I’ve just arrived home from the second Future of News meetup organised by epic visionary, Adam Westbrook. When Adam first announced the meetup I thought one for the West Midlands would be good but didn’t take the thought further till I met Adam at last week’s news:rewired conference.
You may be thinking, “oh great, another meetup/conference echo chamber for journalists” but it’s not. Adam has a great ethos for the meets – he says it aims “to do more than just commentate on the decline of journalism” and should be cynicism-free. Questions and phrases like ‘is journalism dead?’ and ‘are citizen journalist really journalists?’ are banned. It’s about getting stuff done, figuring out ways to move forward, not debate definitions and moan about what’s wrong with the news industry. Oh if you want an idea of what happened, check out the Tweetdoc.
Then, without much effort on my part it was quickly apparent that a Future of News meetup for the Midlands/North would be very welcome. Tonight has already sparked a Brighton meetup, led by Judith Townend so here’s the start of the third!
Here, take a quick poll for me so I can see how much actual interest there is:
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Okay, good. I was thinking we could move it around. Perhaps BCU would host it one time? Then Staffs Uni? How about Urban Coffee Co as Andrew suggested? Sarah suggested Leeds? I might even get everyone over to Lichfield! Another poll I here you ask? Oh go on then…
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Comments very, very welcome.
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Good call, Philip.