Nagoya, January 26 - Stewart Cheifet, media division president of the Image Fortress Corporation, discussed the state of American media with an audience of journalists, politicians, academics and industry executives at the Nagoya American Center.

Mr. Cheifet spoke about the challenges and benefits of so-called “new media” including user-uploaded video sites, blogs and RSS aggregators.

Highlighting the use of these new tools in the 2008 presidential campaign, Mr. Cheifet stated that more traditional media outlets must build new business models to succeed in this rapidly changing media environment.