Friday, March 28, 2008

Media Re:Public, part 8

It's 2013: Do you know where your news is?

Paul Steiger, ProPublica. Doing investigation, especially focusing on the abuse of power. In 2013, news will be delivered principally electronically. The beauty of our organizations is that we are funded with the expectations that we will take advertising money.

Jonathan Taplin, USC Annenberg: we will be struggling over commercial overload & personal meta-data making each of us a target. There will be a 2 worlds, one for the rich, personal walled gardens, that is ad-free. The other world that advertising will be so pervasive, you will be accepting a 15 second ad before a phone call.

Jennifer Ferro, KCRW: Devices will come together. For public radio, we need to look at our content differently.

Zittrain: So, will your license to broadcast be irrelevant?

Ferro: Not irrelevant, just deemphasized.