Audio: It’s just like being a journalist at SXSW, minus all the Shiner Bock

LINK: blog.thephoenix.com ➚ | Posted by: Joshua Benton | March 19, 2012

Carly Carioli at The Boston Phoenix has assembled the MP3s from 15 journalism/media-related panels at this year’s just concluded SXSW. So if you didn’t want to brave the 20,000-strong crowds in Austin, you can listen in on topics ranging from the future of The New York Times to social media in sports reporting to “reported aggregation” at Mother Jones and more.

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Sophie Culpepper

The California Google deal could leave out news startups and the smallest publishers

“We don’t know whether or how this nonprofit and its fund will operate, and likely won’t for some months (nonprofit governance is many things, but fast is not one of them).”

Joshua Benton

With an expansion on the way, Ken Doctor’s Lookout thinks it has some answers to the local news crisis

After finding success — and a Pulitzer Prize — in Santa Cruz, Lookout aims to replicate its model in Oregon. “All of these playbooks are at least partially written. You sometimes hear people say, ‘Nobody’s figured it out yet.’ But this is all about execution.”

Mathias Felipe de Lima Santos

Big tech is painting itself as journalism’s savior. We should tread carefully.

“We set out to explore how big tech’s ‘philanthrocapitalism’ could be reshaping the news industry, focusing on countries in the Global South…Our findings suggest an emerging web of dependency between cash-strapped newsrooms and Silicon Valley’s deep pockets.”

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