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.

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 a blogger and a newspaper are making business together. Bravo.

Debbie Galant announces the birth today:

Baristanet is again making news in the media world. This time, it’s our partnership with the Star Ledger (yes, the Star Ledger!) to create a print guide to Montclair. Last week, Baristanet founder Debbie Galant and Star Ledger editor in chief Jim Willse spoke about the partnership to a group of newspaper and web editors from all over the world.

The official matchmaker was new media evangelist Jeff Jarvis, who suggested the partnership during his Networked Media Summit in New York last October.

The co-branded 36-page “Explore Montclair” guide will have stories by Baristanet and the Ledger, and even a special Montclair crossword puzzle by Tony Orbach. It goes out to 70,000 readers on May 15. If you’re not a home subscriber, you’ll be able to pick it up at the Montclair Public Library and many other locations (more on that later.)

The ad reservation deadline is tomorrow. If you want to underwrite history, let us know right away.

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 over a month ago, some plans had made it live . . . just not my favorites.

Then the investors from Iceland quit paying the bill. I don’ t know much about that.

Read more: from Lucas Grindley and BostonNow itself.

Chris Densmore, Chris Peck and Leonard Witt spent a big part of  yesterday with our Northfield, Minnesota collaborators at Locally Grown, where the first Representative Journalismexperiment will take place.

Representative Journalism is Leonard Witt’s project to experiment in new business models of journalism. You can listen to the podcast where Leonard and the rest talk about the idea here.

Bringing technologists and journalists into closer orbit with other is one longterm goal of the Networked Journalism Summit, and several of NetJourn’s participants are now hard at work on an event in Silicon Valley to do just that. NewsTools2008.org is a project of the Journalism That Matters collaborative set for April 30-May 3 at the Yahoo! Sunnyvale corporate training center.

It’s an opportunity for journalists and programmers to share part of their cultures and find a common ground where they can build and develop tools that will benefit journalism and community.

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 format at The Young Professionals site includes blogs, photo galleries, forums, links to places to volunteer, calendars, etc. We’re engaging schools, community civic and ethnic groups, nonprofits, churches, etc. to help build their own networked sites and connect.

Since the summit, GroundReport has focused on international coverage and syndication. We’re syndicating content so that people can find GroundReport stories wherever they live online. One tool that helps people get GroundReport is our news widget, which works on iGoogle, Apple dashboard, Netvibes and Vista. We’ve also integrated with Technorati and are working to do the same with Topix and Daylife.

For groundbreaking international reporting, we are working with Columbia University Professor Anne Nelson, who studies new media and the developing world at SIPA. We’re looking forward to publishing her latest investigation of new media and development, creating an ongoing collaboration with her students and evolving GroundReport’s platform with her guidance.

One more addition, we’ll be part of Netvibes’ sponsored search results for Ginger, their new, more social news platform. You can find us in the press release.

It’s a very small project, I admit, but the CUNY Conference inspired me to start a new (hopefully, eventually, collaborative) blog: JournalismSchool.wordpress.com. The origins of which are detailed here.

From Current TV – We’ve re-branded our citizen journalism program as “Collective Journalism,” emphasizing the collaborative nature of our work, and we’ve begun to focus our efforts on producing group investigations from different contributors around the world.

We’ve been working in earnest to put several Networked Journalism ideas into effect; foremost has been getting our “Parade Partner News” pipeline off the ground.

Parade’s print pub is distributed by more than 400 newspapers nationwide. We’re working to deepen those partnerships online, as well. “Parade Partner News” is a chance for us to promote our partners’ reportage
and brands, help us better surround our stories on parade.com, and give our readers a deeper, localized well to draw from.

Our first foray was with our All-America High School Football coverage: Parade’s been picking and promoting top high school athletes for 45 years. In addition to our own coverage of these players, we invited our papers to share their local stories about our All-America players, coaches or program.

We then let our readers read, vote on and comment on those stories using tools from our sister site at reddit.com.

This “pipeline” is exclusive to our partners; that allows us to get them more attention then they might otherwise in the general Reddit, Mixx, or Digg story queues.

The next editorial features for which we’ll request partner input on are “What America Eats” (inviting partners to provide links to their healthy recipes or other features regarding healthy diets [or desserts, if
Janice K. decides to go that way, instead, with her in-book story], and “What People Earn” (inviting partners to provide links to their features re the job market in their area, career advice, etc.).

It¹s very much a process: we’re working closely with our Newspaper Relations Group, finding the appropriate contacts within our partners’ organizations, and addressing issues and inertia as we find them. In my mind, this is Win-Win-Win for our partners, our readers, and ourselves, so we’ll keep on working at it and getting better with each iteration.

We’ve got other distributed tools for the ProAm set in the works ­ and in Production ­ as well. I’ll be happy to share more if you’re interested in hearing about it.