Archive for October, 2007
Chris Lydon – Open Source Radio
Posted on 03. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Introduction and Narrative: Open Source, the radio show, was our first crack at extending talk radio to the Web. We’re working now on a second crack. The puzzle is how best to plant a democratic, spoken, wide-ranging, welcoming, lively and fairly serious conversation into the vastly expanded architecture of the Internet, where it can be […]
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Howard Weaver – McClatchy
Posted on 02. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Introduction and Narrative: Howard Weaver has been involved with the interactive efforts of newspapers for his entire adult life – the editorial pages. “Even in the old analog world there was a kind of interactivity, I think it’s natural to come to this stage where we have better tools to try and extend that umbrella,” […]
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Micah Sifry – Personal Democracy Forum
Posted on 02. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Introduction and Narrative: Personal Democracy Forum is an annual conference and ongoing weblog that focuses on how technology is changing politics. Personal Democracy Forum was founded by Andrew Rasiej, who has a background in music, education nonprofits and advising politicians. Micah Sifry worked on the first conference and was soon taken on as a partner. […]
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Jennifer Carroll – Gannett
Posted on 02. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Introduction and Narrative: In the past year Gannett has undergone the largest transformation in the company’s 102-year history. All 86 papers across the country, except for USA Today, have changed from traditional news centers to 24-hour, local, multimedia “Information centers.” The blueprint for the change cited seven areas that each Gannett paper would be required […]
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Derek Willis – Database Journalism at Washingtonpost.com
Posted on 02. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Introduction and Narrative: It was in graduate school at the University of Florida, studying journalism, when Willis found his passion with database journalism. He was taking a class of survey research, analyzing the results, which showed him how much information is already in a database or what could be construed as a database. What finally […]
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Jeff Burkett – WashingtonPost.Newsweek Interactive blogs
Posted on 02. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Introduction and Narrative: The idea that eventually became the Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive (WPNI) Blogroll Ad Network formed a year ago this August. It began from a series of blog posts Burkett wrote addressing the question of how to place advertiser’s content that doesn’t fit on the paper or website of a traditional news organization with its […]
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Jim Colgan – WNYC Radio
Posted on 01. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Introduction and Narrative: This August WNYC Radio’s “Brian Lehrer Show” in New York experimented in their first crowdsourced investigation. The popular public affairs show asked more of their listeners than the pithy comments, but hard data on how many SUV’s were parked on their New York City block. “It was very organic and a logical […]
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Michael Rosenblum – Democratizing Video via Rosenblum Associates
Posted on 01. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Introduction and Narrative: In 1988 Rosenblum left his job as a producer for CBS. He was unhappy, “young and idealistic. I quite this very good job and took the video camerae to see if I could do it myself,” says Rosenblum. Using a small camera and laptop, he went on to become one of the […]
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Rachel Sterne – GroundReport
Posted on 01. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Introduction and Narrative: GroundReport started as a side project for Rachel Sterne after reporting on the United Nations Security Council on events taking place in Darfur. Sterne, who worked for LimeWire at the time, was concerned and agitated by the lack of public awareness about these events. About one year ago GroundReport, a network of […]
