Some of the luminaries of the blogging and journo world(s) are gathered at Harvard for a confab on, well, journalism and blogging. Since anonymous proprietors of not-yet-launched businesses didn't make the invite list, we'll rely on others for the lowdown:
- Jarvis is semi-live-blogging the event.
- Jay [Rosen]: "Actually, they're working for an online newspaper that has a print edition."
- Chris Lydon gives us his best Emerson quote ever: "Do not destroy the mass media but liberate the individual from the mass."
- Via Ed Cone, John Robinson (emph mine):
News is a conversation, not a lecture. My readers know more than I do. Journalism is a function; blogging is a form.Look, we're going to continue to pay staff members to "cover the community," to monitor the powerful, to give voice to the voiceless, to shine light in dark place, to do all those things that people like me got into the business to do. That's journalism. That's giving citizens the information they need to self-govern. Readers are smart enough to believe us. If we're good, if we blog wisely, if we let readers in the door and help us, if we tell their stories and let them tell their stories, they will trust us. It's all good.
Everything else is BS.
- And for those who need The Official Imprimatur, the WSJ spills some ink on it.
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