I attended the Conference SKUP Norwegian journalists last weekend. There were around 560 journalists from all over Norway in presence more than a handful of international speakers, including myself, investigations editor of the guardian David Leigh and one of the founders of Wikileaks: Julian Assange.
I was blown away by the number of journalists present as I've never been to a Conference UK with something close to this number of journalists. In Scandinavia, the tradition is for reporters to collaborate and share knowledge.In the United Kingdom there are still always above the hyper-competition of Fleet Street, where journalists tend to view affair with suspicion and instinct is keeping self-knowledge. While this has some advantages, in the present climate it makes more sense for journalists to band together, especially when it comes to common interests, such as defamation, freedom of expression and information.
Most of the talks were in Norwegian, so I can't offer much lighting upon them even if I heard about some amazing journalists: one of which was exposing his ninth judicial, another has written a book on bank robbery Norway's most famous.
The speaker that impressed me most was Julian Assange.I tweeted a lot from your session (@ newsbrooke), but one thing struck me: said that despite the primary source material release to anyone and everyone through Wikileaks – not become larger scandal stories until written by a journalist expert at a mainstream newspaper. mentioned the issue of a U.S. military manual leaked in relation to abuse at Abu Ghraib/Guantanamo Bay along with a few others. an army of citizen journalists didn't know what to do with this and past.Was just the experienced reporters at institutions of mass media who wrote about it and has a history.
It seems that there is hope for the traditional print, after all.
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