The Future of Journalism

[UPDATE: Good coverage from The New York Observer on the event below.]

I just attended a lively panel discussion at NYU’s J-school, entitled, “The Future of Media: 2009,” which featured major players from newspaper, magazine, and blogging worlds. A video will go up soon at I Want Media, which sponsored the event. In the meantime, here’s two soundbites from my notes:

Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter: There’s a “need to provide a cohesive story” to tweets. “Getting into the massive repository with no context is a little overwhelming.”

Bonnie Fuller, former editor of US Weekly: “Twitter has tapped into this enormous need of people to be stars in their own lives.” She likens Twitter “to your own reality show.”

There were a number of interesting conversation threads, such as a few fanciful thoughts on how to monetize newspaper journalism in the digital age (via Bonnie Fuller), why most print reporters make for lousy bloggers (via Nick Denton–of course), and so on.  Nick David Carr was there for the NY Times. Maybe he’ll cover it in his media column.

I’ll have more later.