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Mark Potts – Backfence
Posted on 19. Sep, 2007 by David Cohn.
Introduction and Narrative: Mark Potts began sketching the idea for Backfence while working for Washingtonpost.com. Potts was trying to imagine what a local newspaper product would look like on the web. “Newspapers have trouble doing news down to the town level or below that, they are too big, and it is too expensive to staff,” […]
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Jarah Euston – Fresno Famous
Posted on 18. Sep, 2007 by David Cohn.
Introduction and Narrative: Fresno Famous launched April 1st, 2004 when Jarah Euston moved back to Fresno from New York. In her early 20’s and feeling alienated from her home town Euston had no idea what Fresno had to offer in terms of night life or a music scene. That was the imputes of Fresno Famous, […]
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John Wilpers – BostonNOW
Posted on 15. Sep, 2007 by David Cohn.
Introduction and Narrative: BostonNOW, a free metro paper, launched in April of 2007 after Russell Pergament, most recently from AM New York, hooked up with Dagsbrun, an Icelandic media company, for financial backing. John Wilpers, former editor of the Washington Examiner, was brought on board to help shape the emerging free metro as its editor. […]
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Hotels and Travel Arrangments
Posted on 14. Sep, 2007 by David Cohn.
Coming to New York for the Network Journalism Summit? Don’t forget to make your travel arragnments soon, to keep the cost down. CUNY is trying to get a group deal for hotel rooms in New York close to the conference (Times Square) but Frankly, the rates on Hotels.com are better. We may have a group […]
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Jay Rosen — NewAssignment.Net
Posted on 14. Sep, 2007 by David Cohn.
Introduction to NewAssignment.Net: In the Fall of 2005 Jay Rosen, author of PressThink and NYU journalism professor, began playing with the idea for an organization dedicated to experimenting in online journalism. The concept stemmed from his experiences blogging since 2003 and general curiosity about the open source software movement — how groups of people online […]
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In Preparation for the News Innovation Conference
Posted on 13. Sep, 2007 by David Cohn.
Welcome! Below is the first post in preparation for the News Innovation Conference on network journalism. If you want to dive straight in, check out our introductory post on Baristanet. If you want to find out about what you can expect from this blog, read below the fold.
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Debbie Galant – Baristanet
Posted on 13. Sep, 2007 by David Cohn.
Introduction and Narrative: Debra Galant began her journalism career in 1977 and by 1998 was a New Jersey columnist for the New York Times. After the Times gave her column to someone else, Galant received the URL Debragalant.com as a birthday present from her husband. The next three months Galant spent starting a personal typepad […]
