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Audio: #RealMedia launch new UK network of independent media

Chris | 01.03.2015 21:04 | Indymedia | Other Press | Sheffield

Attached are audio recordings of the opening and closing plenary sessions of the Real Media Gathering 2015 held at the Friends Meeting House in Manchester on 28th February 2015. Speakers at the opening plenary were Kam Sandhu, Donnachadh McCarthy, Samantha Asumadu, Des Freedman and Nafeez Ahmed. The closing plenary included Angela Haggerty, Jamie Kelsey-Fry, Natasha Boojihawon and others.

Audio Real Media Opening Plenary - mp3 55M

Audio Real Media Closing Plenary - mp3 48M

Donnachadh McCarthy
Donnachadh McCarthy

Samantha Asumadu
Samantha Asumadu

Des Freedman
Des Freedman

Nafeez Ahmed
Nafeez Ahmed

Closing Plenary
Closing Plenary


Tweets from the conference used the hash tag #realmedia  https://twitter.com/search?q=%23realmedia see also the Real Media Twitter feed  https://twitter.com/RealMediaGB

Press release for the gathering:  http://realmedia.press/2015/02/11/press-release-new-uk-network-of-independent-media-to-launch-at-manchester-conference/

List of speakers:  http://realmedia.press/conference-speakers/

Video of the conference should soon be available on the Real Media web site  http://realmedia.press/

Chris
- Homepage: http://realmedia.press/

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yes but

01.03.2015 22:19

Actually independent independent media? Excellent! I'd like to hear their plan on how they won't end up being taken over and effectively demolished by one tiny little faction whose only distinguishing quality is obstinancy.

query

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The elephant in the room

02.03.2015 12:18

Although it was touched on by Jamie Kelsey-Fry in his speach the major problem with media projects of this kind is the one that nobody wants to talk about. 99% of the public simply don't care and don't engage with them. Many projects have come along promising "real news" but in reality the largest and most well read websites for news in the UK are the BBC and the Daily Mail (the Daily Mail website is now the most read in the world !).

We need to address why what we have to say is of no real interest to the overwhelming majority of the population.

Ian

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re query

02.03.2015 19:55

How exactly do you demolish something that is going to be mothballed?

If you're unhappy that we're still going, then why don'tyou boycott the site as an act of principle?

twat detective

Better commuications

03.03.2015 09:08

You havn't said anything about what Real Media is, what they advocate or seek to achieve, and, in terms of providing info which might encourage readers to listen to the audio files, you've given little more than a list of names of speakers, whose names will (with all due respect) mean almost nothing to anyone outside your immediate circle of contacts.

In order to communicate effectively, you need to make it easy for your intended audience - provide readers with some incentive to click on the links (especially when listening to moderately long audio files requires quite an investment of time and effort on the part of people who might only have a cursory interest in whatever it is you're trying to communicate)

PR person

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Indymoribund - 92% dead since the coup

04.03.2015 23:59

With the announcement of #RealMedia, it's a good time to check in on the status of Indymedia UK. It's now been in the hands of the May Day clique for almost four years. How has it fared?

Indymedia UK editors won't (can't, actually) admit the site has foundered badly under May Day, and will insist - with characteristic charm - that no one can prove otherwise without direct access to the server logs, which you won't get, so go fuck yourself. But it turns out that they do provide, despite themselves, the information you need to see just how the site participation has sunk.

How about the open newswire, the heart and soul of the Indymedia movement? Here we can do an apples-to-apples comparison with February 2011, the last pre-coup February. A glance at Indymedia's own archives - publicly available information - shows that in February 2011, slightly over a thousand stories were posted to the newswire. In February 2015, there were only eighty. That is, as compared to the pre-MayDay days, only four short years ago, Indymedia UK is ninety-two percent dead. May Day have cleverly 92% killed it.

fax n figgers

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competition

07.03.2015 21:12

Isnt it odd that, as soon as a commenter pointed out what a shit job you were doing on the center column and the promoted newswire, suddenly by great big coincidence, articles start popping up at a more accelerated rate?

If you need posters to remind you of what you're supposed to be doing but have slacked off ridiculously, maybe you're simply the wrong guys to be editing Indymedia.

If there was a general sense among activists that Indymedia was doing its job, there wouldn't be a need for a new #realmedia.

major coincidence

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More defective work

08.03.2015 13:40

The feature appeared because there was an action, and reports were posted to the newswire.

Anonymous comments are not really worth bothering about bearing in mind the amount of trolling in comments.

And real media promises the 'best of independent journalism'

Now what was that about vanity publishing?

Anyway if you really want to have a discussion about Indymedia then read the site and work out how to do it.

Hidden as complaint about moderation/inaccurate/non news

IMCista

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question is

11.03.2015 01:20

I wonder whether Real Media will have a policy of hiding or deleting every comment it disagrees with.

one wonders

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