Newspaper 2.0 was a one-day workshop to explore challenges and opportunities in the new Internet-enabled newspaper marketplace. The workshop brought together journalists, scholars and leading thinkers who shared a common interest in the future of daily and weekly journals — with a particular interest in Santa Barbara as a region where new approaches might be explored.

The workshop was sponsored by the Center for Information Technology & Society (CITS) and the Transliteracies Project, both at UCSB. It was hosted by Doc Searls, a CITS Research Fellow and journalist with feet in both the print and online domains.

The format for the workshop was open and participatory, on the Open Space model. The goal was not just to discuss issues, but to move understanding and projects forward. Participants chose their own topics, and the workshop broke into groups to discuss those topics. Workshops on this model tend to be lively, informative, and often very practical — which was certainly the case with this one.