I welcome you all up to the met any time. In the mood for culture and art, please do,. Let me tell you about our session. We wanted to keep this as useful as and that has to do with the timing because it is so early. It is also a chance for us to take stock of where we are and where we are going. Theres so much of buzz and hype about social, and this is a good moment to kind of think through what makes sense for each of us to do in our work, to get some ideas. I hope you will leave with lots of ideas about the social and mobile world after we are done this morning, but the entire session today has so many different opportunities for you to learn about this changing media landscape. I should say that i still subscribe to two daily print newspapers. Any twopaper households . Thats great. What is happening in my mind is that we have to think about ways in which we can continue to support the kind of great journalism so many of us in the room have been doing for so many years, but make it
Within 24 hours it was the first website where we invited people to tweet out nominations. I nominate and our site with full that in, and 24 hours after launching it became [indiscernible] on twitter. We have a moment where people are going to want to come to this thing, so we dropped everything and organized the first ceremony in months. It was at that ceremony we saw before twitter was all that big, it was on a huge growth spurt, but a fraction of the size it is today. We saw journalists were on social media before anybody else. At the knight foundation, we made an amateur mistake and ran out of booze in the press room and learned that journalists early on like to drink and they like to tweet. We could not do anything about the first issue. About the second issue, the tweeting addiction, we developed the first site to let you see all the journalists in social media on one place. We started with 150 journalists in 2009, and there is a funny thing where i talk to journalists back then,
It took one school year for six high school students with special needs to transform their lives. One, they learned work skills, of course, school year, plus a 30 minute graduation ceremony.