the earley edition » future http://earleyedition.com David Earley - exploring digital journalism and cross-platform delivery of new media Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:04:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Future of Journalism – Brisbane http://earleyedition.com/2008/09/17/future-of-journalism-brisbane/ http://earleyedition.com/2008/09/17/future-of-journalism-brisbane/#comments Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:34:24 +0000 Dave Earley http://earleyedition.com/2008/09/17/future-of-journalism-brisbane/ MEAA - Future of Journalism logoI’m not going to go into the Future of Journalism conference last Saturday in any great detail.
There is a post on the Future of Journalism’s Wired Scribe blog with a roundup of several good links to posts by people who were observers and panelists on the day. Interested people can read a roundup there.

You can also read through the live Future of Journalism tweets from various people on the day.

What I’m providing here is just a quick video of a question I asked of news.com.au editor David Higgins about the use of social networking tools for newsgathering.

Video after the jump…

About the conference itself, there wasn’t really a great deal suggested in the way of what the future might actually hold for ‘journalism’. Although for newspapers, a comment by David Higgins is worth noting. He said that more morning commuters were moving to mobile phones for their news instead of newspapers, and suggested the future of the weekday paper in physical form could be in doubt.

“Monday to Friday, I don’t think the outlook’s very good,” he said.

In the process of asking a question from the floor earlier David said that, since they started promoting news.com.au as an iPhone optimised site, traffic was up by more than 50,000 hits per month.

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