{"id":1141,"date":"2009-10-04T15:28:13","date_gmt":"2009-10-04T22:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/10\/najp_summit_blogger_fallout\/"},"modified":"2009-10-04T15:28:13","modified_gmt":"2009-10-04T22:28:13","slug":"najp_summit_blogger_fallout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/10\/najp_summit_blogger_fallout.html","title":{"rendered":"NAJP Summit: blogger fallout"},"content":{"rendered":"

Straight out of Texas,  Rainey Knudsen, founder and director of Glasstire<\/a>, was the star of the first ever National Summit on Arts Journalism<\/a>, held in L.A. on Friday. More on Glasstire to follow, but first, a few words about Douglas McLennan, who conceived it and produced it with Sasha Anawalt. <\/p>\n

McLennan is best known as founder and editor of  ArtsJournal.<\/a> If you’re reading this, you’re on an AJ site. ArtsJournal is an aggregate of arts news in English around the world, with the additional of a streaming rail of posts from AJ arts bloggers, including me. <\/p>\n

More alliances: I live-blogged the summit, here<\/a>, at Doug’s request. Throw in my friendship with him and clearly I have a dog in this, which influences but does not account for my belief that the summit went well. <\/p>\n

Given the free fall of traditional arts journalism, this summit is the first to consider options for replacing it. <\/p>\n

Tyler Green<\/a> (AJ blogger) and Paddy Johnson<\/a> (nonAJ blogger) were disappointed in advance. Both objected to the idea that a nonprofit can be a business. They say opening the competition to nonprofits was changing the rules. <\/p>\n

Although I hesitate to dispute a business question with two people whose entrepreneurial savvy overwhelms my own, I side with the summit on this one. It never said nonprofits couldn’t apply or weren’t businesses.<\/p>\n

Nor did it change the rules by “adding” five project models. <\/p>\n

After an open call for entries, jurors selected five models to present at the conference. From these, NAJP members voted to select three top entries, all of whom will get cash awards, starting at $9,000. (Winners not yet announced.)<\/p>\n

In addition, the Summit asked representatives from five businesses working in support of arts and\/or arts journalism to present. They were not part of the contest, were not chosen by jurors and are not eligible for awards. In saying the summit added five projects after the fact, Johnson and Green are factually wrong.  <\/p>\n

Johnson also wrote that she didn’t watch the summit, which was live-streamed around the world and is still available. Disclosure is good, but why didn’t she watch, especially as she intended to write about it? Even though she was traveling when it took place, she could have caught it later.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, I can’t help but admire the vigorous way she attacked McLennan’s baby. He was on the Warhol grants panel this year and successfully argued for her to get one. If speaking her version of truth to power means biting the hand that feeds her, she chomps down. <\/p>\n

Back to Glasstire, which Johnson praised as a good model. (Note to Johnson: it’s a nonprofit.) It covers Texas, which is a way of covering the world, as a lot of art flows through the Lone Star State. In nearly a decade of existence online, Glasstire has attracted terrific writers and given them a platform to be regional without being narrow. <\/p>\n

I also like that it’s not a design wonder. It serves those who want to think about art, not just click through razzle-dazzle. Its existence is a fundamental challenge to those who maintain that New York and L.A. are where the U.S. art action is, and artists\/critics living elsewhere are delusional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Straight out of Texas,  Rainey Knudsen, founder and director of Glasstire, was the star of the first ever National Summit on Arts Journalism, held in L.A. on Friday. More on Glasstire to follow, but first, a few words about Douglas McLennan, who conceived it and produced it with Sasha Anawalt. McLennan is best known as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}