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ENGLISH - International Journalism Festival #IJF13
Free English feed of the IJF13 from Perugia, Italy, 24-28th April 2013. The festival lineup includes: Harper Reed, Mathew Ingram,Yoani Sanchez and Emily Bell.
TOP INTERNATIONAL SPEAKERS
- Aron Pilhoffer, NY TIMES
- Eric Carvin, AP
- Anthony De Rosa, Reuters
- Steve Buttry, Digital First Media
- Natalia Sindeeva, Russian Independent TV Rain
- Chenggang Rui, director China Central Television
- Bill Emmott, former Economist
- Kevin Bleyer, speechwriter Barack Obama
- Paul Lewis, Guardian
- Heather Brooke, activist and author
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Anna Masera asks what Emily thinks about Pro Publica
Emily: people gave Pro Publica and HuffPost no credit, people thought they were not going to make it. Both proved critics wrong. Pro Publica's No Profit is still a business model. They use phenomenal new techniques to generate stories intersecting data reporting with social network. You might call it crowd-sourcing, ex examining contract superpacks amongst news channels investigation.
They scaled a business model based on an algorithm instead of sourcing it to few people, and it proved to be successful. And HuffPost proved to be scalable too. -
If journalists are changing, how should editor change accordingly?
Emily: They are usually the most important but also expensive role. Editors have to be producers as well. People want to see the metaprocess of how you produces news. You'll have to display how is your news gathering and news writing process to the community - it should be part of the news brand. -
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REAL-LIFE GEMS IN THIS DREAMY PERUGIA, #IJF13
Harper Reedda ik0mmi in 14.30
#ijf13 Baci da @gbocciada letizias via Instagram in 13.18
Live da Perugia: il keynote di @emilybell #ijf13da iakigram via Instagram in 14.00
#ijf13 #press #festival #journalismda vikingdrum via Instagram in 14.08
Keynote speech di Emily Bell alla Sala dei Notari #ijf13da reggaeroland via Instagram in 14.13
Swimming pool of the Brufani Hotel in Perugia, Italy #ijf13 #perugia #italyda anto_l via Instagram in 14.30PreviousNext1 of 6
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Emily Bell
You need to be really quick and really good. The question of how quick is irrelevant. Everybody, long or short form, need to be part of the conversation in real-time. Sometimes in networks not belonging to your organisation, but you need to be there so people trust you when you make an intervention.
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RT @stevebuttry: Did Twitter shorten readers’ attention span? @emilybell says she reads more long stuff than ever from Twitter links. #ijf13da Eleonore de Bonneval tramite twitter 4/27/2013 10:40:51 AM -
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Question from Steve Buttry about ethical challenges.
Emily: the stream and the personality and the transparency of a journalist has become fundamental, and it is ultimately down to you as a journalist.
lillosabato 27 aprile 2013 a 12:41In the tech-blogging community the founder of Tech Crunch said very publicly that he takes money from tech companies sponsoring articles on the website. The model is shifting. The crucial decision is to be transparent about your fundings. The more you are, the more you'll have a sustainable audience.
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Question from the audience All newspapers in Italy are working towards a better integration between paper and online. Is this a sustainable model?
Good question. People tend to make faster progresses when things are not integrated. If you accept the print is going away in the not-too-distant future... if you accept that, the fact that digital operations will be key... then it'll make sense to work for both. If not, it does not make sense. If you are in the middle, it feels right to build a bridge. You'll see a trend now of people saying:DON'T INTEGRATE, FIND OTHER WAYS. Cost cutting will be unavoidable, but for good.
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#emilybell "don't integrate web and paper newsrooms, dis-integrate them" @Daniele_Manca #ijf13 #ijftobagida carl tramite twitter 4/27/2013 10:48:12 AM -
Anna Masera: how much time is left if we don't follow your model?
There is no one right recipe. There are different markets and environements. It really is dictated by who your readership is. If they are under 25, and you don't reach to them on social media and mobile, you'll never catch your readership, and lose -- AND DIE (I add this, muahhahaha)
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RT @annamasera: #ijf13 @emilybell to newsrooms: "Don't integrate, disintegrate!"da egorego tramite twitter 4/27/2013 10:51:20 AM -
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Son finito nella foto di “@annamasera: #ijf13 in attesa di @yoanisanchez e @mariocalabresi la Sala Notari è piena http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BI9iF0xCMAABl2s.jpg”da Mario Gottardi in domenica 28 aprile 2013 a 21:23 via
RT @the_thinredline: .@_arianna @mariocalabresi @yoanisanchez #ijf13 http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BI9i6OuCAAAFu2m.jpgda arianna ciccone in domenica 28 aprile 2013 a 21:24 via
la sala piena per @yoanisanchez #ijf13 @gabrimorelli http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BI9j-a5CYAMKBRf.jpgda pierpaololala in domenica 28 aprile 2013 a 21:27 viaPreviousNext1 of 3
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Calabresi: Yoani has no political platform. Her blog mirrors Columbia University's motto "Show, not tell". What she does is recounting Cuban everyday life, from Christmas celebrations to the queue at the post office. It gives you an idea on how people live in Cuba.
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INTERVIENE LA POLIZIA
Proteste interrompono convegno con @yoanisanchez #ijf13 http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BI9l05hCMAALN8c.jpg -
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#ijf13 i castristi hanno invaso la Sala Notari urlando slogan accuse e minacce contro @yoanisanchez http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BI9mtHxCUAA7t3D.jpgda annamasera in domenica 28 aprile 2013 a 21:39 via
“@LuiCaput: Parte la contestazione contro @yoanisanchez da parte di gruppo 26 julio. @_arianna grida vergogna #ijf13 http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BI9mO5mCQAEIrmF.jpg”da StellaMaris18 in domenica 28 aprile 2013 a 21:39 via
Il gruppo dei Generación G viene cacciato dalla sala dei Notari. "Vergognatevi" urla @_arianna #ijf13 http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BI9mz-ICIAA6fVq.jpgda Laura M in domenica 28 aprile 2013 a 21:39 viaPreviousNext1 of 3
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And the IJF13 ended with an exciting bang.
Cuba dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez has been confronted by pro-Castro fanatics at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia
A group of around twenty demonstrators accused Sanchez of being pro-American, shouting "Yes to Cuba, no to Yankee" and throwing fake dollars with the face of Sanchez in it. They demanded the release of the Cuban Five, also known as the Miami Five (Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, Ramón Labañino, Fernando González, and René González) who were convicted in Miami of conspiracy to committ espionage, murder and acting as an agent of a foreign government in the US. The group left the room singing Bella Ciao, an old Communist song used by Italian anti-Fascist partisans.
Today it was the day of the shooting in front of the Italian premier's office, Palazzo Chigi, Rome, in which two Carabinieri police officers have been wounded. This obviously sparked vivid reactions amongst the community of active twitterers (also called journalists) gathered at the IJF13.
A heated debates took place also when a panel discussion was held to analyse the Five Star Movement. Grillo's supporters vehemently contested the journalists who were debating.
Big bang day for a big bang festival. It has been a great occasion for journalists to rub shoulders with each other, being told they need to change everything or being prepared to die and pleasantly breath some new fresh air from abroad.
Hopefully the wind of change will hit Italian journalism shores soon. In the meantime, let me thank you for your attention and participation.
It has been hard to liveblog it all alone, in English, but I did what I could to - at least - try to make you feel you were here, with us, tirelessly ping-balling from one debate to another while thinking and tweeting.
See you next year. -
