Jay Rosen teaches journalism at New York University, where he has been on the faculty since 1986. From 1999 to 2004 he was chair of the department. He is the author of PressThink, a blog about journalism's ordeals in the age of the Web, which he launched in 2003. In 1999, Yale University Press published his book, What Are Journalists For, which was about the rise of the civic journalism movement. In July 2006 he announced the debut NewAssignment.Net, his experimental site for pro-am, open source reporting projects. The first one was called Assignment Zero, a collaboration with Wired.com. A second project was OfftheBus.Net with the Huffington Post, for which he served as co-publisher with Arianna Huffington. Rosen has a Ph.D in media studies from NYU. He writes and speaks frequently about new media and the predicament of the press in a time of rapid transformation. On Twitter he is @jayrosen_nyu.
Jay Rosen over persinnovatie
"My readers know more than I do."
De Amerikaanse mediaprofessor Jay Rosen (faculteit journalistiek van de New York University) kwam op 20 juni naar Amsterdam voor een speciale bijeenkomst van het Stimuleringsfonds. Rosen sprak over "the kind of innovation in journalism that follows from the discovery, as the American journalist Dan Gillmor put it, that "my readers know more than I do" and from the "mutualization of journalism" that Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, has committed his company to. Not all, but part of the future of journalism will be pro-am: professionals and amateurs working together. Parts of the business, especially distribution, already are pro-am. "
Het verslag van de bijeenkomst is hier te vinden.