The Unsettled and Unsettling State of U.S. Media
The UP CMC Office of Research and Publication and Department of Journalism
invites you to the
CMC Research Brownbag Series
The Unsettled and Unsettling State of U.S. Media
By Prof. Noel Pangilinan Adjunct Professor, College of Mount Saint Vincent, New York
CMC Auditorium, UP College of Mass Communication
30 July 2013, 1-4:00 PM
ABSTRACT
Since the advent of the Internet, the U.S. media has been in a constant flux. At the dawning of the Internet age, many media observers are saying that the Internet will make the newspapers go the way of the Betamax or the cassette tapes.
Then everyone seemed to agree that the brick-and-mortar newspapers and media companies were able to adapt to the digital age. But more recent developments suggest that the old media is a sunset industry. Newspapers are folding up, journalists are losing their jobs, and new media companies are not earning as expected and are not hiring editors and reporters.
This short presentation attempts to cover the following issues or topics:
The state of the media in the United States The rise of the digital reporter The search for the right business models The Huffington Post model How Old Media can survive in the age of the New Media Relevance to Philippine experience
ABOUT THE LECTURER
Noel Pangilinan is a writer / editor and a professor of Philippine Studies based in New York City. He is a veteran multi-platform journalist with more than 20 years of experience in managing, editing and writing for print and online publications. He is also a staunch advocate for immigrant rights. He teaches courses on Philippine history, culture and language at the College of Mount Saint Vincent, the alma mater of the late President Corazon Aquino.
Before he left for the U.S., he was the Editor in Chief of The Freeman newspaper based in Cebu, and taught journalism courses at UP; two years at the College of Mass Communication in Diliman and eight at the UP College in Cebu.
He was the Editor in Chief of The Philippine Collegian in 1985-86, the year the Marcos dictatorship was overthrown by the EDSA Revolution.