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NewsTools at Yahoo – The Conversations Continue
Posted on 05. May, 2008 by David Cohn.
Many of the attendees of the NewsTools conference at Yahoo were also part of the Networked Journalism Summit in New York. I tried to track a few of them down to find out what they are up to now and what’s next.
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Birthin’ Barista’s babe
Posted on 01. May, 2008 by David Cohn.
Via Jeff Jarvis I’m proud to say that this is one of the outcomes of the Networked Journalism conference at CUNY last fall: Baristanet and the Star-Ledger are joining to create a cobranded print guide to the Barista’s turf, Montclair, NJ, with content from both partners, Star-Ledger distribution, and shared effort on the advertising. So […]
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BostonNOW – Despite Growing is Shutting Down
Posted on 14. Apr, 2008 by David Cohn.
Via Lucas Grindley In response to the numerous e-mails I’ve gotten but haven’t had time to respond to, that headline pretty much sums it up. From every indicator, BostonNOW was heading in all the right directions. Circulation was shooting upward and revenues were following. Since I took over the reigns at the Web site just […]
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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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The Big Buckets
Posted on 14. Oct, 2007 by Jeff Jarvis.
Having never organized a conference, I was nervous about so many things before the Networked Journalism Summit we held at CUNY on Wednesday (thanks to the MacArthur Foundation). I think it went off well. Scott Anderson of Tribune put together a good collection of summary bullets. The students blogged the sessions at NewsInnovation.com and we’ll […]
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Dan Barkin – News & Observer
Posted on 11. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Your work in networked/collabrative journalism Last January, The News & Observer created a community publishing site called share.triangle.com. We already had a pretty good newspaper web site at newsobserver.com. We wanted to create a site that would give the community a place to have a conversation, to share information and opinion. Share, as it is […]
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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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Data Session
Posted on 10. Oct, 2007 by Doaa Elkady.
It’s 3.22, and the 15 black folding chairs meant to accommodate attendees of the data session meant to start 7 minutes ago are all empty. 3.23 – Attendee #1 walks in, asks a student what this data workshop is supposed to be about. Student answers: “I really don’t know, I’m guessing how to make technology […]
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Are we exploiting the people?
Posted on 10. Oct, 2007 by Daniel Massey.
A question from the politics discussion: We talk about citizen journalism. But how does a citizen benfit? “I get nervous when we talk of crowd sourcing,” said a participant. “That what we’re talking about is crowd harvesting. We have less money, we’re getting our budgets cut. Here’s free labor. It’s a cynic’s view, but I […]
