Staying in the same room, where Mike Tippet, Mark Schneider, and Robert Ouimet are talking about the changing face of journalism. This probably going to be similar to what was talked about yesterday during Moosecamp. Here are some notes:
- We are experiencing an existential moment in the news.
- Readers can now make their own news, and they are going online to consume news.
- Michael Tippet essentially gave an overview of NowPublic and the circumstances that allowed it to exist.
- Robert Ouimet is from CBC, and is talking about how news is changing.
- He asked how many people in the room watch the 6 oclock news – very few hands went up!
- Mark Schneider is now sharing his journalistic background. He says the truth of the matter is, the news is really sick. There’s a toxic quality about what we are consuming. The news organizations themselves have been tainted.
- Now we’re on to discussion. Not many notes on this session – it was very interesting, but much harder to write stuff down. I am getting hungry for lunch too, maybe that has something to do with it!
- Mark says there is something called NewsML (markup language) in the works.
- Robert: focus is important, and is taught to journalism students and employees, but is an exercise in rejecting everything else.
Really great discussion in this session!
MasterMaq's Blog 
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TV News is now sensationalist rubbish which uses leaders two hours early like "what you need to know before you go out to your local restaurant". It’s pitiful and insulting to watch the way anchors interview members of the public (especially those involved in disaster/incident recover/management) to get drama-blood out of an unwilling stone.
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