From mediagiraffe at journ.umass.edu Thu Jul 17 13:43:54 2008 From: mediagiraffe at journ.umass.edu (Bill Densmore) Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:43:54 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [MGP-Forum Announce] DVD of "The Passion of Place"; hold Oct. 22-25 for Philadelphia Message-ID: To the Media Giraffe/Journalism That Matters community: We've just finished production on a new dvd, "Journalism That Matters: The Passion of Place." It's a studio-produced session, with excellent audio (done at Minnesota Public Radio) and a two-camera mix. You can preview it on Archive.org: http://www.archive.org/details/JournalismThatMattersMPR PROGRAM NOTE: See: http://newshare.typepad.com/mgpaudio/2008/07/audio-finding-t.html Finding the passion of place -- the new pamphleteers What motivates people to launch a local online news community -- a "placeblog" and what are their challenges, their successes, the opportunities, vision and passion which accompany this work? Twelve citizen-journalists -- "placebloggers" -- gathered on Friday, June 6, 2008, for a one-hour conversation at Minnesota Public Radio. Listen to the audio stream of their conversation by clicking on the carat of the bar below. Or download an MP3 podcast for offline listening. Moderated by Bill Densmore, director of the Media Giraffe Project at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. ORDER THE DVD: A DVD may be ordered for $19, from this link (allow two weeks for shipping): http://www.mediagiraffe.org/video The video may be shown for non-profit or educational purposes, as long as it is not remixed and it is properly attributed to "The Media Giraffe Project's Journalism That Matters initiative," with a link to: http://www.journalismthatmatters.org It was produced with support from The Blandin Foundation, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and the Media Giraffe Project at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Be sure also to look at the other resources from our June 4-6 "New Pamphleteers/New Reporters" convening in Minnesota: http://www.newpamphleteers.org http://newshare.typepad.com/mgpaudio/pamphleteers/index.html =============================== HOLD THE DATE / NEXT CONVENING Philadelphia, Oct. 22-25, 2008 =============================== We're pleased to announce that the Media Giraffe Project is teaming up with Temple University's Media Education Laboratory and several other (still tentative) academic partners for: "Rebooting the News: Reconsidering an Agenda for American Civic Education" Oct. 23-25, 2008 / Philadelphia, Pa. We're working closely with the American Society of Newspaper Editors and the journalism program at Stony Brook University, both of which have made major commitments to news-literacy education. The key public convening on the topic will be in March at Stony Brook. The smaller Philadelphia convening will be designed, among other things, to initiate ideas and collaboration for the Stony Brook gathering. Here's the preview web page for the event: http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Reboot-home Part of this convening is by-invitation only. If you would like to be considered for an invite, email a proposal to reboot at mediagiraffe.org A link to registration should be available July 23. If you want a reminder when registration opens, also email reboot at mediagiraffe.org Hope to see some of you in Philadelphia! ------------------------------------- Bill Densmore, director/editor The Media Giraffe Project Journalism Program 108 Bartlett Hall Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst MA 01003 OFF: 413-577-4370 / CELL: 413-458-8001 densmore at journ.umass.edu ********************************************************* WATCH/LISTEN TO THE WRAPUPS . . . A PASSION FOR PLACE: New Pamphleteers/New Reporters -- Convening Entrepreneurs Who Combine Journalism, Democracy, Place and Blogs June 4-6, 2008 / Minneapolis, Minn. http://www.newpamphleteers.org JOIN THE NETWORK: http://jtm2008.ning.com/?xgi=6YNLL4g JOIN THE LISTSERV: http://groups.google.com/group/jtmlist/subscribe *********************************************************