Slate at 10: Online Media and the Future of Journalism featuring panelists Malcolm Gladwell, Arianna Huffington, Norm Pearlstine, Jacob Weisberg and moderated by Michael Kinsley.
When Slate launched in June 1996, online media was little more than a novelty. News now breaks first on the web; internet news sites are primary information sources for young (and not-so-young) readers. Online magazines like Slate and the blogs are driving and at times helping to shape political debate. Print newspapers and magazines are being reborn online. Podcasts, webcasts, texting, RSS feeds, and new technologies are continuing to change what journalism is and how we consume it.
In this forum, veterans of online journalism and observers will wrestle with the profound changes taking place in journalism.
Bio
Andy Bowers
Andy Bowers is a senior editor at Slate and oversees the magazine's radio and podcasting projects. Before joining Slate, he was a longtime correspondent and producer for National Public Radio; among other postings, he served as NPR's bureau chief in both London and Moscow and covered the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo. He is a graduate of Yale University and lives in Los Angeles.
Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1996. He is most recently the author of, What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures, and the New York Times best-selling books, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, and Outliers: The Story of Success.
Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington is a nationally syndicated columnist, author of eleven books and co-founder and editor of the HuffingtonPost.com. She is also co-host of "Left, Right & Center," public radio's popular political roundtable program.
Her weekly commentary is syndicated in newspapers across the country by Tribune Media Services. Huffington's many books include On Becoming Fearless...in Love, Work, and Life, Maria Callas: The Woman Behind the Legend, Picasso: Creator and Destroyer, Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption are Undermining America, and Fanatics and Fools: The Game Plan for Winning Back America.
Michael Kinsley
Michael Kinsley is the founding editor of Slate. He currently writes a column for both Slate and the Washington Post. Kinsley founded Slate in 1995 and was its editor for six years.
For two decades he was associated with The New Republic, as its editor and as author of its "TRB From Washington" column. He was editor-in-chief of Harper's, editorial and opinion editor of the Los Angeles Times, editor of the American Survey department at The Economist, and managing editor of The Washington Monthly.
Kinsley co-hosted CNN's Crossfire for six years, and also moderated William F. Buckley's Firing Line debates. Kinsley has written regular columns for The New Republic, Time, The Wall Street Journal and the Times of London.
Norman Pearlstine
Norman Pearlstine was editor-in-chief of Time, Inc., the world's largest magazine publisher, from 1995 until the end of 2005. Mr. Pearlstine oversaw the editorial content of TIME, Life, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, People, In Style, Money, and Entertainment Weekly to name a few. In 2004, the American Society of Magazine Editors gave him its Lifetime Achievement Award and inducted him into the Magazine Editors' Hall of Fame.
Prior to joining Time Inc., Mr. Pearlstine worked with Dow Jones & Company, except for a two-year period when he was an executive editor at Forbes magazine. He was also managing and then executive editor of The Wall Street Journal. He is currently a senior advisor to Time, Inc., He published the book, Off the Record: The Press, the Government, and the War over Anonymous Sources in 2008.
Jacob Weisberg
Jacob Weisberg is editor of Slate. He was previously Slate's chief political correspondent and the originator of its "Strange Bedfellow" and "Ballot Box" columns. Before joining Slate in 1996, he wrote about politics for magazines including the New Republic, Newsweek, and New York Magazine, and has written as well for Vanity Fair and the New York Times Magazine.
He is the co-author, with Robert E. Rubin, of In an Uncertain World. He is also the author of In Defense of Government, the 2000 eBook The Road to Chadville, and the Bushisms series.
I read everything online. I want it free. I research through online journals. Search technology on the internet is more efficient than library catalogs. I still read books, but eventually I'll read war and peace on an iphone. Sorry Malcom, paper is dead.
Arianna seems way in over her head here. She sounds like she just read an article about this "internet" thing in Wired and now she's, like, totally psyched on it!
Malcom Gladwell is also cracking me up. He's the Eeyore of the internet. Also, he has the best hair of anyone on the panel.