How do "we" think about new/digital media?  In the room today, several posited ideas of ways to get beyond a binary approach.

"The role of media is to inform the public and encourage them to engage and participate.  The role of new media is to give them the means to do it," noted Stephen Salyer, president of the Salzburg Global Seminar and the former long-time president of Public Radio International (PRI). 

Concerns about citizen journalism, social networking and the new digital space, also raised concerns about the definition of journalists today.  Speaker Jeff Jarvis noted that the turf wars over what is "professional journalism" often begged the question as to what was meant by "professional."  Are the debates about who is a "professional journalist" concerned with the economic relationship "professional" journalists have with a legacy news outlet, or are they concerned about whether the digital providers of information adhere to "professional" standards of ethics?