PICNIC - Future of Journalism One-Day Programme

 On 23 September, world class media thinkers including Jeff Jarvis, Rafat Ali, Mark Glaser and Paul Bradshaw, will join the European Journalism Centre (EJC) for a day of debates on the future of journalism at PICNIC 2010.

Held in Amsterdam every year, PICNIC is a renowned festival-cum-conference that blurs the lines between creativity, science, technology, business and society.

Covering the successes and failures of recent years in the media industry, as well as the growth of public engagement, EJC’s exclusive one-day PICNIC 2010 programme will focus on the real need to reconstruct journalism and its relationship with the citizen and society.

The four general concepts of the EJC session include:

• In a time of experimentation and testing, trek with us through the contemporary digital landscape in the context of journalism’s possibilities;
• Explore the dynamics of social media in a networked world, as we analyse the changing relationship between journalists and non-professional contributors to the public sphere;
• Through discussion of sustainable revenue models, join us as we look at ways to monetise (and secure) the future of news;
• Take a closer look at the relationship between privacy and democracy in light of Internet governance.