The first ONA panel on day 2 is about how to manage a newsroom in the 21st century. Despite starting at 8.30am, the session is pretty packed. This is understandable, as just about every newsroom is struggling to bridge the cultural differences between print, broadcast and online. Jim Brady from the WashingtonPost.com admitted that managing the relationship with the print side was still the biggest challenge he was dealing with.

Are cellphones the platform of the future? They are, according to Eric Schwartz of Foneshow. Talking at an ONA panel on the future of publishing, Schwartz went al evangelical about mobiles. He argues cellphones are the future because there are more cellphones than toasters on the planet – 2.7bn mobiles worldwide. Cellphones outsold iPods 20 to 1 in the US, says Schwartz. To do news, you have to be a

At a session of video games at the ONA 2007 conference, Marc Prensky, made a plea to the journalists in the room to change how games are viewed. His argument is that games are a powerful learning tool and they have developed at an amazing rate -we’ve gone from Pong to Halo 3 in 35 years. As Prensky pointed out adults – parents, teachers – are ignorant and scared of

CBC held a debate on the future of the future of news, ahead of the ONA conference in Toronto. This clip from NowPublic.com’s Len Brody gives a flavour of the discussion: The sound quality could be better. It was shot on a Nokia N95 and I was a few rows back from the podium