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Lila King – CNN.com
Posted on 11. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Your work in networked/citizen/collaborative journalism. I lead the small group that focuses on user participation efforts on CNN.com. That includes CNNs new and very successful I-Report initiative, the reader commenting modules on CNN.com story pages and a handful of collaboratively produced blogs.
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Janice Brand – Helium.com
Posted on 11. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Your work in networked/citizen/collaborative journalism. I am VP, Content & Community at Helium.com, an international community of active writers who use social networking to rate each other’s work. Our writers range from newbie to published professional, all contributing to a growing trove of more than 450,000 articles on subjects ranging from auto repair to Zen […]
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A Collection of 56 writeups
Posted on 08. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
As Jeff Jarvis has noted several times, part of what makes this conference different will be the emphasis on next steps. To encourage that, we want participants of the Networked Journalism Summit to know each other, what they have done and want to accomplish. Half of the writeups below were reported over the phone by […]
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Scott Clark and Dwight Silverman – Houston Chronicle (Chron.com)
Posted on 08. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Your work in networked/citizen/collaborative journalism. At chron.com, the Web site for the Houston Chronicle, we began engaging readers in our coverage several years ago, sharing their photos and experiences in Houston’s flood of 2001, their opinions during the 2004 political conventions and election and their live experiences from the ballpark during the Houston Astros World […]
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Chris Tolles – Topix
Posted on 08. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Your work in networked/citizen/collaborative journalism. I’m a cofounder and CEO of Topix, which is a community site focused around local news. We enable people to comment on any of the articles we’ve aggregated from over 50,000 sources, as well as submitting, discussing or editing original stories or commentary about any town in the US as […]
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Mike Orren – Pegasus News
Posted on 08. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Your Work in networked/citizen/collaborative journalism. President and founder of Pegasus News, which launched in DFW in 2006. We’re a “panlocal” site, meaning that we deliver hyperlocal news and data on an entire metro area. We then customize that content for each individual user via a mechanism called “The Daily You.” We use a hybrid of […]
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John Oppedahl
Posted on 08. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Your work in networked/citizen/collaborative journalism. My experience has been in the newspaper business as a reporter, editor and publisher (Detroit Free Press, Dallas Times Herald, L.A. Herald Examiner, Arizona Republic, San Francisco Chronicle) so the closest I’ve come is in helping to develop two websites, AZCentral.com for The Arizona Republic in Phoenix and SFgate.com for […]
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Steve Safran – Lost Remote
Posted on 08. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Your work in networked/citizen/collaborative journalism. I’ve been writing about the topic since 2000 and have been evangelizing its message since before we even knew what to call it. (Do we know what to call it yet?) At Lost Remote, Cory Bergman and I have been “blogging since before blogging was called ‘blogging’” about networked journalism […]
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Rob Neppell – N.Z. Bear
Posted on 08. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Your work in networked/citizen/collaborative journalism. In 2002, I created the first blog ranking system, The TTLB Blogosphere Ecosystem, and have been active in blogs and new media ever since. I am the co-founder with Instapundit’s Glenn Reynolds of Porkbusters, and spearheaded the “Secret Hold” effort which resulted in the passage of the historic Federal Funding […]
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Donica Mensing – Reynolds School of Journalism
Posted on 08. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Main goal I think journalism has tremendous potential to help communities improve their capacity to act democratically, but many current practices simply reinforce an expert-driven, elite dominated political system. How can we use Web 2.0 technologies and a public-oriented journalism to empower people to strengthen and improve their communities, rather than remain stuck in interest-group […]
