may look like critters out of a previous generation, if you're interested in what is going down in journalism and what is coming next in terms of on-line newspapers -- like MinnPost.com and The Daily Mole, both mentioned here numerous times -- you'll find this worth your time. Or, you can always just heckle.
Robert McChesney,
U of Illinois professor and author of the excellent book, Rich Media,
Poor Democracy, will deliver the keynote speech at around 10:50 AM.
(The event runs from 9AM to 3 PM, and is free but you must register if you want a box lunch.)
Immediately prior to McChesney's talk, a panel titled "The Future of
News: What Role for Journalists?" will include local heavyweights Joel
Kramer, (former Strib editor and publisher, now heading up MinnPost), Steve Perry (former City Pages editor, leading The Daily Mole, Eric Black, (former Strib writer now publishing at ericblackink.com,
Matt Thompson, the Strib's deputy editor for interactive content, and,
for comic effect, yours truly. The panel will be moderated by veteran
writer/poet Rich Broderick, who blogs at The Daily Planet
.
RYBAK: Didn't you just tell me to re-apply lipstick after puckering up to a subject in another post. Back at you, Hot Lips.....
[The following comments were copied from the old site.]
Thanks for the plug - actually, registration is requested, not required - unless you want to order lunch.
~Posted by: Jeremy at October 31, 2007 11:42 AM
You better check with Cohen and make sure the library's open on Saturday.
If it rains, I'm there.
LAMBERT: I expect to see Dan in the front row.
~Posted by: jimmy at October 31, 2007 12:56 PM
I'm sorry I'm going to miss it (sad to say, I'll be in L.A. for a set visit at Nip/Tuck, assuming they're still in production).
But this is a great time to be an independent media site or journalist. Lots of new ideas locally, and a lot of competiton.
BTW, Brian, I heard a bit of your appearance Tuesday afternoon and 107.1. As always, you sounded great, but I love hearing you try and feign interest in Paris Hilton.
LAMBERT: As one of my personal heroes, the movie director Sam Peckinpah put it, describing himself, "I'm just an old whore. I go where I'm kicked."
Rick Ellis, here in the Twin Cities, covers TV at, (as you can see), www.allyourtv.com. It's good stuff. I recommend people check it out.
~Posted by: Rick Ellis at October 31, 2007 02:28 PM
Coincidentally, I am hosting a special conclave that same evening at Brit's: "The Future of Commission: What Role for Sales People?".
As one of my heroes, Andrew Carnegie said, "You can take away my factories, but leave me my sales people and I'll be back where I was in no time".
When you all get done whipping yourselves into a "new media frenzy", and have valid revenue model, do call!
LAMBERT: God help me, I fear the "product" you might sell.
~Posted by: bertram jr at October 31, 2007 03:16 PM
If you want proof that today's media racket is infested by wanker wusses who couldn't hold a candle to a Wayne Wangstad or Paul Presbey, these sissies are holding their big stupid LET'S TALK ABOUT US Crisco Fest the day the DEER SEASON OPENS IN MINNESOTA.. Then again, none of 'em know how to tell a buck from a doe.
LAMBERT: A buck's got the horns on the front, right?
~Posted by: Frank Premack at October 31, 2007 03:59 PM
"As one of my heroes, Andrew Carnegie said, "You can take away my factories, but leave me my sales people and I'll be back where I was in no time"....
Seems to me that's what Joel Kramer is doing with MinnPost.com. He has shed the "factory" of the ink, newsprint, trucks and presses, while being virtually handed a staff of "sales people" from the downsized Star Tribune and Pioneer Press. Those old-media fools are the ones hanging onto the factories while dumping the sales force.
~Posted by: Ethics 101 at November 1, 2007 10:01 AM
Precisely....
~Posted by: bertram jr at November 1, 2007 01:49 PM