March 24 Journal-isms Roundtable: How journalists can survive, thrive on the web

How can journalists survive and thrive in the new environment of social media and social media influencers?

That will be the subject of the next Journal-isms Roundtable, to be held by Zoom at 7 p.m. Eastern on Monday, March 24.

Our panelists are:

•  Meredith D. Clark, Ph.D, researcher, journalist, teacher, media consultant and author of “We Tried to Tell Y’all: Black Twitter and the Rise of Digital Counternarratives.”

•  Adriana Lacy, who has spent more than a decade working in audience engagement, including working at The New York Times and Axios, and now heads her own consulting agency to help newsrooms adopt the best practices of creator journalism.

•  Philip Lewis, deputy editor at HuffPost, news aggregator and president of the Washington Association of Black Journalists, who was called “The Anderson Cooper of Black Twitter” last year by Wired magazine.

•  Samantha Ragland, vice president, journalism programs, American Press Institute; journalist, educator and digital strategist. She is quoted at length in Editor & Publisher, saying, “Traditional outlets can learn from influencers’ audience engagement strategies, while creators can benefit from established journalistic practices.”

Fortunately for all concerned, Klaudia Jaźwińska wrote for Columbia Journalism Review, “recent months have shown growing recognition among some traditional journalists of the value in viewing their relationship with so-called influencers as complementary or collaborative, rather than competitive.”

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