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Slattery, Goldfield, Sanneh, Hughes, and Rawls-Ivy at Wednesday's panel.
Like in-person local news reporting, local arts and culture reviewing is going through a paradigm shift from old-school corporate for-profit media to new-media nonprofit models. A panel of old-school panelists shared perspective on that shifting landscape Wednesday with purveyors of the new.
That panel discussion took place at the KNOWN co-working space on Orange Street. Members of the Independent Review Crew — a new network of local reviewers in cities across the country organized by the Online Journalism Project (which also publishes the New Haven Independent) — gathered at KNOWN for the event.
They heard four veterans mix it up about how they do their craft and how the work will be done in the future: Independent and Review Crew Arts Editor Brian Slattery, Kelefa Sanneh and Hannah Goldfield of the New Yorker, and Jazmine Hughes of The New York Times Magazine. The latter three began honing their craft as high-schoolers in New Haven before their careers took them to the Big Apple.
Babz Rawls-Ivy, host of WNHH FM’s “LoveBabz LoveTalk” and editor of the Inner-City News, moderated the panel along with nonprofit arts publisher and audience builder Stacey Peters. Actually, the panel’s members joined in the moderating/question-asking as well during the lively discussion.
