Considered, mistakenly, as a minor branch of information, digital journalism has the opportunity to introduce itself in a two-day event organized by Dig.it Florence. On July 4th and 5th, at the Sant’Apollonia Auditorium in Florence, there will be discussions about the future of the journalistic profession as it transitions through the digital era.
It is an inevitable switch off because journalism, the “analog” kind, can no longer keep up with the times. So, there’s room for reflection, ideas, and especially the challenges of the profession.
The world of journalism has sometimes proven deaf to the rapid changes of recent years. For 14 years I have worked in digital journalism. I gained experience writing about the Internet for print magazines, but since 1998 I have also founded an online media company (FullPress Agency).
Since then, I have followed the evolution of journalism by managing three online publications and writing daily on the web, which, especially in recent years, has changed a lot. Yet even today it is still difficult to have the relevant authorities understand the importance of considering digital journalism as a new way of delivering information.
Today, real-time information is indispensable. The speed of the news (sometimes even of hoaxes), however, sets several limits. Source verification, for example, seems to have disappeared from the list of duties of information professionals. And yet, the steps are always the same. Faster, more in line with the times, but still essential.
Web 2.0, a term coined to indicate the second generation of the Internet by Tim O’Reilly of the publishing house of the same name, and Dale Dougherty , has been observed for several years. Some swear we are already well into the third, if not fourth, generation of the Internet. Unfortunately, there are still those who have not understood how the Internet has changed the world, including the world of information. And if the world has changed, if journalism has changed, if the readership now includes many digital natives, then the players—which in this world are called journalists—must also renew themselves. There is a need for more dialogue, for networking, for sharing experiences.
Behind Web 2.0, however, lurk the pitfalls of digital journalism, which sometimes features copy-and-paste professionals or those who write for free in exchange for visibility. In short, there is much to discuss and, above all, strategies to develop together that will help digital journalism emerge—for today’s information cannot do without being modern, effective, truthful, and far-reaching.
PROGRAM Wednesday, July 4th 9:30–9:45 AM: Event presentation: Paolo Ciampi, Pino Rea, Marco Renzi, Vittorio Pasteris.
9:45–11:30 AM: General introduction: New skills, citizenship, ownership, responsibility
11:30 AM–1:30 PM: Open journalism and participation: the new frontiers of digital journalism in the Italian context
1:30 PM: Buffet
Room 1
2:30–4:30 PM: Best practices and tools for achieving effective and meaningful engagement of a newspaper’s reference communities.
4:30–6:30 PM: The representation of individual and collective identities through search engines. The problem of permanence and the right to be forgotten
Room 2
2:30–3:30 PM: Food and wine: how has sector-specific information changed with the advent of the Internet?
3:30–5:30 PM: Opendata/Datajournalism.For an Italian Freedom Of Information Act
5:30pm–6:30pm:Sports journalismruns faster online
Thursday, July 5
9:30am-11:30am: General introduction:Resources, work, rights.
11:30am–1:30pm: Incubating digital journalism: funding, whether public or private, for online information
1:30pm: Buffet
Room 1
2:30pm-4:30pm: The digital workforce and their movements: mere background noise or a lifeline for journalism?
4:30pm–6:30pm:The numbers wizard the state of digital publishing by the numbers and economics
Room 2
2:30pm-4:30pm: The gold rush of native digital newspapers. 2Public funding, venture capital, crowdfunding, the friends’ piggy bank: how to fund third-millennium journalism
4:30pm–5:30pm:Journalism under pressure
5:30pm–6:30pm: The journalist and their digital identity
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