Top tips for moderators…
It must be tough to moderate a panel when you are the smartest one on the podium. It’s not yet happened to me but I imagine it must be agony knowing that the audience would rather listen to you.
Faisal Rehman Malik, a TV anchor man from Pakistan, was the moderator for a panel on “Innovation in broadcast journalism for the 21st century.” He spoke for 24 minutes out of a 30 minute slot about his new TV project and then asked his panel to ask him questions about it. Brilliantly innovative because as a moderator you can still include your panel for a few minutes while having spared your audience a tiresome 30 minutes.
And what is Mr Malik’s new TV project? It’s a talk show about innovation.
(BTW, he was chewing gum throughout his talk.)
Afterwards, I asked Mr Malik if guests would be allowed to talk on his talk show. He said yes, they would. I said good luck with that.
At the conference social mixer I had an interesting chat with one of his panelists, Cheryl Frank about innovation journalism, it’s too bad the rest of the conference didn’t get a chance to hear some of her insights.
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Thursday afternoon at the Innovation Journalism Conference:
Are startup media companies better at covering innovation than traditional newspapers and magazines?
Moderator: Johan Anderberg - INJO Fellow ‘08 hosted by Fortune.
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