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Amanda Michael – OffTheBus.Net
Posted on 08. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Your work in networked/citizen/collaborative journalism. I currently work as the Project Director for OffTheBus, a new media collaboration between the Huffington Post and NewAssignment.Net. Previously I worked on Assignment Zero, and before that on political campaigns (Dean and Kerry) as well as at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. To the project I bring […]
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Pre-conference writeups, Keep Them Coming
Posted on 08. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
It’s never too late to send me your writeup. Here are six more I just recieved. Scott Clark and Dwight Silverman – Houston Chronicle Chris Tolles – Topix Mike Orren – Pegasus News Steve Safran – Lost Remote John Oppedahl Rob Neppell – N.Z. Bear Donica Mensing – Reynolds School of Journalism Amanda Michael […]
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Browse all the Writeups, Get to Know Fellow Participants
Posted on 05. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
The Networked Journalism Summit is only a few days away. In preparation for the event we asked you to answer some questions. Fifty-two, almost a third, of you have answered. I’m sure more will come in the next few days too. This is a chance for you to get to know who else is coming, […]
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Barry Parr – Coastsider
Posted on 05. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Your work in networked/citizen/collaborative journalism. I publish Coastsider, a news and community site for coastal San Mateo County — a community of 30,000 people, 30 minutes from San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Although I helped build Mercury Center and CNET News.com, I had never practiced journalism before I started Coastsider in 2004. During the daylight […]
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Alan Levy – BlogTalkRadio
Posted on 05. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Your work in networked/citizen/collaborative journalism. As CEO and co-founder of BlogTalkRadio, Bob Charish and I have created a platform that is currently allowing over 3,000 hosts to broadcast live call in shows online. This social broadcasting platform allows anyone to have a voice and say they’re peace. You don’t have to be Rush Limbaugh to […]
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Adrian Monck – City University London
Posted on 05. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Your work in networked/citizen/collaborative journalism. I run City University (London)’s journalism education programme, the UK’s biggest, with over 220 journalism postgrads. We have two projects that might be of interest: A doctoral collaboration with Sky News developing a group of citizen correspondents. Maintaining and developing a database of FOI requests in association with MySociety – […]
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Charlie Beckett – POLIS
Posted on 05. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Your work in networked/citizen/collaborative journalism. Charlie Beckett is doing Networked Journalism and thinking hard about it. He is an award-winning TV news and current affairs producer and programme editor who swapped the BBC and ITN’s Channel 4 News to found a new journalism think-tank called POLIS at the London School of Economics. Charlie Beckett is […]
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James Kotecki – Video Blogger, The Politico
Posted on 05. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Your work in networked/citizen/collaborative journalism. I started in January 2007 making YouTube videos in my Georgetown dorm room with a $60 webcam and an aging Dell laptop. I rose to quasi-prominence by critiquing how the 2008 Presidential candidates were using YouTube. After getting a lot of mainstream coverage for this, I’ve since graduated, interviewed seven […]
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Rick Burnes – Faneuil Media
Posted on 05. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Your work in networked/citizen/collaborative journalism. I’ve spent the last year and a half bootstrapping Faneuil Media, an online news startup. Initially, my partner Theo Burry and I focused on creating content for news sites using public data and open applications like Google Maps. Last year we broadened our scope with Atlas, a mapping tool that […]
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Simon Bucks – Sky News
Posted on 05. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Becuase of the special election taking place in the UK, Simon is unable to attend the conference. Your work in networked/citizen/collaborative journalism. I look after UGC on the Sky News website www.sky.com/news
