Ivan Petkov

GRReporter correspondent in Varna

Not long ago ended the Fifth global meeting of the Bulgarian media, which was broadly covered and analyzed by the media. Following, I will present you my entirely subjective view of the media forum, because of three reasons.

First, because the feeling I was left with is not from any official or formal meeting but from communicating of people with people, exchanging opinions, ideas and experience.

Second, in one of the many discussions there, one of my interlocutors had the opinion that in the following years, the media will go under a severe development (especially the online media) and it will combine the traditional informational characteristic with the personal experience and the social element of communicating. More interaction!

Third, due to its broad media attention, including during the meeting itself, I do not want this to be just one more article on this topic. The way people interact has changed and this is thanks to few popular social networks and blogs. This is why, it is my desire this article to try and present a more subjective view of the event and in particular the social experiment. Yes dear reader, the following years will be ones of very interesting online social experiments. They will be done on the try-fail basis and this way a new way of communicating will be developed and the traditional idea of a “media” and “news” will be changed. The Bulgarian media will actively participate, or at least I can promise this about GRReporter.

So, it seems that I have started with my conclusions from the meeting. But those conclusions are needed, in order for the stressed subjective part of this article to be understood. I hope you will enjoy it. And so – full ahead, because the luck smiles to the brave ones!