Session Gatekeepers No More? The Grassroots Challenges the Journalist Priesthood Dan Gillmor, Center for Citizen Media Jeff Jarvis, Advance.net Jay Rosen, NYU Date: Monday, February 09 Time: 1:30pm - 2:15pm Location: California Ballroom C TrackBack Professional journalists have been the chief gatekeepers of news about political campaigns and governmental operations. That's changing, fast, as the Internet and other technical tools open up a variety of avenues for other participants in the information process. Campaign blogs are only one such avenue. MoveOn.org's invitation to the public to come up with anti-Bush advertisements showed the way toward a democratization of opinion-making. The Dean campaign invited bloggers -- even those who don't support Dean -- to join an uber-blog about Iowa's caucuses, and created an RSS feed to make it easier to track the flood of data. This session explores technology's impact on the media's role in the political process.

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