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Media Making Change: New Media Versus Old Media

Courtesy of David Vaina

David Vaina Date: Tuesday, 8 January 2008 Time: 9:00 a.m. EST (1400 GMT) View Webchat Transcript

New technologies lead to new media platforms and styles. As new forms gain a greater audience share, the debate grows more intense about whether practitioners of the new media honor the time-honored professional standards that separate journalism from the gossip sheets. Join David Vaina for a webchat discussing these and other topics related to new media platforms and how they are shaping today's journalism.

Guest Biography: David Vaina is a research associate at the Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ), a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization devoted to evaluation and study of the performance of the news media. PEJ describes itself as nonpartisan, nonideological, and nonpolitical. The organization is affiliated with the Pew Research Center.