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Internet Week Panel Recap and Video: The Future of Media
Yesterday I attended a panel discussion on the "Future of Media." As a side note, it would be nice to stop using the word "future" as rarely do these panels ever actually discuss the future. This event was the same, it focused on today. Another note, several people made comments that apparently there are no women in the future of media as the panel was made up of all men. I’ve embedded the video below from GroundReport. The discussion around today’s media was relatively good.
Here are the panelists:
- Patrick Phillips, Moderator, I Want Media
- Michael Wolff, Vanity Fair media columnist
- Erick Schonfeld, TechCrunch co-editor
- Kenneth Li, Reuters global media correspondent
- David Carr, New York Times media columnist
- Johnnie L. Roberts, Newsweek senior writer covering media
- Keith J. Kelly, New York Post media reporter
Opening the conversation, the panelists seemed to agree that music is the most hurt industry by online and that print was second. Michael believes that print will be gone within five years. Michael also goes off About.com as the source of traffic for the NY Times (which owns About).
Most of the conversation took place as a battle between Michael and David. Patrick did a poor job in giving equal time to all of the panelists. Not all people will want to talk over other panelists and the moderator’s job is making sure each panelist gets a chance to speak.
Johnnie suggested that Newsweek wants to tap into the blogger audience and that bloggers want to tap into the Newsweek audience. I can only tell you that bloggers already have the Newsweek audience.
Erick explained that while he loves the NY Times, the actual paper rarely gets to a story first, he normally reads it online first somewhere. He suggested that the NY Times strength is in their editorial. He also said that media is about a two-way conversation. Thanks to Erick for the CN shoutout as well!
If you are interested in four guys talking about how print is using online today, watch the video below. If you are looking for where media will be in five or ten years, don’t click play.
Although this particular panel was made up of all men, at the event that kicked off Internet Week the panel was comprised of all women. The event was titled “Shifting the Paradigm: Young Women with Cool Jobs Making a Difference in Digital Media and Beyond.” There are indeed women involved in the future of media.
There are also several articles documenting how young women (teens) are much more involved in social networking and any opportunity they can get to “customize” on the Web. I think that this generation of women will be more interested in technology and media as they come to college-age than women have been in the past. And they are the “future.”