| January 29, 2005 | The Journalism of Online Futures |
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I am about to fly to Florida to visit my dad for a day and see his new house in North Port, and then attend this Poynter seminar on "The Future of Online Journalism" in St. Petersburg. The 40-person Poynter group is truly made up of luminaries (a.k.a. smart people) of the journalism world, who you might recognize from holding such titles as: How I got myself involved with the likes of these folks -- I'll never know! OK, OK... as much as it pains me to, sometimes I guess I actually do need to take myself seriously for a moment. I suppose I have worked on some pretty kick-ass technologically forward-thinking and creative projects over the past 9 years. One of my greatest strengths is that I never take myself too seriously, however that also seems to be one of my biggest weaknesses too. I wonder if it's always that way for everyone that their strengths are their weaknesses too. In filling out the homework assignment for the course, I just realized that it's been almost 9 years since I've been working professionally on the web and almost 10 years since I've been doing this website. The most interesting question for me to think about was #6 -- "What do you imagine you would be doing today if you hadn't gotten into online news (or if the Internet hadn’t come along)?" My response: "Magazine journalism, independent 'zine publishing, and/or pirate radio." I realized I value having a voice in independent self-published media, but realize I'll need to sell work to a major established company as well in order to make money. I guess that has always been my career philosophy. Labels: journalism, journalists, news, online posted by Jess Barron @ 10:25 AM 
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