Tomorrow will see the release of part of a major study into the way news and journalism is changing in the digital age.
At a seminar titled New Media: Old News: Journalism and Democracy in a Digital Age the research team from Goldsmiths, London will reveal some of their their findings.
The work is part of five individual projects being carried out by Goldsmiths Media Research Centre.
Project One, Spaces of News considers “the spaces of news gathering and the dispersal of news sources in the age of blogging and camera phones.”
It promises to be meaty stuff and I shall be doing said blogging and taking along my camera phone in a bid to post some of the main findings here.
Along with journalists at the Guardian and BBC, academic Tamara Witschge spent some time with me at the M.E.N looking at our print and online operation.
So I’m certainly fascinated to see what the team concludes.
Tomorrow’s debate, chaired by Anne Spackman, comment editor of The Times and responded to by The Guardian’s Emily Bell is being held in front of an invited panel and I’ll do my best to Twitter some of the proceedings @foodiesarah.
Background reading to the debate is available to read (but not quote from) here;
http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/media-research-centre/new-media-old-news.php
Dim Sum Digital 
Sarah
Do you ever do tours of the MEN newsroom? I suspect a lot of PRs/trad journos would be fascinated as to the positioning of the teams that manage content. I would
Cheers
Simon
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Sarah
I would definitely love to join Simon on a proper tour of the interface between the MEN’s online/print media and talk deadlines/presentation/links etc.
Sorry if itt seems like we are inviting ourselves over!
But if it could happen, please put Simon then me at the top of your list…
best wishes
Andy
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Simon – there was a visit arranged by Sarah a couple of months ago or so. It was good. I blogged/waffled about it at Ear I Am
http://eariam.blogspot.com/2008/09/murder-at-manchester-evening-news.html
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Hi Simon and Andy
We do regularly have tours of the newsroom – usually it tends to be students rather then professionals. There the groups organise them direct with Helen Read who runs the scheme (brilliantly).
I’m away from the office at the moment but leave it with me and I’ll find find out about the potential for a pr/journo event.
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Sarah – do you have a link to the report?
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Hi Mark – I’ve put all the links to te report in the latest blog posting however I notice that they’ve deactivated all the links through to the chapters at present although the page does suggest they will all be available soon.
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