If it’s Tuesday, we must be in Toronto. After a great Third Tuesday Ottawa on Monday night, Mathew Ingram flew to Toronto to speak to the Third Tuesday Toronto community.
Yesterday, I captured the highlights of the Twitter steam about Mathew’s Ottawa presentation. Today, I’ve captured a selection of Tweets from the #3TYYZ twitter stream to provide an overview of Mathew’s subject matter and people’s take on it.
Think I picked a good #3TYYZ for my first. @mathewi on deck to talk journalism and stuff.
— Nicholas Ward (@nicvatar) October 22, 2013
#3TYYZ @mathewi opens up his presentation with “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” very true in our media world today.
— Sarah Foster (@sarah_millar) October 22, 2013
#3tyyz @mathewi starts with the bad for journalism – massive layoffs, media in chaos, ad revenues declining
— Jennifer Wilson (@jenwilsonTO) October 22, 2013
#3tyyz @mathewi some publications have gone bankrupt, others sold and yet others have embraced the pay wall – but these may stunt growth
— Jennifer Wilson (@jenwilsonTO) October 22, 2013
Paywalls are a sandbag strategy, says @mathewi #3tyyz. They protect things but don’t get you out of the troubled situation
— Jennifer Wilson (@jenwilsonTO) October 22, 2013
Media orgs growing most rapidly don’t have paywalls – @mathewi of online journalism at #3tyyz
— kate (@katecharb) October 22, 2013
#3TYYZ @mathewi compares paywalls to sandbags. They stop the water, but don’t stop the cause of the water #cdnmedia
— Sarah Foster (@sarah_millar) October 22, 2013
There’s never been a better time to be a consumer of information – @mathewi #3TYYZ
— Nicholas Ward (@nicvatar) October 22, 2013
“There has never been a better time to be a reader.” @mathewi #3tyyz pic.twitter.com/iCLsE1Aivm
— Diane Bégin (@dibegin) October 22, 2013
#3tyyz @mathewi “If you want to be informed abt the news…you have the ability to do that faster, deeper, better than ever before” #cdnmedia
— Sarah Foster (@sarah_millar) October 22, 2013
. @mathewi quotes @acarvin’s “random act of journalism” idea in regards to “regular” people covering the news. #3TYYZ #cdnmedia
— Sarah Foster (@sarah_millar) October 22, 2013
We are now in a place where we can crowd source fact checking and verification around the globe in real time #3tyyz
— Jennifer Wilson (@jenwilsonTO) October 22, 2013
#3TYYZ @mathewi lists getting real time feedback from readers as a good thing, even though “many of my colleagues would disagree” #cdnmedia
— Sarah Foster (@sarah_millar) October 22, 2013
Listening to @mathewi talk about the good and bad of journalism today #3TYYZ ^jo pic.twitter.com/iaW1ZMejjJ
— Cision Canada (@Cision_Canada) October 22, 2013
We’re not selling print or cat gifs, we’re selling trust – that is why readers come back. They want the truth and to be informed #3tyyz
— Jennifer Wilson (@jenwilsonTO) October 22, 2013
#3TYYZ Question to @mathewi about writing for free: Is viability enough payment? Mathew says people always wrote for free (1/2) #cdnmedia
— Sarah Foster (@sarah_millar) October 22, 2013
#3TYYZ Ppl write because they want to, not b/c they want to get paid. It’s bad because paid writers see these ppl as competition. #cdnmedia
— Sarah Foster (@sarah_millar) October 22, 2013
#3TYYZ @mathewi is anti-paywall, but not anti “charging people for things. You just have to figure out what you’re charging people for.”
— Sarah Foster (@sarah_millar) October 22, 2013
#3TYYZ points to papers who drop their paywalls during breaking news because it’s “so important”. So then content the rest of the time isn’t
— Sarah Foster (@sarah_millar) October 22, 2013
#3TYYZ @mathewi points to @guardian as a similar paper to @TorontoStar, but who chose NOT to enact a paywall, but to spread journalism wide.
— Sarah Foster (@sarah_millar) October 22, 2013
But there is talk the Guardian is considering a pay wall because of the heavy losses it is sustaining, #3TYYZ
— Bill Doskoch (@billdinTO) October 22, 2013
Journalism skills are more important than ever – ability to quickly read, verify and understand loads of information #3tyyz
— Jennifer Wilson (@jenwilsonTO) October 22, 2013
“I don’t think people should go to journalism school, but I do think people should study journalism.” — @mathewi #3TYYZ #cdnmedia
— Sarah Foster (@sarah_millar) October 22, 2013
Buzzfeed is using cat gifs the same way newspapers used to use classifieds – to pay for the journalism #3tyyz
— Jennifer Wilson (@jenwilsonTO) October 22, 2013
A smart speaker and a generous guy. @mathewi spends lots of time meeting people after Third Tuesday #3tyyz pic.twitter.com/JT8jd1Bjyo
— Joseph Thornley (@thornley) October 22, 2013
All in all, it was another night of thought provoking discussion with people who share common interests (if not common perspectives.) This is why I still enjoy Third Tuesday after seven years. Interesting people interested in other people and willing to share their ideas and learn from one another.
A big thank you to our sponsors, Rogers Communications and Cision Canada, for helping us to keep Third Tuesday alive.
And a huge thank you to Mathew Ingram for his generosity in sharing his ideas in two different cities on two successive nights. If you get a chance to see Mathew speak, jump at it. It will be worth it. And in the meantime, subscribe to his long form posts on GigaOm and his content curation on Twitter. I’m sure you’ll soon agree that Mathew Ingram is a “must read.”