Archive for 'Citizen Network'
Merrill Brown – NowPublic
Posted on 27. Sep, 2007 by David Cohn.
Introduction and Narrative: Inspired by user–generated sites like Flickr, NowPublic is a citizen journalism news network with contributors from across the world. As other legendary startups, it was founded in a garage by Michael Tippett, Leonard Brody and Michael Meyers in 2005. At the time the group believed there was no space on the net […]
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Lisa Williams – H2OTown, Placeblogger
Posted on 27. Sep, 2007 by David Cohn.
Introduction and Narrative: In February of 2005 Lisa Willaims started H2OTown (www.h2otown.info). She had recently left her job and wanted to get to know Watertown Massachusetts better, but decided to do her learning process in public. H2OTown also allowed others in the area to blog, creating a townhall atmosphere. It is what Williams calls a […]
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Jonathan Weber — NewWest.Net
Posted on 26. Sep, 2007 by David Cohn.
Introduction and Narrative: Jonathan Weber came to the University of Montana as a visiting professor after the bankruptcy of the Industry Standard where he was editor in chief. While there he became interested in the ongoing story of the Rocky Mountain region’s booming development. Local papers were covering specific stories and towns, but Weber thought […]
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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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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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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 […]
