Panel Discussion: Influence of Journalists and Bloggers

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Possible Topics

  • Katrina/flood focus
  • Discussion of Nicholas Lemann's Amateur Hour in The New Yorker
  • Blogs reborn as chronicles
  • Relevance of MSM in reporting on-the-ground facts
  • Disaster-tainment vs. News That Works & Knowledge Bases
  • More than a newsletter with an online voice and reach?

Panelists Thus Far

  • Jon Donley - the founding editor of NOLA.com, the web affiliate of The Times-Picayune of New Orleans - nola.com forums - Dawnsinger - As Mark Folse says, "I immediately thought about [Jon] as someone who bridges the word between traditional media and the on-line world, as well as someone who played a pivotal role in the events of last year as NOLA.Com became one of the primary information sources."
  • Daisy Pignetti a.k.a. Doctor Daisy - "I don't want to make my comments too academic (believe me when I tell you I am a laid back PhD student who is doing it more for the title than to coop myself up into an ivory tower!), but I am planning to focus much of my dissertation on this topic and could give a brief overview of the impact of blogs, as well as my story and how I had nowhere to turn but the Internet for the real story about neighborhoods I lived in and love."
  • Troy Gilbert of GulfSails - "I'd be happy to help. I've been following the whole RT shebang and have been pretty interested." Troy is a freelance journalist and New Orleans blogger who remained in the city throughout the storm and the aftermath.
  • Invite sent to Mike Keller & Josh Norman, Mississippi Sun-Herald reporters behind the Eye of the Storm blog
  • Interdictor - not invited yet
  • Invite sent to Da Po Blog - Mark Folse: "I wish DPB would put on a mask and come, because of his excellent work (which I intend to call out during the panel) on tracking where the federal funding was coming from, how much, and where it went. He was consistently ahead of all the other media on that story, and it's such an excellent example of the power of blogging as media."
  • Please help Mark Folse find the name of the fellow who ran WWL-TV's blog in the immediate months after, who also did a bang-up job of using a blog as a primary news reporting medium.

Suggestions

you should invite the following author/reporter for the picayune: Mark Schleifstein (co author of Path of Destruction (release date of 8/16/06)[1]) Chris Rose (you know the columnist) Jed Horne (wrote Breach of Faith on Katrina) call the newsroom and ask for each (504-826-3300)

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