Barry Saunders » mediainthepub http://barrysaunders.com journalism // research // politics Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:27:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Media in the Pub – the business models that will support journalism http://barrysaunders.com/2009/11/media-in-the-pub-the-business-models-that-will-support-journalism/ http://barrysaunders.com/2009/11/media-in-the-pub-the-business-models-that-will-support-journalism/#comments Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:52:10 +0000 Barry http://barrysaunders.com/?p=287

Media in the Pub has come around again. This time, we’ve asked four of the brightest thinkers to take a (hypothetical) ailing media company and lay out a vision for its future.

Our speakers are:
Tim Burrowes, Founding Editor of Mumbrella
David McGrath, GM – News & Sport at Telstra BigPond
Bronwen Clune, Founder and CEO of Norg Media
James Tuckerman, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Anthill

The brief we’ve given them was this:

You’re newly in control of The Australian National And Local Output Group (A.N.A.L.O.G). What would you do to save it? Extreme solution: sell it and start something else radically different. Minimal solution: do what you’ve always done best, but having to continually cut costs? What would you do – justify it with numbers, discuss changes to distribution, content mix or market or other options.

We’ve given all our panellists the current vital statistics of ANALOG; its people, its audiences, its platforms, its costs, its culture and how the money is trending. It’s the discussion we’ve all had -normally over red wine- “you know what I’d do if I was king for a day…” so get ready to compare your vision of the future with theirs.

Find out more details or RSVP here.

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Media in the pub from Media Alliance on Vimeo.

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I’ve been working with Fergus Pitt to get Media In The Pub up and running again. I was keen to see a regular space for media people to talk about industry issues and debates, and after meeting Fergus at a Progressive Lunch I got excited about the direction he wanted to take it.

I’m hoping we can run it bi-monthly, and we have some interesting stuff planned. First presentation of the resurrected Media in the Pub is next Tuesday:

The eminent photojournalist, Walkley judge and photo editor Wen Huang is in town next Tuesday, hosted by Walkley Foundation/Media Alliance. So we decided to borrow a glimmer of Wen’s limelight to announce the re-entry of Media In The Pub in Sydney’s media conversation.

Wen Huang will be in conversation with Walkey winner David Dare Parker, one of the original co-founders of Reportage, a Director of FotoFreo Photographic Festival and Walkley Advisory Board Member.

You can RSVP for this talk at facebook or send Fergus an email. fergus [at] fergle [dot] com

Would love to see you all there.

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