Multimedia Journalist Farai Chideya spoke at Yale as a guest of the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism on Monday, February 1.
Chideya’s talk, “Be the Media You Want to See: How Social Media and Citizen Journalism Are Changing the World,” was free and open to the public. I live a blessed life of the mind and work with clients in transforming the mystery of their social capital into negotiable instruments of exchange. The new media landscape provides multidimensional pathways . I partner with them in creating the nexus between my client's goals and passions and the waiting to be nurtured customers, audience and fellow mission visionaries. Ms. Chideya's remarks targeted and illustrated the lattice interactive network that is continually evolving, even at exponential acceleration. Her address of course focused on media, but today media is the landscape, it is the backdrop and forefront. It is similar to the discovery of oxygen.It envelops all of us and is the transmitter. We are all floating ,swimming and being driven by this tidal wave of energy .The challenge regardless of your purpose, passion or product is to avoid electrocution.We must avoid being burned by the hot steam. We must avoid being scalded by the hot coals. Where there is heat there is fire, but the fossil fuel days of internal combustion have reached an end. This " new age" this "digital age" this age of light is transporting us all. The challenge is to be a sailor and not just part of the dead weight cargo.
Ms. Chideya's remarks although media history focused were cogent and thought provoking undergirding this new reality and new day that is dawning.
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During her 20-year career as an award-winning journalist and author, Chideya has combined media, technology, and social justice. From 2006 to 2009, she hosted NPR’s “News and Notes,” a daily national program about African-American and African Diaspora issues. “News and Notes” took its mandate of illuminating the diversity of the African-American experience to a new level, tackling topics that included politics, visual art, hip hop and social justice.
In 1995, Chideya founded PopandPolitics.com, one of the longest continuously operating blogs in the world.
Her recent work includes political commentary for networks and shows, including CNN, MSNBC, BET and HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher.” She has also written for such magazines as Time, O and Glamour. Her stated goal is to tell the stories of how national politics affect real people, and she’s known for bringing a bit of pop culture into the world of politics.
http://www.faraichideya.com/
http://opa.yale.edu/poynter.aspx
part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DPCehHRL-s
http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2010/02/02/journalism-moves-online/
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