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DAY TWO: "Business, Technology and the Media: Charting a Course Through Chaos"
Running notes from Bill Densmore from the second day of the two-day symposium, "Business, Technology and the Media: Charting a Course Through Chaos," at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, Missouri School of Journalism. There may be some typos in the moment, which we'll go back and correct later so consider this a work in progress! Also, there's a CoverItLive blog stream underway: WATCH LIVE VIDEO STREAM AND LIVE BLOG
This week's event is an initiative of the interdisciplinary Center for the Digital Globe (CDiG), the Alfred Friendly Foundation and the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI). It involves about 50 international industry leaders in media, technology and business. The idea is to create new business models and it's organized by Randy Smith, Donald W. Reynolds Chair of Business Journalism. Among participants: Mark VandenBrink, vice president of technology solutions for Samsung America; Beth Polish, senior vice president of Hearst Corporate Innovation; Ochieng Rapuro, managing editor of Kenya^Ys Business Daily newspaper; Jim Kennedy, vice president of strategy for The Associated Press; Vin Capone, development executive for Apple; Beth Keck, senior director for WalMart; Jin-Yong Park, assistant editor for Hankook-Ilbo (The Korea Times)and Phil Aucutt, managing partner for WR Holdings and president of Junit, LLC. (For a full list visit http://www.rjionline.org/cdig )
Day Two: Developing new business models and and viable focus areas
Venture capitalist Alan Veeck is leading today's session set up this way: Six round tables assembled in Room 100-A of the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
THOUGHT STARTERS
- What value do news and information provide people in their daily life?
- If people were to pay news and information organizations to do important jobs in their lives, what would those jobs be?
- What value do people get out of creating, sharing or passing on news and information? Whom do they share it with and why?
- What role do you imagine for journalists in the news and information marketplace and what role for others?
- Think about the way a company you admire makes money outside of the news space. What news and information business might you build using its business model?
- Instead of serving everyone (the public), can you define one set of people or a community that would especially value or need your news and information service?
- How are these people getting theire news and information needs met today, if at all?
- What solutions can you create to preserve quality journalism in the next week, two years and in 2020?
