We Media, new and old

Posted by Martin Stabe on 3 May 2006 at 11:44
Tags: Al Jazeera, BBC, Google, Journalism, Online, We Media

In the third sesson of the We Media conference, BBC DG Mark Thompson discused Creative Futures as the BBC’s attempt to wrestle with the changin media environment being discussed here today. Thompson says there will be a “fruitful dialectic” between top-down and bottom-up media in the new BBC 2.0. Similar tones of cooperation and mutual dependency came from Al Jazeera’s Wadeh Khanfar.

Nikesh Arora of Google reiterated the points he made to us some weeks ago: mainstream publications that have been slow to adopt to the new media landscape risk being overtaken by new online upstarts.

The World Association of Newspapers’ Tim Balding says the digital revolution has been a “kick up the backside” for the newspaper industry which has long had the market in analytic news to themselves for a long time. But, he says, newspaper web sites are among the most visited and trusted on the web.

Tags: Al Jazeera, BBC, Google, Journalism, Online, We Media