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Politics–if you listen, stories will bubble up
Posted on 10. Oct, 2007 by Daniel Massey.
[audio:http://newsinnovation.com/audio/local_afternoon.mp3] Politics: Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake; Micah Sifry of Tech President; Mike Krempasky of Redstate. Moderator: Micah Sifry Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake: “What happened with the Libby trial is we had had so many readers interested in the case, stacks of court files, people saying conflicting things. We developed a group of people obsessed with […]
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Now Public and Ground Reports Info Session
Posted on 10. Oct, 2007 by Annaliese Griffin.
Merrill Brown, Chairman of Now Public interviewed by Rachel Sterne of Ground Report Organized, assigned citizen journalism We start with mic troubles… It’s better now and we’re off. Brown is addressing, “this whole business model question.” Says that Now Public just completed a $10.6 venture capital fundraising effort, not because they’re well connected or have […]
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Broadcast/Multimedia: A Whole New Grammar
Posted on 10. Oct, 2007 by Tanzina Vega.
Participants: Michael Rosenblum of Rosenblum Associates; Jim Colgan of the Brian Lehrer Show (WNYC); Mike Sechrist; Brian Conley of Alive in Baghdad; Robin Sloan Current TV. Moderated by: Steve Safran of Lost Remote 1:26 Safran welcomes the crowd. He has covered convergence media since 2000 for Lost Remote. 1:28 Safran says we have to talk […]
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What Do We Do Now?
Posted on 10. Oct, 2007 by Georgia Kral.
Jarvis facilitated the discussion on this one. The panelists, listed below, explained that we need new business models, smart ways to pay people, good web design. Featuring- Mark Potts of Recovering Journalist and Backfence. Potts said Backfence was the “Paris Hilton of all of this.” Debra Gallant of Baristanet.com, with 100,000 users.
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crowd sourcing…
Posted on 10. Oct, 2007 by Georgia Kral.
Crowd sourcing. Going out, talking to those you cover and running with what they suggest. Fort Meyers News-Press example of enlisting community….Fought a long costly battle in court with FEMA. Got the records on how the $$ was spent, flowed info into database and turned it to the public by posting immediately. The paper had […]
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WaPo buys ads for their bloggers
Posted on 10. Oct, 2007 by Georgia Kral.
A big sales force (Washington Post) selling ads for blogs and moving beyond it’s old school system? Jeff Burkett of WashingtonPost.com says promoting bloggers on their own property is a unique offering. WaPo not focused on local but national. It’s a cycle, he said. You’re promoting them and driving your traffic up. The ad part […]
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reverse publishing? blogs and print working together?
Posted on 10. Oct, 2007 by Georgia Kral.
The local pioneer panelists are all involved in print in some way. Jarvis calls it a “great irony.” Jarah Euston of Fresno Famous sold the site to the Fresno Bee and now the paper includes a page devoted to site content. Is the collaboration between online and print a testament to the inability of the […]
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jarvis and shepard introduce the summit
Posted on 10. Oct, 2007 by Georgia Kral.
jarvis introduces- 190 participants! there’s a lot of interest in this topic. “journalism can and must expand. only one way is to collaborate, pro-am…do things together more than apart.” -jeff jarvis This is the place of the best practitioners. The fondest hope is to talk about what’s next. it’s all about experimentation. first conference, bloggercon […]
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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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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 […]
