Carleton Student Demo: Sandstrom- Kesterton live blog

Sandstrom- Kesterton live blog

Coverage of the 17th Annual Kesterton Lecture: Martin Baron of the Washington Post in conversation with the CBC's Robyn Bresnahan

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50 minutes to start and the room is already starting to fill up

by alison.sandstrom 2/3/2016 11:12:42 PM
Check out the event description here.

by alison.sandstrom 2/3/2016 11:15:07 PM
Great meeting @washingtonpost editor Marty Baron. We're talking Spotlight + future of journalism tonight @Carleton_U http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CaUOiOBWAAIoxLl.jpg

by Robyn Bresnahan via twitter 2/3/2016 11:25:18 PM
Marty Baron is perhaps best know as having been the editor of the Boston Globe when it broke the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal. The story behind the investigation was turned into a 2015 blockbuster and is nominated for six Academy Awards. Liev Shreiber plays Baron in the film.
Spotlight - Official Movie Trailer (2015) | Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton
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by alison.sandstrom 2/3/2016 11:51:36 PM
CBC is live streaming the lecture here.

by alison.sandstrom 2/4/2016 12:05:57 AM
Susan Harada, head of the Carleton Journalism Program says Spotlight highlights
Why journalism should matter to you

by alison.sandstrom 2/4/2016 12:09:25 AM
Journalism professor Allan Thompson, introduces Marty Baron and shares his impression of Spotlight:
I found it incredibly uplifting and affirming, it made me proud of being a reporter. It made me a little bit sad too. I think I was shedding a tear in a sense of nostalgia, wondering 'am I watching something that is really about another era [of journalism]?'"

by alison.sandstrom 2/4/2016 12:14:06 AM
Martin Baron says he arrived at the Boston Globe from the Miami Herald in 2001 as an "outsider", not a "new-comer". He says that label mattered.

by alison.sandstrom 2/4/2016 12:19:00 AM
I didn't decide to go after the Catholic Church. I decided to pursue a story that was right in front of us. It was just a journalistic impulse. - Marty Baron

by alison.sandstrom 2/4/2016 12:20:27 AM
The catechism the cardinal gave Baron at their first meeting is the physical catechism used in the same scene in the movie

by alison.sandstrom 2/4/2016 12:31:23 AM
Marty Baron speaks to a full house in the Carleton University River Building

by alison.sandstrom 2/4/2016 12:33:21 AM
Baron says the cast of Spotlight received the warmest reception by the press in Rome. He speculates that is due to the Italian press' relationship to the Vatican
I think they know a lot about what happens in the Vatican and they can't report it.

by alison.sandstrom 2/4/2016 12:35:54 AM
The disenchantment with the media is partly because the media has abandoned it's core mission. Ultimately people want us to tell the truth, forthrightly and unflinchingly. I think they recognize if we don't do that, no one will. - Marty Baron

by alison.sandstrom 2/4/2016 12:39:38 AM
Baron says the value of investigative reporting is not in an immediate monetary return, it is in cementing a paper's bond with its readers

by alison.sandstrom 2/4/2016 12:40:58 AM
Marty Baron on moving from digital to print:
We have to look forward, and we can't look with nostalgia at the past.

by alison.sandstrom 2/4/2016 12:47:00 AM
When asked how he convinced the old guard at the Washington Post how to embrace new media Barons says,
Honest talk. You have to tell people where we are. I'm not interested in dying gracefully, I'm interested in succeeding. We have the best reporters, we have the best editors, why should we fail? It doesn't mean we have to give up our principles, it doesn't mean we have to give up investigative reporting.

by alison.sandstrom 2/4/2016 12:52:43 AM
Baron describes newspapers' "frenemy" relationship with their partners and biggest competition, Google and Facebook.
With their targeted adds, they've been a giant vacuum-cleaners sucking up adds, they've also been a giant-vacuum cleaners sucking up readers.

by alison.sandstrom 2/4/2016 12:56:02 AM
Baron says there is no one thing that will save newspapers and that looking for "the moonshot" is useless because there is none. Papers are going to have to try a lot of different things.

by alison.sandstrom 2/4/2016 12:59:02 AM
Baron points out that when radio was first invented, announcers initially tried reading newspapers on air but it didn't work. Similarly, simply putting newspaper stories on the web won't work either.

by alison.sandstrom 2/4/2016 1:02:55 AM
Marty Baron of Spotlight fame says that investigative journalism is the essence, the soul of what we do or should do as journalists.#3235D

by Kanina Holmes via twitter 2/4/2016 1:05:56 AM
I don't think Spotlight romanticizes investigative reporting, it shows that it's really hard work. I do hope that it causes owners, publishers and editors to rededicate themselves to investigative reporting.
- Martin Baron

by alison.sandstrom 2/4/2016 1:10:36 AM
We had a business model that was cutting down trees and throwing them at people's doors - Marty Baron

by alison.sandstrom 2/4/2016 1:25:36 AM
Hopeful advice for aspiring journalists from Marty Baron:
I think there are an incredible amount of opportunities for new journalists. Learn all the new tools, because we're going to use them.

by alison.sandstrom 2/4/2016 1:32:43 AM
"You're an inspiration and you're funny," Susan Harada thanks Marty Baron

by alison.sandstrom 2/4/2016 1:37:33 AM
Read a write-though of the Marty Baron Kesterton Lecture here.

by alison.sandstrom 2/10/2016 5:49:34 AM