Local media and its audience are not the same as they were ten years ago. According to Jay Rosen, citizen journalists are "the people formerly known as the audience," who "were on the receiving end of a media system that ran one way, in a broadcasting pattern, with high entry fees and a few firms competing to speak very loudly while the rest of the population listened in isolation from one another, and who today are not in a situation like that at all. The people formerly known as the audience are simply the public made realer, less fictional, more able, less predictable."

Join us for a conversation about how traditional media can work with new media to serve the people formerly known as the audience. Can new media make traditional content more relevant to the consumer? Can they be engaged on a deeper level? Is traditional media ready for the many to many conversation?

* Different sources: professional journalists/citizen journalists

* Different media: broadcast/online streaming video, radio/podcast, print/blog

* Different relationship: from one to many to many to many

* What's the role of place blogging networks like metroblogging (http://www.metroblogging.com/)?

* What else can aid hyperlocal news?

UPDATE:

This was written on the blog, but I forgot to add it here.  This event will be held in a World Cafe format, with 3 rounds of small group conversations, punctuated with time for each table to share what they discussed in response to 3 different questions of focus.  We are fortunate to be joined by master facilitator Arian Ward (http://www.communityfrontiers.com/ArianBio.htm) to help lead this discussion.

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