Voting concluded October 23, 2009. All members of the National Arts Journalism Program and alumni of the NEA Arts Journalism Institutes were eligible to vote for their favorite Summit project. The voting academy has demonstrated through their participation in one of these organizations that they are professional arts journalists. Three prizes have been awarded. First prize is $7,500; Second is $5,000; and Third is $2,500. Results announced October 30, 2009.
The Journalism today essentially is to distributing an information in a new alternative media. Flavorpill has giving a fact that arts and culture news can be assembled and distributed on the Internet via digital-content company and at the same time creating an audience by deftly exploiting a new medium
Bambang Asrini Widjanarko
Freelance Art Writer
Jakarta-Indonesia
Alumni the NEA Arts Journalism Institutes in the Visual Art 2009
For Doug, not the summit: ok, I’m on fire…made the whole radio station watch AJP summit. Can you make a live presentation to KUOW?
marcie
I withhold my vote in protest of the project on the projects and how little most of it has to do with arts journalism.
I’m sort of with Jeffrey. I don’t know how any of these proposals have anything to do with actual arts journalism, or how these proposals are trying to redefine arts journalism in a way that would both provide the public with coverage of the arts in various media and provide jobs for those skilled and trained to write about it.
All the projects have merit, but for me, Flyp is the one that takes the 20th-century concept of an arts magazine and zooms it forward. Every online newspaper & mag has a story and maybe a couple of photos and a video link, but Flyp rethinks the whole shape and presentation of the story. If the CEO’s “tune-vs.-whole-song” concept of just having minimal text is troubling, the idea that the links and sidebars are limitless generally makes up for it.
Certainly not the most useful or community-minded of the sites, but it may be the one with the most novel and adaptable prototype.
It’s interesting that two of my theater critic colleagues have similar concerns to me. I think it’s because in our field, we want to encourage new critics who are educated about the artform, who write well, who have seen a great deal, to share their views with readers/watchers at a time when arts education has declined dramatically, and pop/celebrity culture is so inflated. Why throw a 300-year old baby out with the bathwater? For that reason, I like the mixed media, info-based FLYP and Flavorpill best, because they create a space for good writing as well as reader feedback, interaction, etc.
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