2. Newspaper Radio TV Computer Phone

3. 1. Trends: Shift Happens 2. The Market Abhors A Vacuum 3. It’s Not Just Newspapers 4. The Evolution To Real-Time News

7. 38% Pew, Jan 2010

8. 26% Pew, 2010

9. 9% Pew, 2006

10. 17% Pew, 2010

11. Trends News Consumption

12. Mid-1980s : 22% 1998 : 21% 2005 : 19% 2008 : 10.8% (1 st 3 qtrs)

20.  1999: Yahoo! buys GeoCities, host to 3.5 million individual Web sites (most abandoned!)  1999: the Poynter Institute starts the “MediaNews” blog  2002: Google buys Blogger; estimate of 500,000 blogs worldwide in total  February 2002: Salon and Fox News add blogs  2003: Iraq war gives rise to war blogger  2009: 6 million blogs on Wordpress.com; >1B monthly pageviews; Yahoo! shutters GeoCities

22. Where Are We Today?  WestSeattleBlog  ProPublica  Spot.us  NYT, WSJ, NPR et al on iPhone, iPad, Android

32.  The Charlotte Observer used a blog format to report on Hurricane Bonnie in August 1998; “Dispatches from the Coast” is the first known use of blog to cover a breaking news story.

33. Increasingly Disintermediated

34. Transmission Networks

35. Transmission Speed

37. A New Genre  D versus @ versus RT  Follow versus Friend (“block”)  Favorites  Broadcast (one-way) versus Converse (two- way)  Nibble v Full Course  Many v Few  TinyUrl et al

40. Twitter & Iran  Amplified voices of dissent  Facilitated misinformation (intentional and unintentional)  Incomplete story  Emotional  Triggered MSM response

43.  The mass audience is dead  Publishing is free (push-button)  The cost of dealing with atoms goes up as readership goes down  Today’s professional listens as well as talks  This is not a cyclical change

46.  Photos are iStockPhoto or fair use:  Crowd, http://www.flickr.com/photos/twose/887903401/http://www.flickr.com/photos/twose/887903401/  Megaphone, http://warkscol.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/superchick_megap hone_logo_hi.jpg http://warkscol.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/superchick_megap hone_logo_hi.jpg  Kent State, photo John Paul Filo, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings  Tank Man, http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/behind- the-scenes-tank-man-of-tiananmen/http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/behind- the-scenes-tank-man-of-tiananmen/  Death of Neda Agha-Solton, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Neda_Agha-Soltan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Neda_Agha-Soltan

47. Kathy E. Gill – http://faculty.washington.edu/kegill or @kegill@kegill – http://wiredpen.com/ and http://slideshare.net/kegill http://wiredpen.com/http://slideshare.net/kegill