Posted by Eric Newton, VP, Journalism Program:

150 enterprising Washington DC news people talked about using social media to connect with citizens and work with former rivals ‘ this from the day-long NewsVision symposium March 30, Knight Conference Center, Newseum ‘ in this video, innovators from the Orlando Sentinel, USA TODAY, Publish 2 and the University of Maryland looked at new ways networking can improve journalism ‘ panel slides here (the first and last are the funniest).

The Newspaper Guild , the Knight Foundation , and the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism , sponsored NewsVision in partnership with ONA and the Philip Merrill College of Journalism. Good quote: “This is a crisis we will not waste. The answer for us is not to retrench and just to go back to what we do best … we have to innovate.” — NPR CEO Vivian Schiller ‘ NPR is retraining in partnership with the Knight Digital Media Center . Videos of Politico’s John Harris , others are at the NewsVision site’ also a new survey of online journalists.