AAJA Convention 2009

I attended AAJA 2009 Convention in Boston. This was my first time at the Asian American Journalism Convention.





I recruited, held a workshop on how to build a website using online tools, and sang and danced!
The economy may be bleak but it didn't stop convention-goers from partying it up!

Good times!

It's Already Here

Everyone talks about the future of broadcast news, but I think I've seen it already. It's niche-oriented, it's digital, it's funded by an organization that cares about the niche topic--- Clean Energy.

But is it independent? I have no idea.

But I met the producer of this online TV network. Executive Producer Anna Davalos says she produces daily newscasts with her staff in an office in downtown DC. Davalos has a wealth of broadcast news producing background. Now's she's moved onto this online broadcast network.

The news anchors are all experienced TV news folk. That 's a good thing. They have the look of TV news. But as for news substance, I hope it is as independent from the CleanSkies Foundation as Davalos claims.

Watch and you decide.

Here is the foundation. I tried to find out what they were about but it only gives a list of people and their titles.

But this website adds more muscle to the claim that the movement of online-video has reached a tipping point, according to Paul Sagan, the CEO of Akamai, the online video streaming company.