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Göteborg: World Editors Forum

The integrated newsroom: why, how and when

Robb will be at the World editors Forum in Göteborg, Sweden, 1 - 4 June 2008 producing video documentary projects.

All Forum sessions take place at Svenska Mässan (The Göteborg Convention Centre), Mässans Gata 20, Göteborg

More information about the program.

Göteborg: World Editors Forum
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November 30 — 30, 1999

Warsaw: Press Forum

Robb will be speaking in Warsaw on April 4, 2008.

Join 200 chief executives from all Central Europe at PressForum.

More information TK as translations and programme details are made.

Warsaw: Press Forum
Warsaw, Poland
April 04 — 04, 2008

Newspapers, ‘Journalism,’ Wikipedia and Controversy, oh my.

Truth is, I don’t really have time to blog today but I am squeezing this in because there are a number of web debates now circling around my co.mments feed.

Among the topics: Citizen Journalism (or do we mean ‘Networked Journalism’ or ‘Participatory Journalism’ now?), Wikipedia’s secret mailing lists, Web stupid newspaper editors, and even more layoffs of professional journalists.

Questions from students of journalism
I am online to reply to questions posed to me from a Medill student journalist that I taught last week. Alex wants to know why Wikipedia ranks so high in search engines and why people use it even though it is prone to be easily manipulated by those who want it to serve their own interests.

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