People living in Melbourne (Australia) have an excellent opportunity next week to hear two world leaders (Jay Rosen and Lance Knobel , speak on matters often discussed in this place – the media and innovation.
Here’s the description from the Deakin Lectures website:
How responsive is the mainstream media to innovation? If the photocopier made publishers of nearly everyone, what are the effects of the Internet, SMS messaging and other forms of innovative technology having on the media itself?
Anyone involved in the news and information business should attend this lecture. It promises to be the most insightful forward thinking material we will have heard in this country on this topic for a long time.
Entry is free. Get there half an hour beforehand.
You can get a preview of Jay Rosen’s speech at Press Think (an excellent blog by Rosen about journalism) and in particular in the entry – Each Nation its Own Press. Jay Rosen teaches Journalism at New York University, where has been on the faculty since 1986. He lives in New York City.
Australia’s 4,600 newsagents have built their businesses around their vital and contracted role in the news and information supply chain. The rapid changes in how consumers access news and information will impact newsagents yet as independent small business operators the channel is not likely to have a unified strategy to deal with the change. Newsagent suppliers will evolve their business models to suit the best interests of their shareholders. Newsagents must evolve their business models as well. Planning for such evolution will be well served by attending this lecture.