Canadian University Press National Conference
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I'm training at the Edmonton Sun! demos.scribblelive.com/Event/Edmonton…by Allendria via twitter 1/11/2014 12:59:02 AM -
A scribblelive training sesh at the @EdmontonSun instagram.com
by Allendria via twitter 1/11/2014 1:07:59 AM -
#NASH76 I did become a better journalist through JSchool. Having the JSchool stamp really shows that you can do mu... live.j-source.ca/Event/Canadian…Jan. 11, 2014
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Don Iveson, Mayor of Edmonton
Don Iveson was elected Edmonton’s 35th mayor in the fall of 2013. He was first elected to City Council in 2007, and served two terms as Councillor for southwest Edmonton. Iveson graduated from the University of Alberta, during which time he worked as The Gateway’s managing editor. He then served as CUP president in 2001. In 2002, Iveson returned to The Gateway and became its business manager. Over the next three years, he developed the organization’s commercial operations, making it the most financially successful campus newspaper in the country. Mayor Iveson now envisions Edmonton as a globally competitive city, ardently supporting the city’s entrepreneurial culture.
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Just tweeted, missed @shelbyblackley – but I sure can. RT @Stermuende : @Allendria @shelbyblackley Can we meet up at 14:00 - 15:00 today?by Allendria via twitter 1/11/2014 6:27:44 PM
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And so, doing an ad hoc @ScribbleLive demo at 2pm in the lounge. #nash76 :)by Allendria via twitter 1/11/2014 6:28:33 PM
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9/11 hit even student newspapers. They were making money from ads before; after, nothing.The Gateway started looking at other sources of ad revenue... And I missed this part of the talk trying to deal with internet issues.He continues: At a not-for-profit without shareholders, you get to dump your earnings back into your enterprise.
They at the Gateway decided to give people the best tools and training possible. They did really well with local advertising – they went from $300,000 to $600,000 revenue. They paid their reporters more with that cash, a living wage. They did take tobacco advertising – that was a debate at CUP, too, whether to take it. They decided to, but got criticism from other papers. -
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Here's the Edmonton Journal profile of Iveson when he was running for mayor:
Iveson likes to get ‘dirt under his fingernails’ as respite from council city-building work
www.edmontonjournal.comDon Iveson’s idea of yardwork is a little more ambitious than that of the average Edmonton homeowner. While many people are content to dig a few flower beds and throw in some geraniums, Iveson has spent hundreds of hours transforming his entire front lawn into a diorama of Alberta. -
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In essence, there was a debate between student newspapers in 1988. At the CUP plenary session, they debated about whether student press was supposed to be an agent of social change or a neutral observer. It narrowly passed that they should be agents of social change, and a lot of newspapers left CUP.
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He wrote a business development for Campus Plus. He attached a job description, and cheekily suggested he move to Toronto to fill it. For personal reasons, he decided to stay in Edmonton – for his girlfriend, who became his wife.He doesn't know whether Campus Plus took his ideas and went bankrupt, or didn't take his ideas and failed.
He then went into the student union. He was unhappy with his representation in 2007, and ran for city council. Six years later, he ran for mayor. All with the intent of helping his community. -
He says newspapers should be seen as social enterprises, that can take managed risks, be invested in.
He says a lot of the newspapers he was dealing with were very conservative, and didn't see the changes coming. He worries about how much this has cost newspapers, how much newspapers have cost journalism, and how much that cost has affected society. (whoa!) -
At a lot of the newspapers, they'd have a business manager for life. Someone who didn't want to take risks, and saw lean times to get to a different kind of futures.
If your paper is autonomous, make sure you have outsiders on your board who have governance experience. -
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Have external auditors. Have people who are regularly involved and can give advice to the board.He saw the Gateway go through difficult times after he left, and he's seen it happen over and over and over at student organizations and newspapers.
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There are very few marquee journalism jobs out there he says. He didn't see the prospects, either.With this theme of entrepreneurship, we've got a really neat opportunity to see how something we start will station someone at city hall, and monitor more closely what the government is doing.
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What we do with that to set the tone in the community – it's key not only to students, but for the success of a whole community – it's only possible if there's the whole ecosystem.Need people to help hold them accountable.
He's envious, because we'll have to be creative. One of us will have an idea that will change the conversation in the community. It will be transported to other communities. It's not going to be easy – we'll have to be inventive. -
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Journalism's future will have many challenges and it's going to require innovation...and that's why we're here. #nash76Jan. 11, 2014
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Mayor @doniveson - A weak media contributes to weakness in society. Key keeping government accountable. #Spoton #NASH76Jan. 11, 2014- Reply
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Less journalists means less scrutiny on what is going on at city hall, which is bad for democracy, @doniveson says. #nash76Jan. 11, 2014- Reply
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Indeed. RT @mattfrehner : +1. RT @EK_Hudson : Mayor @doniveson : @CanUniPress do not under estimate the importance of good governance #nash76by Allendria via twitter 1/11/2014 6:59:36 PM
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Less journalists means less scrutiny on what is going on at city hall, which is bad for democracy, @doniveson says. #nash76 -
"Workers of the World: Repose!"
A oped, satire, that came to "bite him in the ass." It's an ode to laziness, he says. If you read it, you'll see that it's satire. Someone unearthed this in the campaign, and said he was a communist. He said "I am not now nor have I ever been a member of the Communism Party." A joke deflating the situation. -
Iveson student article raises red flag
Edmonton's mayoral race was tinted by an old-fashioned red scare on Monday.
An article written by mayoral candidate Don Iveson and published in the University of Alberta student newspaper in 1999 resurfaced Monday.
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The Gateway wants to know if he will represent them at the Gateway vs. Ubyssey danceoff.
He'll take it under advisement, he says.
Ubyssey left CUP, but they're back for the danceoff. He says he'll come back if they rejoin CUP.
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