Katrina

From Media Giraffe

MEDIA GIRAFFE PROJECT

MGP2006 CONFERENCE/UMASS AMHERST

Thursday, June 29, 2006

10:45am - 11:15pm: How Katrina changed the news ecology

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SPEAKERS: John Donley, NOLA.COM, The New Orleans Times Picayune

Cooper Munroe and Emily McKhann, owners of The Been There Clearing House.

http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Cooper_Munroe_and_Emily_McKhann

2:00 – Cooper Munroe: Somebody actually cares about me – heard that time and time again.

2:25 – Cooper Munroe: “There were prayers in the boxes and there were letters and she sat and cried all day. And said, somebody actually cares about me and I’m not forgotten. My government forgot about me and these relief agencies could care less about me but this random person through the internet found me. We just heard that time and time and time again.” Ends at 2:44.

3:48 – Emily McKhann – “Whether there’s the floods that are going on right now in Philly or in New Jersey, these networks are going to keep happening. That people expect this now – the ability to be involved in a way that is beyond just writing a check. They want to be involved, they want to feel that they can give of themselves in some way that is real.” Endsat 4:05

JOHN DONLEY:

9:00 – John Donley – On the web things like MoveOn are about empowerment on the web. This relates to Democracy, helping to make the world a better place.

13:15 – The story of professional photographers vs. bloggers on the church fire – the bloggers got the better shots.

14:30 -- Information about the cracks in the levee came from a citizen journalist.

19:00 – How the newsroom has changed

21:00 He knows the police chief reads NOLA.com.

26:30 – The number of kids without web access is very small.

28:30 – Short Messsaging Service (SMS) on cell phones.

31:15 – http://www.hurricanehousing.org -- a project of moveon.org: On October 14, more than six weeks after Hurricane Katrina hit, we are closing down HurricaneHousing.org. Thanks to the tens of thousands of generous individuals that offered housing, we helped nearly 30,000 hurricane victims start over. We have made arrangements with www.KatrinaHousing.org, a web site started by an amazing group of volunteers in Utah, to ensure that the housing needs of hurricane evacuees are still being met.

34:45 – The beauty shop????