VIDEO: Streaming QuickTime from Lowell -- launch links

BOSTON MAY 17 EVENT VIDEO:  (STORY)

VIDEO of  the innaugural "Civic News Library Listening Series" event of the New England News Forum at the Boston Public Library on Thurs., May 17. Nearly 40 people attended. LAUNCH FLASH VIDEO / LAUNCH QUICKTIME STREAMING VIDEO (1 hour, 31 minutes); Also learn about Jim Caralis' OpenMass project and Pete Stidman's Alliance for Community Media. 

 SPRINGFIELD MAY 24  EVENT VIDEO:   (STORY)

VIDEO of the Springfield City Library listening-series event on Thurs., May 24. (1 hour, 48 minutes) / LAUNCH FLASH VIDEO / LAUNCH QUICKTIME STREAMING VIDEO.

 A NOTE ABOUT NENF STREAMING VIDEO:

Our streams are encoded in the MPEG-4 format as QuickTime video and are launched using the "rtsp:" protocol. This means your browser may spawn a RealPlayer or a QuickTime player. Either should work. If the video does not start playing within 30 seconds or so, please report the problem to mail@newenglandnews.org.  We also offer a lower-resolution version of some video which will play using browser-plug in "Flash" technology. Try that option, when shown, if the QuickTime doesn't work.

 QuickTime video of eight sessions at "The New(s) England Revolution can be launched from this page. You will need either free-version Apple QuickTime or RealNetwork's free-version RealPlayer installed on your computer.  Click on the LAUNCH VIDEO link after each description, and a window should open on your computer to display the video. (Thanks to Lowell Telecommunications Corp. volunteers for hours of camera and editing work which made these videos possible: Nick Brecken, Charlotte Crockford, Tabitha Karanja, Tommy Konieczny, Keith Mulligan, Lydia Mulligan, Marybeth Norton and Eric Sack.

ALSO SEE: BLOG ACCOUNTS OF SESSIONS or EVENT PHOTOS and LINKS TO SESSION WRITEUPS

Does journalism, or blogging, need a "shield"? Dissecting a critical issue for journalism, a panel overviews the proposed Massachusetts journalism shield law from the point of view of traditional print, television and new-media practitioners. With Jeff Newman, attorney (moderator); Charlie Kravitz, New England Cable News, Jim Taricani, WJAR-TV, Providence, R.I.; Sarah Olson, independent journalist, San Francisco, Calif.; and Bill Ketter, editor, the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune. LAUNCH VIDEO.  . . . (MORE ON SESSION)
 
• A rising voice: Blogs as news in communities and politics, and how should traditional media be involved? Howard Owens of Gatehouse Media and Steve Garfield of Rocketboom.com discuss how traditiona media is integrating bloggers into their day-to-day coverage -- and with what tools. This video was shot by Steve Garfield on a camera phone.  LAUNCH VIDEO from Garfield's jump page --  http://tinyurl.com/2arne8   (MORE ON SESSION)
  

• Has blogging gone mainstream media? -- With bloggers at the Libby trial and a talk-radio host pasting together a citizen-video network in New Hampshire, is it time to embrace blogging and citizen journalism as every bit as mainstream as legacy media? Aldon Hynes leads a discussion with Robert Cox, Tish Grier and Arnie Arnesen. (LAUNCH VIDEO.

• The blogger as journalist: Making new law and definitions -- Dan Kennedy (MediaNation, and Northeastern University), Christine Stuart (CTNewsJunkie.com) and Robert Cox of the MediaBloggers Association, lead a discussion of how bloggers are re-defining the practice and law of journalism. LAUNCH VIDEO.  (audio is soft for first 3-1/2 minutes, then fine)  (MORE ON SESSION)

• Letting the public into the newsroom: Joining, shaping conversation -- Introduction by Patrick Marx. Panelists Steve Fox, NewAssignment.net and UMass-Amherst, formerly of WashingtonPost.com; Rory O'Connor of Newstrust; Mike LaBonte , Lowell-area blogger; and Jon Greenberg, New Hampshire Public Radio.  LAUNCH VIDEO.  (MORE ON SESSION)
• Journalism that matters: Lessons from the front. Eesha Williams, author of the how-to guide, "Grassroots Journalism," leads a discussion of cases where journalists and citizens have worked together to produce news, information and insight that moves a community.  The audio is noisy, but understandable.  LAUNCH VIDEO . . . (MORE ON SESSION)
• Teaching that Matters: Putting Civic education back in the classroom. Warren Watson  of Ball State University describes the latest research funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation about high-school -- and principal -- attitudes toward the First Amendment. Also, Rob Williams of the Action Coalition for Media Education/Champlain College, Julie Dobrow of Tufts University and Steven Wilmart of the Center for 21st Century Skills, Litchfield, Conn. LAUNCH VIDEO . . . . (MORE ON SESSION)

• The New England Common: Regional issues resource?  What would a regional website covering public-policy issues vital to New England look like?  An update on the New England Futures project with David Soule, UMass-Lowell and Northeastern University; William Mass, Center for Industrial Competitiveness at UMass-Lowell; George Hamilton, Institute for Sustainable Communities, Montpelier, Vt.; Neal Peirce, of CitiStates Group and the New England Futures project; and Jonathan Weber, founder, NewWest.Net, Missoula, Mont. LAUNCH VIDEO. . . .  (MORE ON SESSION)

• Grassroots radio, the N.E. News Forum and Vt. Gov. Jim Douglas. Watch a three-camera shoot by Lowell Telecommunications Corp. volunteers of the keynote luncheon presentation by Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas on the need for last-mile broadband internet in his state (and the region). His 25-minute talk is preceded by a pitch for the Grassroots Radio Conference by Charlotte Crockford and a brief description of the New England News Forum by Bill Densmore. LAUNCH VIDEO . . . (MORE ON SESSION)

  OUTSIDE SESSION EXTRAS:
  

• Howard Owens, the top web executive for Gatehouse Media (which now owns most of the weeklies around Boston, plus the Quincy and Brockton dailies) talks at NENF-Lowell about how vision for putting video in the hands of reporters -- and citizens. (3 min/42 sec) LAUNCH VIDEO.

• Brett Rhyne, journalism professor at Salem State College and N.E. Society of Newspaper Editors board member, talks about the (http://www.logvlog.net ) experimental newspaper vlog he's spearheading.  LAUNCH VIDEO (44 seconds).

•  Christine Yeres and her daughter, Sophie, discuss their plans for the Newcastle News Forum, a citizen-journalism website to launch in the fall in Chappaqua, N.Y., with a seed grant from the Knight Foundation.  LAUNCH VIDEO (6 min, 50 secs)

• CLIPS: Interviews with participants in NENF-Lowell, who explain why they came on April 7 and what they hoped to learn. Includes Arnie Arnesen (www.PoliticalChowder.com ); Maureen Mann (www.ForumHome.org);  Jon Greenberg (N.H. Public Radio);  Dan Toomey, GrassRoots Radio Conference/WUML; Tim Nulty, Burlington Telecom; Bob Paquette, WFCR; Kristen Nevious (Franklin Pierce College); Sarah Olson (San Francisco free-lancer);  Dianne Chubb (Area News Group); David Eisenthal (www.EisenthalReport.com ). LAUNCH VIDEO.