Winseck nominated for NPC seat

by Peter Johansen

Dwayne Winseck is in the running for the board of directors of the National Press Club of Canada Foundation.  The election will be held tomorrow night at the group’s annual general meeting.

He says gaining a seat would provide “a wonderful opportunity to be amongst a distinguished group of people working hard and heavy at grappling with the changes taking place across the journalistic and media landscape.”

Among areas he would like to focus on are copyright and news sharing, media industry consolidation, strategic communications and spin, and “how digital dimes and online readership can make up for lost dollars and real journalistic jobs in the emergent ‘network public sphere’.”

On another front, Dwayne returned from New Zealand recently.  He gave a lecture at Otago University and presented a keynote address on the political economies of media to the Journalism Media and Democracy Conference held at the Auckland University of Technology.