There are many reasons for people to blog: Keeping their family updated, sharing some nice cat (or owl!) content, earning a living by seeding Ebuzzing videos – or holding the mainstream media accountable. “And what are the quality control issues?”, you might ask. Well, this is exactly the question we will discuss this weekend:
MediaWise, the EU MediaAct project and the NUJ New Media Industrial Council organised a “weekend of debate and discussion” in Bristol – and we are very happy to announce that we have been asked to present “the Corrigo technique” to a wider audience. And wider it is:
The participants
Joan Canela Barrull - manager of www.mèdia.cat
Steve Baxter – New Statesman www.newstatesman.com/blogs/steven-baxter & Enemies of Reason www.enemiesofreason.co.uk
Gilles Bruno– L’Observatoire des medias www.observatoiredesmedias.com
Sean Dodson – senior lecturer in journalism at Leeds Metropolitan
Ronnie Grob – contributor to www.bildblog.de
Gary Herman - NUJ New Media Industrial Council
Philip Hunt – member of the National Union of Journalists’ New Media Industrial Council, blogger at www.shoeman.eu
Tim Ireland – www.bloggerheads.com
Mike Jempson – Director, www.mediawise.org.uk; senior lecturer in journalism, UWE; lead researcher for UWE on www.mediaact.eu
Eleanor Lisney - member of the National Union of Journalists’ New Media Industrial Council
Kristine Lowe - founder of Norwegian Online News Association (NONA), blogs at http://kristinelowe.blogs.com
Will Moy – Director, www.fullfact.org
Sian Norris – http://sianandcrookedrib.blogspot.co.uk
Sylwia Presley – GlobalVoices http://globalvoicesonline.org/author/sylwia-presley
Steve Riley – www.fivechinesecrackers.com
Martin Robbins – The Guardian’s Lay Scientist www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist
Tom Schaffer - www.zurpolitik.at / call for input
Tim Tarrant – senior lecturer in Filmmaking and Creative Media at UWE Bristol
Judith Townend – journalist and researcher www.jtownend.com
Christina Zaba – journalist
The outcome
The overall aim is to eventually create an international forum / platform for and about bloggers. We will tweet from the conference and hope to count you in for some additional input. And now we have to pack our bags :)