Media watchers /'POLIS'

[outsider]

This may be of interest; Charlie is speaking at 'Cafe Diplo' on Monday 19th May, details on 'Calendar'.
But on the general level, it looks like it could be an opportunity to get some coverage on 9/11.

'Super Media: Saving Journalism So It Can Save The World with Charlie Beckett The world needs a 'good' news media to explain theconflicts, threats and opportunities that globalisation offers. And yet quality journalism and international coverage is under threat from new media and commercial pressures. Charlie Beckett spent 20 years working around the world for news organisations such as the BBC andChannel 4 News before founding the LSE's mediathink-tank POLIS, of which he is now a Director, in 2006. In his new book, he argues that Networked Journalism, combining 'professional' journalism with public participation (blogging, wikis, crowd-sourcing,user generated content and the rest), can sustain the media business and offer huge social benefits. Is this another Internet fantasy, or the gateway to a new form of politics?'

http://www.charliebeckett.org/?page_id=2

(I originally put this up as being on Monday 12th, but I slipped up; it's Monday 19th.)