Archive for March, 2008
Leonard Witt – Representative Journalism
Posted on 14. Mar, 2008 by David Cohn.
Chris Densmore, Chris Peck and Leonard Witt spent a big part of yesterday with our Northfield, Minnesota collaborators at Locally Grown, where the first Representative Journalismexperiment will take place. Representative Journalism is Leonard Witt’s project to experiment in new business models of journalism. You can listen to the podcast where Leonard and the rest talk about […]
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Bill Densmore – Journalism That Matters
Posted on 10. Mar, 2008 by David Cohn.
Bringing technologists and journalists into closer orbit with other is one longterm goal of the Networked Journalism Summit, and several of NetJourn’s participants are now hard at work on an event in Silicon Valley to do just that. NewsTools2008.org is a project of the Journalism That Matters collaborative set for April 30-May 3 at the […]
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Jennifer Carroll – Gannett
Posted on 10. Mar, 2008 by David Cohn.
Our major focus now is leveraging our new social networking tools across the company to engage communities, improve crowdsourcing and watchdog reporting. We’ve developed deep resource sites with examples and best practices. The Democrat and Chronicle just launched today with a networking site for Young Professionals and Wine Lovers. Check out the new design and […]
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Rachel Sterne – GroundReport.com
Posted on 10. Mar, 2008 by David Cohn.
Since the summit, GroundReport has focused on international coverage and syndication. We’re syndicating content so that people can find GroundReport stories wherever they live online. One tool that helps people get GroundReport is our news widget, which works on iGoogle, Apple dashboard, Netvibes and Vista. We’ve also integrated with Technorati and are working to do […]
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Chris Anderson – Journalism Schools Blog
Posted on 10. Mar, 2008 by David Cohn.
It’s a very small project, I admit, but the CUNY Conference inspired me to start a new (hopefully, eventually, collaborative) blog: JournalismSchool.wordpress.com. The origins of which are detailed here.
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Andrew Fitzgerald – Current TV
Posted on 10. Mar, 2008 by David Cohn.
From Current TV – We’ve re-branded our citizen journalism program as “Collective Journalism,” emphasizing the collaborative nature of our work, and we’ve begun to focus our efforts on producing group investigations from different contributors around the world.
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Steve McNally – Parade.com
Posted on 10. Mar, 2008 by David Cohn.
We’ve been working in earnest to put several Networked Journalism ideas into effect; foremost has been getting our “Parade Partner News” pipeline off the ground. Parade’s print pub is distributed by more than 400 newspapers nationwide. We’re working to deepen those partnerships online, as well. “Parade Partner News” is a chance for us to promote […]
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Solana Larsen – Global Voices
Posted on 07. Mar, 2008 by David Cohn.
Since the Networked Journalism Summit: Global Voices created a new website called Voices Without Votes together with Reuters. It’s a pretty massive task to undertake an overview of what world bloggers are saying about the US presidential election, but we are doing it bit by bit with the help of volunteers and colleagues at Global […]
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Dan Pacheco – Bakersfield California
Posted on 06. Mar, 2008 by David Cohn.
I think our most interesting development right now in Bakersfield is the digital revolution happening in our newsroom. As of a few weeks ago, the 80-some person newsroom in the Calfornian reorganized to focus on around-the-clock online coverage. Any story that ultimately appears in print (and a lot more than that) is blogged first, with […]
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The New York Observer – Politicker.com
Posted on 05. Mar, 2008 by David Cohn.
From Brian Kroski who was interviewed at the Networked Journalism Summit here. “Observer Media Group, the parent company of The New York Observer, is launching a project covering local politics through a distributed network of reporters, editors and columnists. This project will put reporters on the ground in all 50 states of the US, covering […]
