[ecrea] Call for Papers -- Paying for Journalism

> School of Journalism and Mass Communication University of Westminster
>
> Call for Papers
> Journalism's Next Top Model: Meeting the Cost of Journalism Tomorrow
>
> 8th and 9th June 309 Regent Street London W1
>
> News media all over the world are failing as the traditional revenue 
> from advertising bleeds to the web. Free news websites are 
> discouraging the young from buying newspapers. So who will pay for 
> what sort of journalism in the future?
>
> Following last year's hugely successful "Journalism in Crisis" the 
> University of Westminster is organising a conference on the future 
> funding of the news industry.
>
> Local papers in Britain are closing as display advertising follows 
> the classifieds into cyberspace, yet some US regional papers are 
> funded by subscribers for their websites; will readers accept pay 
> walls round the tabloids? ITV regional news is in meltdown and will 
> the licence fee be around to pay for BBC coverage?
>
> This conference will examine the different experiments in sustaining 
> serious journalism in the new environment, both commercial and not 
> for profit:
>
>    * the conditions for charging for content;
>    * leveraging content and customer data to advertisers and marketers;
>    * local authority funded media;
>    * direct support for non-profit news operation from subscribers 
> and charities;
>    * the viability of Independently Funded News Consortia (IFNCs) 
> and those without public subsidy;
>    * can investigative journalism continue to exist and who will 
> pay for long form journalism?
>    * how will legal rights be protected without the financial 
> support of a well funded fourth estate?
>    * what will happen to the BBC News output?
>    * and does the French subsidy model have wider applications?
>
> We invite papers from academics in media, as well as business and 
> others addressing the theoretical issues involved in the study of 
> journalism. We are also keen to hear about practical experiments 
> today, and possible developments tomorrow.
>
> The conference will take place on June 8th and 9th 2010 at the 
> Regent Street campus of the University of Westminster. As well as 
> the presentation of academic papers there will be industry panels, 
> featuring major names from press and broadcast as well as regulators.
>
> Please send abstracts of not more than 250 words to Helen Cohen 
> (<mailto:(journalism /at/ wmin.ac.uk)>(journalism /at/ wmin.ac.uk)) by 1st March 2009.

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