Leonard Brody’s keynote address to Connect ’09 is well worth a watch. In his talk at the even for tech start-ups and innovators, organised by the BC Innovation Council, he outlines how we are in an age where innovation, entrepreneurial and technology are creating new opportunities. There are some lessons for the media here. [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.892602&w=425&h=350&fv=] Leonard Brody at Connect ’09 – Watch more Videos at Vodpod. (Via Techvibes)

The Carnival of Journalism is back and this time, it’s serious. Well, at least is might have some practical tips for newsrooms, thanks to our host this month, Will Sullivan, who asked: What are small, incremental steps one can make to fuel change in their media organization? Change is not a word that sits well in many newsrooms, above all in newspapers. After visiting a newspaper newsroom, one of my

NewWest.net‘s founder, Jonathan Weber, makes a compelling argument about the longevity of print. At first, this seems odd, coming from one of the people behind the Rocky Mountain community news site. But like he says, revenues from print still outweigh those from online, and this is one of the reasons why NewWest.net is launching a print magazine. Yes, we can all agree that print is in a slow decline. But,

From the BBC Internet blog, which offers insights into how the corporation is changing for a digital world: 2008 will become the breakthrough year for the BBC’s interactive audience facing services. The biggest ticket item we are working on is a complete refresh of our backend infrastructure. While this is fairly boring stuff for the average consumer, without it, we cannot move things forward. It is true that the average

This video, played by Jane Stevens, multimedia instructor at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, at the Knight Digital Media Center Multimedia Workshop at UC Berkeley, sums up the need for change. In the context of journalism education, it highlights how we need to prepare students for jobs that may not yet exist. The time to do this is now. (Via The X Degree) Technorati Tags: innovation, change, journalism Site

How about this for a different approach in story-telling. Slate is running a graphic adaptation of the 9/11 report produced by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón. The graphic novel takes the 9/11 Commission Report and sets it to images. The result is striking but it does make me feel slightly uneasy. Is this an effective way of making the 9/11 report accessible to a wider audience or does is it