I just finished several weeks of intense engagement thinking, talking, brainstorming, and traveling for the future of news. I am only going to put a couple of links here for now. Summary and a piece about how the conferences and events relate to each other will be forthcoming.

On February 22, I was a panelist on the Chicago Journalism Townhall. Then I was off to Miami for WeMedia, and then March 1-4 it was off to St. Petersburg for Journalism That Matters at Poynter Institute. You can even watch some of the “action” from the conference.

http://www.ustream.tv/flash/video/1202993Free live streaming by Ustream

Notably, more online news consumers 50% said they access news sites indirectly — by following links to specific stories – than by going directly to the home pages of news organizations 41%. Among online news consumers younger than 25, 64% said they more often follow links to stories, rather than going directly to the sites of news organizations.

via Pew Research Center: Newspapers Face a Challenging Calculus.

Other notable items from this report: 39% said they read a newspaper yesterday — either print or online — down from 43% in 2006. The proportion reporting that they read just the print version of a newspaper fell by roughly a quarter, from 34% to 25% over the two-year period.

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