ConvergeSouth wrapup

Doug Fisher attended a blogging/journalism confab in Greensboro, N.C. last weekend. His wrap-up weblog entry is entirely worth a read - Thoughts from Greensboro.

A snip:

Unless newspapers examine the limits of their industrial culture, make a determined effort to understand service instead of production, and work with their communities on multiple levels, from helping to cover the news to helping to develop the needed software, no amount of “young blood,” no matter how large the transfusion, will save them.

Lots of material that could be applicable to the college campus organization as well. Like this:

First Observation: If you listen really closely, you’ll hear a lot of that. Newspapers have a wonderful opportunity. Their communities realize the challenges they face. They want to help. But this is a limited-time offer. We’re squandering it by treating readers as some kind of product to be “captured” and even, it seems in some cases, almost as the enemy, ready to jump ship. If we can get over the psychological barriers and learn to work with our audience as partners, the possibilities are tremendous.

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