Jewneric: A New Platform for the Jewish Voice

This is part two of Jewneric's coverage of the Herzliya Conference, Israel's foremost global policy annual gathering, drawing together Israeli and international participants from the highest levels of government, business and academia to address pressing national, regional and global strategic issues.

I wasn’t really sure what to expect at the Herzliya Conference. I knew a lot of big names (Tzipi Livni, Bibi Netanyahu, Shimon Peres, James Woolsey and more) were going to be speaking but how could I possibly relate to such speeches. I figured they’d be long and probably a bit boring, but most importantly I didn’t think they would speak to me, a twenty-two year old college student who cares a lot more about when the last season of Lost will begin than when Israeli, American and various politicians repeat the same messages on democracy and peace. Then I got to know the new media team that I'm stationed with for the duration of the conference.

If you stroll into the News Room on the second floor of the Sammy Ofer School of Communications at IDC you’ll find rows of high tech computers with dual screens and a group of college students who care about Israel, love playing on the internet and want to show the world that they could capture content from the conference better than anyone else while in short form (Tweets, Facebook posts and YouTube clips). The IDC students are extremely impressive. In addition to producing professional radio segments, editing video content at the speed of light and carefully monitoring and taking notes on each panel for real time posting, they are currently in the middle of final exams. That is unheard of on any other campus in the world. Follow the New Media team here.

The second thing keeping us Millennials on our toes are the amazing interviews taking place right in front of our eyes in the Sammy Ofer School’s professional studios. David Saranga, our Chief Editor has interviewed U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Kurtzer, Former CIA Director James Woolsey and Minister of Enviornmental Protection Gilad Erdan, just to name a few, for short and exciting clips that really portray these important figures in a more real and fun way.

Here’s a behind the scenes clip on the New Media Project.

Read Part 1 of  Jewneric's coverage of the Herzliya Conference:

"New Media at the IDC Herzliya Conference"

Natan Edelsburg is an undergrad studying communications at NYU’s Steinhardt School. He blogs for NYULocal.com and Examiner.com. Natan is currently in Israel helping the new media team upload the content from the 10th Annual IDC Herzliya Conference and amplifying the messages via Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.  Natan is currently stationed in the New Media room of the Herzliya Conference where he is reporting on behalf of Jewneric and officially as part of the IDC NYU New Media Team. The New Media Team, headed by David Saranga and a team of IDC and NYU students is uploading messages from the conference and amplifying them via Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to jumpstart conversations via the social web.