CITS Hosts Newspaper 2.0 a Workshop on the Future of the Newspaper

As part of the on-going mission to connect with the community, CITS recently co-sponsored Newspaper 2.0, a one-day workshop to explore challenges and opportunities in the new Internet-enabled newspaper marketplace. The workshop brought together local journalists, scholars and leading thinkers who share a common interest in the future of daily and weekly journals — with a particular interest in Santa Barbara as a region where new approaches to the "newspaper" might be explored. The event was hosted by Doc Searls, a CITS Research Fellow, and co-sponsored with the English Department's Transliteracies Project. The workshop featured two influential commentators and pioneers of what is being called citizen journalism — Dan Gillmor and J.D. Lasica. Dan Gillmor is a former columnist for the San Jose Mercury News and is currently working on a joint project with Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society and the University of California-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. J.D. Lasica is author of Darknet: Hollywood’s War Against the Digital Generation and cofounder and head of Ourmedia.org, a grassroots community connecting citizen media. To watch video from the Newspaper 2.0 event go to the CITS media archive.