We Media: See the Change. Be the Change.
March 8th, 2010 by Renzi Stone. Posted in Industry Expertise
I’m headed to Miami this week for We Media, a collection of media innovators, researchers, journalists and big thinkers who will dig deep to understand what’s next for media. Part of the conference is sponsored by Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, led by my friend, Bob Ross. I’m honored to be a part of the panel discussion on Why Community Matters with Chris Tolles, CEO of Topix.
Chris asks a few key questions in his recent blog post about the role of local media. I liked the direction Chris is going with the discussion with an excerpt of his comments here.
“When I think about ‘Community Matters’, it occurs to me that the question is what is the purpose of community? Is it to extol content for the community? Or is it to generate content that the community creates? And then, the larger question becomes how to monetize ‘community’? There are 2 billion users coming online in the next ten years. How do we monetize the value of their content? And, further, how do we deal with “truth” in community-generated journalism? On a community site, truth is subjective. Newspapers must be very cautious about libel issues, and objectionable content is muted.”
I’d like to position a few thoughts for attendees and observers to think about prior to Wednesday’s session.
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