M100 Youth Media Workshop in Potsdam (Germany)
Which role will journalists play in the future? What is necessary for the training of European journalists? These and other pressing issues were debated at the fourth M100 Youth Media Workshop in Potsdam at the end of August. Through study-visits, meetings and hands-on media creation 29 young European journalists from 19 different countries engaged in the discussion. Find their views and opinions here.
More Information: www.m100potsdam.org
The articles
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Future Force
Tuesday 26. of August 2008
“Sweet child….sweeeet chiiiild of mine….” The lyrics are racing through my head. Faster than the mirrored lifts that carry editors and journalists to their information hubs. Before coming to the M100 Youth Media Workshop the only...
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Today, tomorrow…
Wednesday 27. of August 2008
Having spent four days in Potsdam I would like to note down some thoughts about the challenges of journalism, today and tomorrow.
Let me start with a quotation from an American late-night show ‘The Colbert Report’: "The real...
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Fools Rush In
Wednesday 27. of August 2008
Usual fearless mass media ‘captains’ are presently drowning in fear as furious waving times shake their boats and technological-internet winds announce drastic changes. Print media editors and journalists try to read what the...
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Journalist teachers and amateur storytellers
Wednesday 27. of August 2008
How does the journalist of the future look like? What will be his/her strong points: analytical skills or technical know- how? What kind of journalism will be the most usual in 10 years, the so-called quality journalism or...
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Computer journalists
Wednesday 27. of August 2008
Imagine that you are in the year 2050.You want to know what is happening in the world, you need to get information about economical or medical topics. You enter a special Internet portal where you find all the information you...
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Development doesn’t mean we have to throw everything old away
Wednesday 27. of August 2008
It’s a flat thing made of paper, which you can wrap your sandwich into, you can use it in the rain as an umbrella or as a pillow when you’re sitting on a bench in the park - what is it? It’s the newspaper! Of course the mentioned...
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The newspaper is dead. Long live the picture.
Wednesday 27. of August 2008
Traditional printed newspapers are dying – it is a conclusion many experts around the world agree on. The 2nd of April 2033 is predicted to become something like September 11 for the era of Gutenberg journalism. What is more...
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Quality vs quantity: utopia and reality in Latvian journalism
Wednesday 27. of August 2008
Do more than ever before, do it faster, do it better and compress, into short journalistic material, not only the basic information, but also the context – nowadays, those are the demands of media editors for their employees....
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The right choice
Wednesday 27. of August 2008
The last three days in Berlin and Potsdam have confirmed the common thought that being a journalist in these times of “the death of newspapers” and “the death of the old way of thinking and doing journalism” has already arrived....
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