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We'll be among the bloggers covering speeches by Sens. McCain, Obama and Clinton (in that order) at this year's annual convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. We hope you'll join us. (I'm not using the royal "we" -- I'm expecting at least one other BlogHer CE to join me.) In the meantime, feel free to share your thoughts either about the election, or about the news coverage of the election to date.
This year's convention is a joint production with the Newspaper Association of America and their annual trade show, Nexpo. This is the first year that the three events have been combined. It's also the first year that bloggers will be credentialed to cover the event, through an agreement with the Media Bloggers Association.
The newspaper industry is in such a state of disarray that according to blogger Mark van Patten, Gary Pruitt, the CEO of McClatchy, one of the nation's largest chains, says news execs shouldn't even bother coming to to the annual confab. Ironically, Pruitt will sworn in as the NAA's president at the conference.
One of the panels at the convention will focus on young readers. Carolyn Lo of the Editors' Weblog relays blogger Maegan Carberry's analysis of where most newspapers' efforts to attract young readers go wrong:
Carberry believes the focus should not be details such as a font or layout change, but instead, building a "new approach to journalism." This includes the building of multimedia communities with social networking tools to "define what is newsworthy" while keeping in mind the task of "delivering fair and accurate accounts of the relevant news and analysis of our time." Then "technology will deliver it in the packaging that makes sense."
That's observation may explain why a site such as BlogHer appears to draw a significant share of young community members. It's also the premise behind an experimental hyperlocal news site for Lawrenceville, New Jersey that I'm building with my interactive journalism class. Our project isn't specifically directed at young news consumers, but it will be interesting to see whether we'll manage to pique their interest.
I hope that your interest will be piqued as well. Here's the schedule of live-blogs. All times are Eastern Standard Time. You can check your time zone here:
- April 14th 10:30 am -12:15 pm --Sen. John Mc Cain will speak at the Associated Press annual meeting.
- April 14th 1:00 -2:30 pm -- Sen. Barack Obama will speak at AP annual luncheon.
- April 15th 12:45-2:30 pm -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will speak at the Capitol Conference Luncheon
