SV Evening: How Tech & Broadband Are Changing the Face of Journalism, Readership, and the Economics

Please join us at the Stanford Faculty Club, on September 30, 2008, 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., for a program organized by Silicon Vikings, in conjunction with the Schibsted Group, the Nordic region’s largest media group, entitled “How Technology and Ubiquitous Broadband Are Changing the Face of Journalism, Readership, and the Economics of News Gathering and the Distribution of Information”.

The August 20, 2006 edition of the Economist headlined “Who Killed the Newspaper?” The usual answer is the Internet killed the newspaper business, and the media companies which own the newspapers are usually accused of being either blind, blind sided or too stuck in the last “Pulitzer” to change. But are newspapers a relic of the past? Is the morning newspaper delivered to your door going to die out? Will we reading our news on a Kindle or equal? What will replace the revenue vaporized by Craig’s List and eBay? Will our news come from independent citizen journalists and free lancers blogging on current events, trends and opinions, sometimes organized into a “new news paper”? Has “news” as we know it ceased to be of interest to Generation Y? These are among the many questions which will be debated by a very distinguished panel.

This special program will feature a buffet dinner and a panel discussion. The program will be moderated by Richard Allan Horning, Principal, Fish & Richardson P.C. (Silicon Valley). The Panelists include:

• Gunnar Strömblad, Executive Vice President, Schibsted Group (Stockholm)
• Dean Takahashi, formerly Tech Talk Columnist, San Jose Mercury News, now Lead Writer, Digital Media, VentureBeat (Silicon Valley)
• Eric Eldon, Editor, Digital Media, VentureBeat and Founder, Writewith (Silicon Valley)
• Bo Hedin, Leading the Project SvD 3.0, Previous CEO/Editor in Chief, Svenska Dagbladet Digital Media (Stockholm)
• Shel Israel, Founder, Global Neighbourhoods (Silicon Valley)
• Jan Helin, Editor in Chief, Aftonbladet Newspaper (Stockholm)
• Dr. Vilma Luoma-aho, Visiting Scholar, Stanford University Innovation Journalism Program (Silicon Valley)
• Kalle Jungkvist, Editor in Chief, Aftonbladet New Media (Stockholm)
• David Cohn, Founder, Spot Us, a project of the Center for Media Change (San Francisco)

This program is a fund raiser for the benefit of Silicon Vikings. Silicon Vikings is a collaborative business networking organization for the technology sector. Silicon Vikings operates in the intersecting worlds of Silicon Valley and the Nordic region to help members succeed in their professional and personal endeavors. Silicon Vikings accomplishes this by providing networking events, and by effectively communicating valuable information of interest to its members.

Recommended contribution: $20

This special program is co-sponsored by the International Institute of Innovation Journalism at Stanford and Fish & Richardson P.C.

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