"On the Convention - New Media Stream Into an Old Tradition" - NYTimes.com

"Yahoo mixes old and new in Internet-age news service" - AFP

"Why eBay Wants To Be Amazon" - NPR

"DIY books turn a page in publishing" - Marketplace

""Media and Democracy" forum participants mostly upbeat" - Poynter Online - Romenesko

This would be good to review for anyone planning to attend the Forum.

"Holy Cash Cow, Batman! Content Is Back at Time Warner" - NYTimes.com

Another good discussion item for this year's Forum!

"The Media Equation - All of Us, the Arbiters of News" - NYTimes.com

I wonder if there is any chance of getting David CARR to come to the Forum?

"Is Google a Media Company?" - NYTimes.com

A wonderful subject for some discussion at the Forum in November......

International Center for Journalists Awards Dinner

Alas, this highly worthwhile event in Washington, DC conflicts with the Monaco Media Forum this year. I encourage everyone who may attend the Forum to look at the International Center for Journalists website and to consider making a contribution to ICFJ in lieu of their attendance. In this way, it would be nice to think that the Forum participants were able to be a part of two events at the same time!

"Billboard Media & Money"

This conference occurs a month prior to the Monaco Media Forum. I hope it will be possible to draw on what is said in New York for the program in Monaco. Perhaps we can identify one or more people who attend both to share some of the thinking that comes out of the New York event with those who attend the Forum.

US presidential election and the media....

The Monaco Media Forum will take place this year just a few days after the presidential election in the United States. What a great opportunity this timing presents to the Forum to review how the media of the US - but also media around the world - dealt with this important event. How well did new technologies and new services serve the interests of the US, its voters and all of the people of the world affected by the outcome? I hope some time will be put aside for this discussion.

Salah Choudhury and the Prince Rainier II prize

This Wikipedia entry provides some rough background on the man who received the Prince Rainier II prize at last year's Monaco Media Forum. I do not know if he will be invited back this year. This is his rather odd newspaper always containing a flashing banner ad for a US Congressman (Mark KIRK, Republican-Illinois).