Art Institute, April 8-9, 2008: Speakers and delegates from the Sustainable Manufacturing (GreenPower Conferences) meet in Chicago to share best practices for lowering carbon impact in manufacturing sectors.
I was really glad to get this assignment to shoot a short-film documentary from a conference that has global impact, in more ways than one. So yesterday I filmed and reported from the Loop, the grounds of The Art Institute where dozens of managing directors from global companies shared their success and strategies for reducing their carbon emissions, reducing energy usage, saving money and shaping social policy. Normally I only get hired to report from journo conventions, so this was a nice departure - to be the ONLY journalist at a gathering.
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.
Robb Montgomery works with top media houses in Europe, North America and the Middle East to develop new prototypes for news products and to design multimedia and cross platform newsrooms.
He also produces training that grows visual and digital literacy within organizations.
