Bloggers, EU correspondents and Online TV producers
Dumitru, 22, Moldova, journalist, blogger
In Moldova new media is not well developed. Only about 25 percent of the population have access to the Internet. Nevertheless, young people are very active and involved in creating new media.
During one year, Dumitru developed the biggest news website in Moldova www.unimedia.md. The website was the fastest to inform about student’s protests in Chisinau on 7th April 2009. During this day the site was viewed 3.000.000 times and since then it has had doubled the number of visitors.
Dumitru expected more from the conference: “More concrete things should be done here like analyzing and discussing specified problems. Interaction between experts and participants was insufficient.”
Dumitru’s dream is to run a successful media business in the future. He thinks new media will be more and more developed and its use will increase in society. On the other hand old media will survive “because people simply like to switch on the TV and watch or go to kiosk and buy a newspaper to simply read it”.
Kimberly, 26, USA, journalist, student of International Journalism in Amsterdam
“These days we are facing an explosion of citizen journalism in the USA. There is so much information accessible online that traditional press is in big trouble.” In Seattle, Kimberley’s home town, one of the cities newspapers went online only. The stuff was reduced from 170 to 12 people.
Coming from the US, Kimberly was interested in the concerns of journalism in Europe. Her dream is to be a foreign correspondent, writing to the US audience about European issues.
With new media a great change in the world of journalism will come: “in the future journalists will be expected to do more with less”. Computer skills will become very important, that is why Kimberly takes HTML classes at her University. “If in the past journalists served as gatekeepers of information in the coming days they will be more about help citizens to filter the mass of the information available.”
Monika, 24, Poland, journalist, blogger, student of International Relations in Łódź
Polish new media is developing very quickly. All major newspapers, magazines and TV stations have their website, a lot of people especially young ones are blogging and using social networking websites.
In summer 2008 Monika did an internship in Europocket TV in Valencia. In Poland she works for a local newspaper published online and in a traditional version. She never wanted to be a journalist and expects anyway to change her profession couple of times in her life. Theory of media and journalism is more interesting to her than practice.
Monika participated in this type of events before, as it’ a students’ conference; she is nicely surprised of the level of the discussion panels. She will participate in the Saturday round table.
Posted in YNEM| 09.05.09
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