Heute steigt im KKL Luzern das MAZ-Mediapodium:

Programm: Citizen Journalism - Können alte Medien der neuen Welt überleben?

Bill Kovach, Founding Director of the American Committee of Concerned Journalists, New York
Pete Clifton, Head of BBC News Interactive, London
Mario Sixtus, Journalist und Blogger, Düsseldorf
Peter Hartmeier, Chefredaktor Tages-Anzeiger

( siehe dazu auch: Rogers Blog, Rebell.tv )

Als "Einstimmung" auf die Veranstaltung ein Zitat aus einem Speech von Bill Kovac, Madrid 2005:

The public whose well being as citizens depends on how well we do our work are becoming disillusioned. The public--all of us--are ignorant of many things. But not stupid. They can see, sooner or later, that we failed to ask the right question at the right time; to hold a public official responsible or expose private corruption that threatened their welfare. In this new world of unlimited producers why should they stick with us? Why shouldn't they turn to a more exciting source that agrees with their prejudices even if they don't know the integrity of the work?

How do we begin the transition to the new journalism this new age requires?

Our first response should be to realize that our old notion of journalist as gatekeeper is obsolete. The Internet has torn down all the fences. A journalist standing by the gate-opening it to allow this 'fact' to pass but closing it to other information that has not been verified-looks silly because on either side of the gate the fence is down and unfiltered, indiscriminate information is flooding through.

Instead of gatekeepers, journalists now become referees. Acknowledging that our potential audience is flooded with unlimited information and no way of discerning what is of value, what is true, what is propaganda, we must construct our work to offer them the referee's advice: this information has been checked and verified; this information has been found to be untrue; this is self-interested propaganda; this is being reported but we have yet to be able to verify the information.

Quelle: A New Journalism for Democracy in a New Age - Bill Kovach, Speech given at the Escuela de Periodismo UAM/El País, Madrid, Spain, February 1, 2005