July Newsletter

Well that was a heck of a month!We hosted, with your invaluable support, the Future of News and Civic Media conference along with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. And just in time for this here newsletter, videos from the conference's extraordinary plenaries are now available:

• The announcement of the 2009 News Challenge winners
• "News, Nerds and Nabes: How Will Future Americans Learn About the Local?" with Alberto Ibarguen, Eric Klinenberg, and Henry Jenkins
• "Flesh and Bits: Information, Representation, Action" with Chris Csikszentmihályi, Ben Fry, Matt Carroll, and Martin Wattenberg
• And a brilliant on-the-spot event: a $5,000 contest to see who could pitch the best brand-new collaborative civic media project. Definitely be sure to check out the pitches and the winners.

Thanks to everyone who made the conference such a great success.

Staff changes

It's a bummer to make it official, but we lose Henry Jenkins as one of our Principle Investigators, as Henry and his lovely wife Cynthia head west for their new life and work at the University of Southern California. We wish them the best of luck--and better than the best of luck to their moving company, which has to move Henry's ... let's see ... carry the 7 ... eleventy tons of books.

Henry, everyone wishes you all the success you have coming to you over the horizon.

Happy July to all, and to those in the know, happy Canada Day!