National Press Club Talk on 'The Case for Open Journalism Now'

Last week my discussion paper: "The Case for Open Journalism Now: A new framework for informing communities," was published online by the Annenberg Innovation Lab. The paper and website result from my work this past semester as Executive in Residence at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism.

Here's my speech presenting this paper, given on Monday, Dec. 12, as part of a panel at the National Press Club titled "Opening Up Journalism: A Culture Change." The event was hosted by USC Annenberg and moderated by its Director of Journalism and Professor Geneva Overholser. Nikki B. Usher, assistant professor or journalism at George Washington University and recent Annenberg, Ph.d., presented her findings on the growing influence of open-source software thinking in newsrooms...